UK Summer National Buckfast Nucleus Colony - May 2025 Delivery
£350.00
Order now for delivery in May 2025 - We will email you closer to dispatch to confirm the delivery date.
Six Frame UK Summer National Buckfast Nucleus Colony
The TOTAL cost of our UK National nucs is £350 inc free delivery across mainland UK.
These nucleus colonies are made up early in the season with top quality F1 Buckfast Mated Queen Bees. We will ship these to customers in May 2025.
Our bees are exceptionally calm on the combs. If you want a beehive in your garden, these are the Nucleus colonies for you. Our British bee nucs for sale are headed by incredibly productive queens with an excellent pedigree for disease resistance and honey production. If you are interested in buying beehives UK, starting with bee nucs for sale, will set you up for the season.
Our F1 Buckfast queens are grafted from selected F0 Breeder Queens which have to pass vigourous testing before we use them as breeding stock. We graft larvae from the F0 breeder queen frames and use these to raise strong and healthy virgin queens ready to be MATED IN THE UK. We flood the mating apiary with selected F1 drone mothers from exceptional lines to ensure excellent mating and to promote high quality genetics within our F1 Buckfast daughters. If you are looking for British Bees - this is the nucleus of bees for you. They are perfectly calm on the comb and produce significant honey crops year after year.
You will receive the following:
1 x 6 Frame Nucleus Colony of Bees
1 x Paynes Poly Nuc
1 x Ventilated Screen
1 x F1 Buckfast Mated Queen (2025) marked Blue
6 x DN4 frames with bees (3/4 frames of BIAS)
Our bee nucs for sale will be available in May 2025 depending on weather conditions. Wondering how to start beekeeping UK? On our website you can buy beehives UK and bee nucs for sale. Our bees for sale sell out every year so if you want to buy bees check out our bee nucs for sale.
We will notify you two weeks in advance of availability of our bee nucs for sale for either collection or delivery orders via text message/email. We are now taking full payments to secure your order for 2024. We send the bees for sale in a used Paynes poly nuc.All bees for sale will be sent via RM Special guaranteed next day service using a ventilated screen cover to ensure they do not overheat in the post.
Delivered - 6 frame national nucleus colony in poly nuc - £350 - £50 deposit
Collected - 6 frame national nucleus colony in poly nuc - £350 - £50 deposit
Deposits are non refundable and full balance must be paid prior to delivery/collection.
Delivery/Collection
Quantity
F1 Buckfast Queens
All our nucleus colonies are headed by an open mated, F1 Buckfast queen. They are gentle in nature with a low swarm tendency and are capable of gathering a substantial honey crop. Our mated buckfast queens are marked for the season and arrive already in the nucleus colony. You do not need to introduce the queens once you receive your nucleus colony.
Price/Availability
Nucleus colonies are £350 each inc free Special Delivery with Royal Mail
What's Included?
When you a overwintered nucleus colony, you will receive the following:
6 x DN4 frames of bees (min 3 frames of brood in all stages - BIAS)
1 x 2025 F1 Buckfast open mated queen - marked Blue
1 x Paynes Poly Nucleus with ventilated lid and side feeder.
ORDER BEFORE 4PM FOR SAME DAY DISPATCH
Royal Mail Special Delivery
We send all of our live products using Royal Mail's Special Delivery Service
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Reviews
Excellent company to deal with.
Instructions for delivery day, installation and transfer of the nuc/colony was sent prior to dispatch. This along with videos on the procedure made the whole process very easy. The bees are very calm and plentiful. I suggest opening the hive entrance from behind the hive as the bees are in a hurry to get out. I called Laurence on a Sunday afternoon regarding a different purchase, he was very helpful and cared about my bee keeping success.
Outstanding company.
Ordered these with a hole they wouldn’t be sold out.
From the moment I ordered them, everything on the pre delivery video was spot on.
So happy with them and the customer services has been great too!
Very health happy bees and settled in well!
Already pre ordered 2025
Thank you