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Queens for sale - 2019
PostPosted:09 Aug 2018, 12:06
by Sipa
We have Buckfast Mated Queens available. Bred by us in the UK.
Open for orders for 2019
Calm, gentle and productive bees. Well regarded by customers and bee inspectors.
We also supply virgin queens and overwintered queens.
To see more and place orders : http://www.honeybeenucs.co.uk/mated-buckfast-queen-bees-for-sale.html
Re: Queens for sale
PostPosted:10 Aug 2018, 09:14
by AdamD
Sipa,
Your website says that you do not bank queens - I would be interested to know how you will look after them if you have a surplus?
Re: Queens for sale
PostPosted:10 Aug 2018, 11:04
by Sipa
Queens are in 6 frame nucs until required for shipping.
We have 400 nucs and 400 apideas.
Re: Queens for sale
PostPosted:10 Aug 2018, 12:20
by AdamD
How have your mini-nucs/apideas been working for you this year? I tend to get some absconding when the weather is warm. This year it has been worse for me - even with a piece of queen excluder over the entrance I have lost a couple somehow!
Re: Queens for sale
PostPosted:10 Aug 2018, 12:29
by Sipa
We lose the odd one but it's not an issue. We keep them in dappled shade so they get the stimulation of light but not intense heat from the sun. Seems to work for us. The key is not to let them get overstocked.
I also know beekeepers who keep them completely in the open without issues.