Last BATCH of 2025 - Welsh Summer National Buckfast Nucleus Colony - May 2025
£350.00
Order now for delivery in May 2025
Six Frame Welsh Summer National Buckfast Nucleus Colonies are headed by a 2025 F1 Buckfast Queen.
The TOTAL cost of our Welsh 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 Welsh 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 WALES. We flood the Welsh mating apiary with selected F1 drone mothers from exceptional lines to ensure excellent mating and to promote high quality genetics within our Welsh F1 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.
These bees are UK bred Buckfast locally mated with selected Welsh drones. They carry all of the same traits as our F1 Buckfast nucs and they are very resiliant to pests/diseases and perform exceptionally well in the UK climate.
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 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.
Quantity
UK Mated 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 purchase a 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.
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Reviews
I received them on Wednesday and straight went their new home. Next day was a bit of pause in the rain, so quickly transferred them in a brood box, although I did not see the queen, but I saw eggs and gave them some syrup for boost. Today I checked them and on the first frame I saw the green queen. looks like they are settled, bringing in pollen and drawing comb. Very happy with my purchase.
Before I received them I sent an email to Laurence about a question, He literally answered in 7 minutes!
The Bee's arrived safe and sound on time. Placed Nuc in position and opened entrance after 30 minutes and allowed the Bee's to orientate to their new home. Unfortunately the next day was a washout, rain all day but Friday started bright and soon warmed up and at 13.00 I transferred the bee's to the brood chamber with no problems, bee's were calm and I saw the Green Queen. Fed them with 1 to 1 syrup Very happy with them and I have a great Nuc box to use in the future..