We've been working bees together since 1995

Adam Finkelstein & Kelly Rausch

Adam Finkelstein and Kelly Rausch have been working bees together since 1995. They've been running VP Queen Bees since 2008.

Adam has a broad background in Agriculture and Biological sciences. Kelly is a Biologist at the NIH. She and Adam work bees, cross and evaluate queens and extract and pack their honey in the beautiful Catoctin Valley, near Frederick, Maryland, U.S.A.

VP Queen Bees received a SARE farmer grant from the USDA to research ways to select queen bees for mite tolerance. Using the Alcohol Wash Assay, we tested breeder queen candidates. Research Results

Read about us in the Washington Post article: "In Search of a Better Bee", 12/17/2011, and in a Local Newspaper article , 01/14/12.

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