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 Late April. Queen Cells are pickup only

• We are using  Carniolian 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 your  bees, I highly recommend replacing the queen mid summer. Most of the 'miles' put on a queen are in the spring build up. Queens born after that go into the fall and following spring with far more enthusiasm do lay a strong winter nest and come out strong in the spring, with much less swarming tendency than a older queens. 

• All nucs that we sell will have 2025 Carniolan queens we produce here.
• Queens will have never seen the inside of a queen cage!
• They will never have been shipped through the mail! 
• They will be well mated and made at the end of the spring build up, so she will be considered a young queen through summer of 2026!
• Nucs will be available Mid May, plus or minus a week depending on the weather in April.
• I have elected not to make nucs with purchased queens. It only allows the nuc to be ready a couple of weeks earlier and the performance of nucs with our queens is dramatically better then of purchased queens. 
• **I will not be selling overwintered nucs in 2025. 

• 3 lb Package Bees with an Italian Mated Queen Bee - Guaranteed to be alive and mated! 

• Pick-up from the farm in Mount Airy, MD in March 18 and April 11, 2025.

• 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 2025 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.