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Queens and package bees
Producers of mated queens, package bees and nucs across the country, with the lines they raise and how the bees reach you.
7 listings, checked one by one
Queen breeder
BeeWeaver Honey Farm
Family bee farm in Navasota, Texas, in beekeeping for about 140 years, breeding queens for resistance to varroa mites and the viruses they carry. Queens are shipped or picked up at the farm.
Navasota, Texasnationwide
Queen producer
Kona Queen Hawaii
Queen producer on the leeward coast of the Big Island of Hawaii, founded in 1975, which supplies queens to beekeepers across the country all year. Part of U.S. Honey Bee, LLC since 2016.
Hawaiinationwide
Queen breeder and nuc producer
Old Sol Apiaries
Oregon queen breeder raising survivor stock selected locally, as well as Caucasian queens, and selling nucs.
Oregon
Queen and package bee producer
Olivarez Honey Bees
Three-generation family beekeeping operation based in Northern California, with bees on the Big Island of Hawaii. It sells Italian, Carniolan and Saskatraz queens and package bees, shipped by USPS or picked up in Orland.
Orland, Californianationwide
Queen breeder
Strachan Apiaries
Northern California queen producer, certified as a producer partner for New World Carniolan stock.
California
Varroa-resistant queen breeder
VP Queen Bees
Breeder of varroa-resistant queens from VSH (Varroa Sensitive Hygiene) and Pol-line stock, working under a material transfer agreement with the USDA.
Nationwide
Package bee and queen producer
Wilbanks Apiaries
Long-established Georgia producer of package bees and queens, listed under Georgia Grown products.
Georgia