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These Nucs are the perfect way to start your beekeeping journey, or to increase your apiary size. The 5 frame nucs will be headed up by one of our carefully selected and bred Buckfast queen bees. She will be marked Red (2023) and unclipped. In the nuc will be around 1.5 frames of stores and the remaining will be brood in all stages (eggs, Larvae, capped brood). We breed our queens to be highly productive, calm on the comb, hygienic and have a low swarm tendency.

At the start of the year we will carefully inspect, observe and examine our hives to select our breeder queen for the year. The grafts are then moved into a hive full of honey, pollen and nurse bees, to produce the best queen cells. Once ready they are moved to our queen mating yard where they will mate and start to lay. Once we have observed a good laying pattern, and only then, will they be used in our nucs.

These are national nucs on DN4 (self spacing) frames. All hives are routinely treated for varroa mites. Bees will be provided in a correx box if you purchase the 5 frame nucs and are able to be posted (additional cost) However you can buy them in a 6 frame Abelo poly nuc for an additional cost. Poly nucs are for collection only.

These nucs are entirely weather dependant in terms of when they are ready, but we will aim for April 2024.

5 FRAME FULL PRICE IS £260

6 FRAME POLY FULL PRICE IS £305

DEPOSITS ARE NON REFUNDABLE AFTER 1ST FEBRUARY,

The Bees can be collected from OX39 or posted for an additional £30 per nuc. They will be posted by Royal mail, next day, before 1pm.