Jolanta UK Mated Queen

24hr Royal Mail Special Delivery (Pre 1pm). Signature REQUIRED. Queens are guaranteed to arrive alive. CANNOT be posted through letter box - £9.50

Queens are forecast to arrive the day AFTER 'day of dispatch'. We are unable to guarantee the day or time of delivery. 

We guarantee the live arrival of your queens using ONLY THE ROYAL MAIL SPECIAL DELIVERY SERVICE (£9.50). If queens arrived damaged or dead, we will replace free of charge when paying for the premium Special Delivery service.

Please ensure your address is 100% correct. We cannot be held liable for any failed deliveries if the address is incorrect or you aren't available to sign for your delivery.

We will replace Queens that arrive dead on arrival ONLY if they are still in their SEALED cage and reported within 8 hrs of the FIRST recorded delivery slot. You will be required to take a video of the queen alongside a copy of your order number. All dead queens must be returned to us in their sealed cages.

We only offer our 'dead on arrival' guarantee when using the Premium Royal Mail Special Delivery option.

All queens sent using RM 24 ARE NOT COVERED IF THEY DIE WHILST IN TRANSIT, REGARDLESS OF ANY DELAYS INCURRED WHILST WITH THE COURIER. 

Queens are forecast to arrive the day AFTER 'day of dispatch'. We are unable to guarantee the day of delivery. 

ALL CANCELLED ORDERS WILL INCUR A £5 RESTOCKING AND PAYMENT PROCESSING FEE.

We work closely with our breeders to ensure we have a steady supply of queens and cancelled orders make it very difficult for us to accurately assess the needs throughout the course of the year.

Our payment processing facility on the website incurs fees regardless of whether the balance is refunded to the customer.

From Sunday 17th July 2022 all cancelled orders will incur a £5 surcharge. By placing an order on this website, you acknowledge and accept that any transaction that is cancelled, will incur a £5 cancellation charge.

Jolanta UK Mated Queen

You cannot specify a delivery date for Jolanta queens. We receive a delivery once a week and they are generally delivered to our customers on a Wednesday/Thursday

You will receive a tracking notification on the day they are sent. Someone needs to be in to sign for the delivery when it arrives.

They are incredibly gentle and productive queens produced by Jolanta - the head of Murray McGregor's queen rearing unit.

ALL CANCELLED ORDERS WILL INCUR A £5 RESTOCKING AND PAYMENT PROCESSING FEE.

The Jolanta UK mated queens are bred from selected mothers which derive from high scoring colonies within Murray McGregor's UK operation (over 5000 colonies).

With a leaning towards Carnica genes, but locally crossed to add hybrid vigour and toughness. Some lines are from Buckfast stock and all queens are open mated so the mix of genetics is diverse. These are purposely not pure bred lines, but highly selected from a wide range of colony genetics that have been proven themselves in the most challenging situations.

If queens are available sooner, we will provide tracking details on an email the day before arrival. Queens can be safely kept in hive supers in their sealed cages until required.

UK Mated Jolanta Queens are available between June - Oct

When ordering UK Mated Jolanta Queens you will receive the following:

A marked (yellow for 2022), open mated, UK Mated Jolanta Queen in a slow release queen introduction cage. Queens are not clipped and we do not offer this service. If you order more than one queen, they will arrive in separate cages (along with attendant bees).

A5 introduction postcard detailing successful methods for introduction and QR codes for support videos on our YouTube channel. We cannot be held liable for any failed queen introductions. Bees are wild creatures and successful introduction is never guaranteed.

Orders will arrive in a ventilated cardboard container. Your consignment will require a signature on arrival.

Queen orders must be separate from any other products on our website to ensure postage is calculated correctly.

On placement of order you will receive an email confirmation. On the day of dispatch, you will receive a tracking code which can be tracked at ROYAL MAIL.

We not only provide top quality mated queens from proven breeders within the EU and UK but offer unrivalled support in terms of customer service and our YouTube channel.

We stock UK Mated Jolanta Queens from the UK’s largest bee farmer, Murray McGregor and have exclusive partnerships with some of the best breeders in Europe.

Our UK Mated Jolanta Queens are available throughout April - Sept and are strictly limited in stock.

Our UK Mated Jolanta Queens are delivered by the postman on a RM service and are never in the postal service for longer than 24 hrs. We will send you a dispatch notification with tracking details the day before your uk queen bees are sent.

​Our UK Mated Jolanta Queens are able to thrive and excel in UK conditions.

​The queen bees for sale have a superb temperament so are perfect for requeening grumpy colonies of bees. Our UK Mated Jolanta Queens have a low swarming tendency and create very little propolis. Given the correct conditions, these queen bees for sale can create upwards of 150lb of honey per colony, each year!

If you have any queries, please drop up a message using the chat function.

Mated queen bees are natural creatures and although we can advise you on how to achieve the best introduction success, we cannot be held liable for any failed queen introductions.

Here is a link to our YouTube channel on how to successfully introduce queens.

https://youtu.be/KgzZ7Ik2Msk

Here is a link to our YouTube channel on how to successfully introduce queens.

Murray McGregor on the make up of genetics in the UK Mated Jolanta Lines:

'Its more complex than that.Bottom line is that our stock is 'good bees' based rather than a particular strain. MUST meet her criteria before Jolanta allows them into the unit and very quick to evict again if there is something she does not like (ie..more than 3 cells of chalk in the hive? Offski.... back to the field to work.)

We have a preference for carnica derived bees in our own unit, but Jolanta maintains a range of breeder queens (c50) and we can supply Carnica, Buckfast, or Amm...grafted from such queens but open mated to a spectrum of our selected drones (plus a few interlopers...cannot be avoided).

We are strong believers in diversity of genetics in the mix to give the population resilience and vigour. So..we can supply any of these types of queen.

Demand splits down roughly at 60% carnica, 35% Buckfast 5% Amm. Probably reflects the north and west concentration of demand where the bees that thrive in marginal conditions are more popular...if our base was more SE England I think the Buckfast carnica proportion would reverse. Amm is mainly popular in the 1's and 2's market...its 5% of the queens but probably more than 30% of the customers.'