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Black Mountain Honey - Your Trusted Source for Queen Bees for Sale
If you want to enhance your apiary with calm, prolific, and genetically superior queen bees for sale, you're in the right place. As we prioritise calmness throughout the breeding process, our mated queen bees are renowned for their placid temperament and prolific honey-gathering capabilities. Experience the transformative power of our queen honey bees and transform your beekeeping experience.
I’ve been keeping bees for over 30 years- and never have I had such gentle bees. These Buckfast Q are amazing, egg laying machines!
Martin Hutchinson
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Quality Mated Queen Bees for Sale
At Black Mountain Honey, we take pride in offering a diverse selection of queen bees for sale, catering to the varied needs of beekeepers across the UK. Our extensive inventory of queen bees for sale includes a range of renowned genetic lines, ensuring you can find the perfect queen to complement your apiary.
Whether you're drawn to the calm temperament of Buckfast queens, the impressive strengths of Ligustica, or the resilience of our Carpathian queens, we have you covered.
Additionally, we stock UK mated F1 Buckfast queens, providing you options to suit different climates and preferences. What’s our favourite queen bee for sale? We always fall back on prestigious F1 Buckfast Queens. They are truly exceptional for the UK climate.
With our commitment to quality and excellence, you can trust that each queen bee from Black Mountain Honey is meticulously selected and bred for optimal performance and productivity. Elevate your beekeeping experience today with our wide range of queen bees.
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Six Reasons to Buy Queen Bees at Black Mountain Honey
PREMIUM GENETIC SELECTION
Our mated F1 Buckfast queens embody some of the finest genetic traits from reputable UK and European breeders. With meticulous selection and breeding processes, we ensure superior genetics to transform your apiary and make beekeeping enjoyable.
GUARANTEED LIVE QUEEN BEE ARRIVAL
We guarantee your queens bees for sale will arrive alive and perfectly primed with vitamin-enriched fondant, ready for your bee colony transformation. Buy queen bees at Black Mountain Honey and if your queen arrives dead, we will replace it free of charge.
TRANSPARENCY & QUALITY ASSURANCE
Our mated queen bees are marked for the respective mating year. This transparency assures the age and origin of your mated queen bee, enhancing your hive management practices. It also helps you to easily identify the mated queen bee during inspections.
AVAILABILITY OF QUEEN BEES FOR SALE
With our mated queen bees available throughout the season you can rely on us to meet your beekeeping needs all year round. Pre-ordering in winter ensures priority access to the freshest queens available in the UK market and we offer the latest cut off for next day delivery in the UK.
MATED QUEEN BEES OPTIMISED FOR UK CONDITIONS
Our F1 Buckfast queens are bred using proven UK genetics and tailored to thrive in the UK's mild and damp climate. Handcrafted from carefully selected breeder queens with over four decades of refinement, our queens offer resilience and adaptability to local environmental challenges.
SWIFT & RELIABLE DELIVERY SERVICE
Take advantage of our next day delivery with a 4 pm cut off, offering unparalleled convenience and peace of mind. Orders placed before the cut off time from Monday to Friday will be shipped the same day via Royal Mail Special Delivery, ensuring your queens arrive within 24 hours.
Our new queen sorted out a very unhappy, unproductive hive. By the very next day the mood of our queen-less hive changed. They are back in business making honey!
Daniel Hayward
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Fast Delivery
Enjoy the convenience of the late delivery cutoff time. Orders placed before 4 pm Monday to Friday qualify for same-day shipping via Royal Mail Special Delivery. Rest assured, your queens will arrive within 24 hours, with Saturday delivery at no extra charge.
Customer Service
At Black Mountain Honey, our commitment goes beyond the transaction – we don't just deliver your queen bees; we support your beekeeping journey. We're dedicated to supporting your beekeeping journey with informative videos and accessible customer service via phone, email, or WhatsApp.
Quality Products
Our focus on quality is clear. We provide the best mated queen bees that money can buy. Our pedigree F1 Buckfast queens will give you the best possible beekeeping experience and have the power to completely transform your beekeeping experience.
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