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Queen bees, nucs, and packages
Queens and Queen Cells
5 Frame Nucs – Best of both worlds! Early nucs, and a local queen for the winter
5 Frame Nucs – Best of both worlds! Early nucs, and a local queen for the winter
- 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 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 - proven to increase your chances of making it through our local winter conditions.
5 Frame Nucs – Best of both worlds! Early nucs, and a local queen for the winter
5 Frame Nucs – Best of both worlds! Early nucs, and a local queen for the winter
5 Frame Nucs – Best of both worlds! Early nucs, and a local queen for the winter
- Early nucs for the flow - We are taking a unique approach to how our nucs are produced. In order to get them to you early, we will be started them with purchased Italian queens and have the nucs ready by April 24th. This is a much easier deadline to hit with purchased queens. With our Maryland weather, mating queens in the spring (and doing a good job) is tough to get done before mid May with any consistency.
- Local July replacement queens! As an optional add on, we are discounting our local, Carniolan queens to $15 for July Pickup. 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.
March Package Bees
5 Frame Nucs – Best of both worlds! Early nucs, and a local queen for the winter
March Package Bees
- 3 lb Package Bees with an Italian Mated Queen Bee
- Pick-up from the farm in Mount Airy, MD. in late March, approximately March 21-24th.
- 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! One time in 10 years they were delayed by a week, never more than that!
- Packages last year sold out in January, so order early to ensure you will have your 2021 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 $20.