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Mated queen bees

Beautiful Italian mated queen
This Italian queen is from our spring collection. She has been open mated and is starting to show her best features. Calm but busy and holding her hive together beautifully as she moves around laying her eggs.

Make an order enquiry

Our Mated queen bees are available for order. If you’d like to enquire or start the order process, please fill out the form below.

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Price
$50 (Price is per item, excluding GST, and in NZD)
Order size
1 to 1000
Available types
  • Italian Queens
  • Kiwi Hybrid Queens
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Mated queen bees produce lots of brood, quickly. Our queens are productive, reliable and consistent, with a good brood pattern.

We only cage and sell queens that show a good sealed brood pattern, so they have a low likelihood of becoming drone layers. Our queens are productive, reliable and consistent, as we wait 3 to 4 weeks before caging. The mated queens shipped to you are our best quality, hand-selected queens.

Our queens are open-mated, also known as naturally mated.

Queens are carefully selected for their:

  • genetic diversity
  • sealed (capped) brood pattern
  • productivity
  • calm temperament
  • hygienic behaviour
  • queen longevity
  • anti-swarm behaviour
About our Mated queen bees

Italian queens

We’re proud of the characteristics of our Italian queens. The hives they lead are easy to work, productive and demonstrate hygienic behaviour. Their fast brood-building is particularly effective for hives for pollination or honey production.

Kiwi Hybrid queens

These bees retain the good characteristics of the Italian but have some Carniolan traits such as smaller overwintering clusters and fast spring build up. Their colour is less yellow/brown and shows distinctive striping on the abdomen.

Ordering Mated queen bees

Order

Use the order form to place your order. We want to meet your needs, so let us know your preferred delivery time frame and any special instructions you have. We’ll be in touch within one working day to let you know availability. 

Once we’ve agreed on a plan for delivery and what you need, we’ll confirm your order. 

Payment and delivery information

Payment

We’ll send an invoice for payment closer to the delivery date, before the bees are shipped. 

Pricing

Prices exclude GST and packaging and postage

Delivery

We can deliver almost anywhere in New Zealand overnight so wherever you are, you can benefit from our decades of experience in bee-keeping and breeding. 

All queens are delivered by overnight courier and we use the last delivery of the day to minimise time out of the hive. We post queens Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday to avoid any weekend delays.

Your queens are sent in a cage with escort bees and food and we’ll send you the courier tracking number once the queens are sent. 

Your mated queen bees can go into the hive and start laying straight away.