3 lb Package Bees with Mated Queen

*Local Pick up Only* Estimated Pickup Day Sunday April 27th, 2025 (this may change as the season progresses).
We do not ship bees. Follow our FB page for updates!!! We cannot contact each individual person. If you do not use FB, please send us your email and phone number, and we will contact you if there’s a change.

3lb packages of live bees WITH a mated queen (but not marked). Italian-Carniolan hybrid bees are great to work with in the apiary. Gentle, they build up fast in the spring for honey production. Queens come un-marked (we sell the marking tools though). A marked queen teaches you to only look for a dot, never developing your queen ID technique. With some practice, you can spots queens quickly and easier (if it was easy, everyone could do it).

Packages come from Wilbanks Apiaries in Georgia. Producers of some of the best queens and packages available on the market, these bees are picked up by us and driven home, monitored the entire way. Packages are collected by beekeepers the next day, meaning they are not in cages for very long before you receive them.

Installing them is super easy. Here is our youtube video of the process and more. CLick for our youtube video of how we install packages

*Pro Tip – Feed them sugar water or Pro Sweet, especially in the beginning. They will draw out comb much, much….. much faster. It takes @8 lbs of capped honey to make 1 lb of wax. Don’t stop feeding until they have all of their brood boxes with comb built and are ready for a honey super.

Attend our free field days each month. Get hands on education and ask your questions. It’s the 3rd Saturday of each month. The following Sunday is for advanced beekeeping.