From Nationals to Flow Hives, we have nucleus colonies for sale to fit your beehive. Our calm, placid honey bees arrive with an F1 Mated Buckfast queen, 3 to 4 frames of brood in all stages and are securely packaged in a Paynes poly nuc. The perfect way to start beekeeping.
We supply top quality nucs for sale and mated queen bees
Before you receive your nucleus colony, ensure you have everything you need to start beekeeping. This includes standard national beehive with DN4 frames/foundation, beesuit, smoker, gloves, hive tool and hive stand.
You should also be ready to feed your nucleus colony with 1:1 sugar syrup.
1. BE PREPARED
Place nucleus on beehive stand in your apiary in the exact position where you wish to permanently site your bees. Open the nucleus entrance and allow bees to orientate to that position.
Leave bees in the nucleus for at least 24 hours but up to one week, before transfer to hive.
2. ORIENTATION
Remove nuc from stand and replace with beehive, filled with frames and foundation (brood box only). The bees will naturally gravitate towards the new beehive as that's where they have orientated to.
Fill all gaps within the brood box with DN4 frames and foundation and replace roof.
3. TRANSFER TO HIVE
In the UK, it is best practise to feed nucleus colonies once they are in the hive. Set up a feeder and feed nucleus with 1:1 sugar syrup to assist the bees in drawing out the frames and turning them into honeycomb.
Stop feeding when the bees are covering 80% of the frames in the beehive.
4. START FEEDING
Once the bees are in the beehive, you can start weekly inspections. Inspect the bees every 7 days and ensure they have sufficient space to grow.
Check to see if the queen is laying eggs and there is brood in all stages. Keep an eye out for swarm cells and ensure there is enough stores.
5. WEEKLY INSPECTIONS
When the bees are covering 80% of the frames in the brood box, you can add a super.
First place the queen excluder onto the brood box and then place the super above the queen excluder. This ensures the queen can only lay in the brood box and only honey is stored within the supers.
6. ADD SUPERS
In this video, I show you how to install a nucleus of bees into a beehive. Instructions are great but sometimes it's just a lot easier to see the process in action. Installing bees into a beehive is a really simple process. There are a few key steps and the bees do most of the work. Time it well and don't rush it.
How to install a nucleus of bees into a beehive
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Our overwintered nucleus colonies contain UK mated F1 Buckfast queens and are available between April-May each year. Each nucleus colony is treated over winter for varroa mites and they are shipped to our customers on a free, tracked Special Delivery service from Royal Mail. From apiary to customer in less than 16 hours!
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