BUY summer nucleus colonies-SOLD OUT FOR 2025
5 frame nucleus colonies - Sold Out for 2025
Great for beginners that want to get accustomed to a smaller hive and successfully winter in 1-2 deeps depending on the year and what kind of equipment you are starting with. See this video for consolidating a two deep colony into a single deep before winter.
-Cost: $210.00= 5 frames of bees covering 3 brood frames, 1 honey frame, 1 frame pollen. See this video for transferring your nuc into 10 frame equipment
-Bees are sold in plastic 5 frame Pro Nuc transfer boxes. $10 deposit will be credited upon return.
- Queens come marked (2025=blue dot), mated queens from daughters of our best winter hardy, disease resistant queen lines (we are currently wintering Russians, VSH, POL, and Caucasians sourced from the UMN Bee Lab’s 2024 breeding program.) We will select the best survivors of these daughters to breed from in spring of 2025.
Selected from our best wintered hives for temperament, honey production, mite resistance and wintering abilities. They will vary in color. Mothers are 2024 daughters of the 2023-2024 breeding program from University of MN Bee Lab. Marked blue. ***Available in June 15th-July 15th. Pick up times/dates TBD upon ordering.