The honey bees for sale are properly mated queens from known and purchased Queen Mother stock that are grafted and mated locally. We verify the new queens laying patterns before selling them to provide a quality product.
If the honey bees for sale that you are purchasing are a 5-frame NUC, we offer different ways you can do this to allow for any budget.
- You can do a “BYOB” (bring your own box) for the most economical purchase, where you come to the farm and pick up your bees placing our 5-frames right into your own 5-frame or 10-frame box.
- The next level up includes an EZ NUC that you can pick up your bees in, simply close the entrance, tape the lid and you are on your way.
- Lastly, we also build custom wooden 5-frame NUC boxes (unpainted) that you can pick up your bees in. We will put a screen across the entrance, bring a ratchet strap and you are on your way. Don’t forget to move the bees into a 10-frame box and paint that box after you do.
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To be placed on the each month's List for 2024 NUCs, you must pay the $50 non-refundable deposit. Deliveries of NUCs are arranged on a first come, first deposit paid basis. NUCs are expected to start being ready late-April, BUT THIS IS WEATHER dependent.
5-frame NUCs are available in the following options:
5-frame NUC with frames - no box (BYOBox) $195 ea
Bring your 5-frame or 10-frame deep Langstroth-style hive body box on your prearranged date/time and we will put the frames of into your box following a brief hive inspection. NUC frames will include: 5 deep wooden Langstroth-style frames, drawn out wax comb on Plasticell foundation, honey, nectar pollen, brood and a mated queen of known genetics - Italian (naturally mated outside the Africanization Zone for gentleness and honey production).
5-frame NUC with frames & plastic box $225 ea
NUC with 5-frames in a corrogated plastic EZ-NUC box (pictured). NUC will include: 1 EZ-NUC box, 5 deep wooden Langstroth-style frames, drawn out wax comb on Plasticell foundation, honey, nectar pollen, brood and a mated queen of known genetics - Italian (naturally mated outside the Africanization Zone for gentleness and honey production).
Our Queens are naturally open mated and are actively laying eggs in your NUC colony when you pick up.
Our queen and queen cells for NUC production aim for stock that is gentle, easy to work with and build-ups abundantly for pollination and honey making. If you are a beginner, hobbyist or if you are a seasoned commercial beekeeper, our NUCs will be just right for you!
Queen Cells & NUCs are always in limited quantities based on the season. Please pre-order yours early, so we can be sure to reserve your needs as soon as possible.
NUCs cannot be picked up until final payment has been received by GreenView Aquaponics.
GreenView Aquaponics Family Farm and Apiary is based in Cape Coral, FL on SW Florida's coast and producing Queen Cells & NUCs for sale from April to Oct/Nov.
Italian Queens are known for producing hives that have a high volume of brood year-round. The queens tend to continue to lay eggs regardless of weather, nectar or pollen conditions and many beekeepers, who pollinate in early spring, prefer the Italian genetic stock. Since Italian queens produce large hive populations, it’s very important to keep the colony well fed throughout colder months when bees are unable to forage or periods with high amounts of syrup or honey consumption. Italian Queens will have mixed coloring when they emerge since we allow for healthy, open mating by purchasing our queen mothers from open mated stock N of I-4. They have many fine qualities: the queens are exceptionally prolific, known for a fast spring buildup, gentleness and honey production. From New Beekeepers to Commercial Pollinators and Honey Producers, you can be confident that when you purchase our Queen Cells, you are not only getting a high quality Queen cell with great genetics, but you are getting the benefits of a high-quality control process: from breeder queen selection to colony feeding (to produce quality royal jelly and queen cells), to grafting, incubating and finally getting the queen cells to you. We do all we can to ensure quality and care each step of the process!
Queen cells & NUCs are always in limited quantities based on the season. Please pre-order yours early, so we can be sure to reserve your needs as soon as possible
We do not have honey bees for sale from our bee removals!
The honey bees that come to the farm from bee removals are quarantined for a period of time to allow us to monitor them for any pests or diseases as well as temperament. In most cases, we have to re-queen these colonies to help dilute the africanized traits that are common in our region; therefore. they are not for sale.
