Buckfast Mated Queen

Our Buckfast Queens are bred from the best quality Danish breeder queens. They are raised and mated in our UK mating station in Andover, Hampshire. As with all our queens they are marked and supplied in a queen travelling and introduction cage along with attendant worker bees.

These top quality queens are superb honey gatherers. They build up early in the season to make strong low swarming colonies. With a good resistance to disease and gentleness on the comb they are the ideal bee to work with.

You can learn more about the Buckfast Queen as well as different queen strains here.

About delivery & Ordering

Select the week you require the queens posted and then select the day you would like them delivered. 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 your order or advise that we may have to post on a different day to the one you have requested.   

Dispatch of your order will be notified by email so you know your order is on it way to you.

Delivery options

• Tracked 24 - £4.95 - no signature required.
• Guaranteed Next Day no time specified, signature required £8.00
• Guaranteed next day by 1pm delivery, signature required £9.50
• Please note under the new Windsor Agreement we can no longer ship live queens or nuc to Northern ireland.

NOTE - Guaranteed next day means you will get your queen the day after we post, 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. If you cannot be home to sign for your order please select Tracked 24 as your delivery option as this will be posted through  your letter box.

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.Please see our delivery information page for more information regarding the delivery of live bees.

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.