Buckfast Queen Mated

We are now taking reservations for 2026 mated Buckfast queens. £5 deposit is paid to reserve your queen, the balance will be invoiced when the queens are ready. Please do bear in mind the dates are provisional and the weeks may slip back depending on the weather. As soon as we have information on dates we will email you with an update.

*If you are ordering for 4th May onwards please specify the week you would like them in the special instructions box as you check out.

Lines - Our Buckfast lines come from various breeders: Heike Aumeier, Vadim Gosek, Bernd Brix, Andre Kopelin, Tom Wagner and Andreas Peter.

Queen Qualities - These queens produce bees that have an early spring build up.  They are excellend honey gathers but also show a lower swarming instinct.  A bee that is calm on the comb and easy to handle with a high resistance to diseases. They maintain a strong colony during the summer, their gentle manner allows the beekeeper to work with minimal use of smoke even opening the hive in bad weather.

These Queens are bred by our EU breeder, they are naturally open mated and come marked. You can learn more about the Buckfast Queen as well as other different queen strains here.

About Delivery & Ordering
First queens are available from early to mid April but this is heavily weather dependant. Whilst we will do our best to send the queens the week you request, we cannot always guarantee this however we do keep you informed of any delays by email and we also email when the order is dispatched so that you are aware your queen is on her way.

Delivery will be added to the invoice that we raise for the the balance due when the queens are ready, options will be as below*:

• Tracked 24 - £4.95 - no signature required.

• Guaranteed Next Day no time specified, signaurture required £8.00

• Guaranteed next day by 1pm delivery, signature required £9.50

Further advice about queen introduction can be found here. You may also consider using a queen introduction cage; this cage fits directly onto a comb with brood and increases the acceptance rate of the queens.

*Delivery costs are subject to change.  Further information about delivery can be found here.