Queen bees, nucs, and packages

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• Our Local Carniolan Queen Bees will be available the first week of May. Orders will be fulfilled in the order they are received.

• Queen Cells will be available weekly starting Mid April. 

• We are using over wintered Carniolian and Italian as well as Artificially Inseminated, Purebred breeder queens from Dr. Joe Latshaw as the backbone of our queen operation. Dr. Latshaw provides breeder queens to some of the best queen producers in the country. For additional information on his program, visit: https://www.latshawapiaries.com/breeder-queens

• No matter where you purchase you package bees, I highly recommend replacing the queen mid summer with one of our queen bees - to increase your chances of making it through our local winter conditions. 

• Nucs for the flow - We are taking a unique approach to how our nucs are produced. In order to get them to you early as possible, they will be started with purchased Italian queens and have the nucs ready by May 6th. This is a much easier deadline to hit with purchased queens. 

• Local July/August replacement queens! All nuc purchases are eligible for our locally produced Carniolan or Italian queens for $25 . We highly recommend this option so you go into the winter with a locally adapted, young queen. This increases your overwintering success, and you hit the following spring with a well mated, young (under a year old) queen, ready to take full advantage of our early flow.

• 3 lb Package Bees with an Italian Mated Queen Bee - Guarenteed

• Pick-up from the farm in Mount Airy, MD in March, March 21st and April 7th for 2023. 

• Pickups available from our partners in Northern Virginia, Eastern West Virginia, Upper  and Mid Eastern shore, and Southern Maryland. Please contact them directly for ordering. 

https://woodcampfarm.com/our-partners

• Early and on time - Our March packages are consistently some of the first available to be picked up in the country. Every year, once the date is set, that is when they are ready with rare exception!

• Packages last year sold out in January, so order early to ensure you will have your 2023 bees.

• We guarantee a live queen in every purchased package. Let’s look at your queen before you go! All queens must be inspected before leaving. If your queen needs to be replaced prior to leaving the pickup location, we will exchange the entire package. 
• If the queen has an issue within the first 30 days, replacement queens will be available for $25.