| This will be your last chance to order Queens from us this year. We have sold out every month since May, with incredible feedback from customers - check out our social media to see reviews! These beautiful, calm Queens are prolific layers and beautiful to handle. A gentle bee, that produces good quantities of honey and has great overwintering tendencies. | | Why re-queen in September? There are many reasons we re-queen in September, but mainly because a newly mated Queen just wants to lay. Our Queens lay at a prolific rate, producing lots of young Bees for overwintering. There is also a lower chance of the Queen being rejected by the host Bees, this is probably their last opportunity for the hives survival before winter, so essentially, replace poor quality Queens with laying problems or aggression. The foot note to this should be, do not try to requeen a large aggressive hive without first splitting it into 3 or 4 frame nucs, then requeen each nuc.
Maybe you want to start suppling nucs locally in the spring? Preparation is key, ideally prep the nuc or hive 4 or 5 days before requeening by dispatching the old queen or splitting a large hive into viable nucs to overwinter, thus producing young colonies for the spring. | | |
Our Open Mated Carniolan Queens are available for dispatch on
September 12th.
1 Queen - £35 each
5 Queens - £32.50 each
10 Queens - £30 each
plus £7.95 p&p
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