Danish Queen Breeders Association

Danish Queen Breeders Association was founded in 1921 with the purpose of ensuring sufficient healthy and gentle bees to the Danish beekeepers.

To ensure this, the association should work to ensure enough good queens for the Danish beekeepers.

A set of common breeding criteria makes it possible to exchange breeding material among Danish queen breeders. This ensures a large breeding pool, in order to avoid loss of important breeding characteristics.

The Danish Queen Breeders Association has an ongoing cooperation with other Danish beekeeping Organisations, the Danish Beekeepers, as well as the Danish authorities to insure the best possible conditions for the Danish queen breeding.

Ongoing collaboration with Danish researchers ensures access to the latest knowledge about diseases and pests as well as knowledge about the latest testing methods. This knowledge, among other things, serves the association’s purpose of ensuring peaceful and healthy queens for the benefit of beekeeping, both in Denmark and internationally.