Start your own honeybee colony with our high-quality honey bee packages. This package includes a marked or unmarked mated Italian hybrid queen bee in a small separate cage with a few workers to attend to her and 3 lb (approximately 10,000-12,000) honeybees. When properly installed into your hive this package is enough to start one colony.
Gardner Apiaries raises genetically densified Italian Hybrids which are Italian based bees crossed
with Carniolan and Buckfast bees.
Pick up dates are March 28-29 after 12pm. A package installation demonstration will be held on March 29 at 2pm (weather permitting). Feel free to join us and ask questions.
3lb. Bee Package - March 28-29 Pick Up
If you are a first-time beekeeper, marked queens are highly recommended for ease of identification during hive inspections when the hive contains 30,000 to 50,000 bees. This will enable you to identify that the original queen is still present and creating sufficient brood. Marked or unmarked makes no difference to the bee colony.