Mated Buckfast Queen - Apis Mellifera Buckfast

Our Buckfast Queens are bred from the best quality mating stock. These queens produce bees that a joy to handle.  The Buckfast has a gentleness tothem with a high resistance to diseases as well as having a lower swaming instinct. Colours of F1 buckfast queens can vary from very light to stripy to very dark. Buckfast bees are generally not big producers of propolis. 

The buckfast as a boundless capacity for foraging and build up rapidly in the spring. They maintain a strong colony during the summer and 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 high quality buckfast queen like this, with a very low swarming instinct, it would be a mistake to assume that they won't swarm. Swarming is natural reproduction and there simply isn't a honeybee with no swarming instinct at all. These mated F1 queens are bred by our Romainian breeders, they are naturally open mated and come come marked in cages with attendant workers.

About delivery & Ordering

First mated queens are available from mid April onwards. Whilst we will do our best to send the queens the week you request, we cannot always guarantee this however we will inform you of any delays by email.

Dispatch of your order will be sent by email so you know your order is on it way to you. These queens are usually sent out on a mid week but it can vary.

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.