Native Queen Bees

Sold out. I will have more in 2016 from June onwards.

You can order in advance using the Paypal button if you want to get to the head of the queue for next year.

I have a few more queens available now and can post from 21st September.

I still have a few queens ready to post and if the weather is favourable I hope to get a few more mated in September.

Nice to meet up with a few of the Irish and UK beekeepers yesterday at Gormanston, Roger Patterson, Terry Clare, Aoife nic Giolla Coda, Thomas Ellis Ben Harden and many more.
Great lecture by Rob Paxton on varroa and virus.
The UBKA have got Tom Seeley as the headline act at the 2016 conference in March so that is a date to put in the diary.

Introducing a queen

I have most of my pre orders cleared and should have more native queens available from the week starting Monday 13th July.

I should have most of the backlog of preorders cleared by the end of June and will have more queens available from the start of July.

The bees are bringing in huge amounts of pollen from the Hawthorn at the moment.

Put 18 cells in the incubator today. The queens in these are due to emerge in 4 days time on Thursday.

The first small batch of queens are now in Apideas. 9/9 emerged.