Place your orders Jan 1st - Apr 15th.
Deliveries will be made late April.
You must meet us: Delivery Dates & Times to pick up your bees and other products.
Also read our: Terms & Conditions
Delivery Dates & Times are subject to change. We confirm the Delivery Dates & Times with customers through a group email and text, so you must provide a email address, and text capable phone number when placing your order, so we can update you if they change. Check the Delivery Dates & Times page often. Or, call 907-360-8182 and listen to my outgoing message. Please add my cell phone in your contacts, and watch for my text messages or calls.
Deliveries will be made late April.
You must meet us: Delivery Dates & Times to pick up your bees and other products.
Also read our: Terms & Conditions
Delivery Dates & Times are subject to change. We confirm the Delivery Dates & Times with customers through a group email and text, so you must provide a email address, and text capable phone number when placing your order, so we can update you if they change. Check the Delivery Dates & Times page often. Or, call 907-360-8182 and listen to my outgoing message. Please add my cell phone in your contacts, and watch for my text messages or calls.
We strive to get bees to you in the best shape possible. Please adjust your schedule to receive these live insects. The more time they spend in a box the more they are stressed.
What is a Nuc?
A nuc (or nucleus) from us comes with 5 deep frames. At least 3 or 4 frames contain bee brood and eggs, in all stages of development, plus honey and pollen to feed the colony while in transit.
Our nucs include a young queen, that has gone thru two brood cycles with expert assessment and grading of her brood pattern before choosing her for sale. The nuc has workers and drones born from the queen mother in your colony. The workers and drones are already familiar with her, so there is no acclimation necessary for acceptance of the queen. Because your nuc is a mini-hive (a small version of a fully established hive), the queen will still continue laying eggs while the nuc is in transit. The workers in your nuc are in all stages of development, from nurse bees, guard bees, foragers and everything in between. A nuc colony can start foraging almost immediately, after transferring them to a regular size brood box in your apiary.
Our nucs include a young queen, that has gone thru two brood cycles with expert assessment and grading of her brood pattern before choosing her for sale. The nuc has workers and drones born from the queen mother in your colony. The workers and drones are already familiar with her, so there is no acclimation necessary for acceptance of the queen. Because your nuc is a mini-hive (a small version of a fully established hive), the queen will still continue laying eggs while the nuc is in transit. The workers in your nuc are in all stages of development, from nurse bees, guard bees, foragers and everything in between. A nuc colony can start foraging almost immediately, after transferring them to a regular size brood box in your apiary.
Be ready to feed pollen substitute and lots of 1-1 Syrup. If you don’t you will kill your NUC. Also, keep the box for next year.