Buckfast Queen Mated
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.
Swarming is one of the biggest challenges we face as beekeepers. Even with a quality buckfast queen, with a very low swarming instinct like this one, it would be a mistake to assume that they won't swarm. Swarming is natural reproduction for honeybees. These mated queens are bred by our Romanian breeder, they are all F1's and are naturally open mated and come come marked.
About QUEEN posting:
You are ordering for a week commencing date and our Queens are normally posted on Wednesdays*, we can delay and post later in the week, just make a note in the special instructions box as you go through the check out.
Whilst we will do our best to send the queens the week you request, there may be times when, due to poor weather, that we have a delay or have to offer you an alternative race.
Dispatch of your order will be notified by email so you know your order is on it way to you.
*We do email you on Tuesday to confirm dispatch date for the week.
Delivery options
- Tracked24 - £4.50 - no signature required.
- Guaranteed next day delivery - £8.00 - see NOTE below
NOTE - Guaranteed next day means you will get your queen the day after we post it not the day after you order it. It is also a service you need to sign for or the post man will take it back to the depot.
Please see our delivery information page for more information regarding the delivery of live bees.
A queen that is found dead on arrival will only be replaced if we are contacted immediately on the day you receive it, either by email or telephone. We may request you return it to us, replacement will not be made if the cage as been opened or tampered with. We will replace a dead queen once only, no refunds will be offered.
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.
