Mated Queen Bees From Black Mountain Honey
Do you want to discover what it's like to get mated queen bees from Black Mountain Honey and introduce them into your beehive? This blog post will detail the full process on how to order, receive and get your queens into your hive from start to finish.
Ordering Process
It could not be simpler! Just follow the link below, with BMH's new website the process of ordering the queens that you require is so simple, with multiple strains of queens available through out the season. I'm sure BMH can supply what you are looking for!
Delivery date vs Dispatch Date
Make sure you note that the date that you are choosing is the date of dispatch, not the date of delivery! I only point this out as that is exactly what I did, but with a quick email to Laurence my order was put right.
Early Season Availability
I am a Buckfast man and as those of you that have been following my blogs this year will know that I am on a year of growth, so with several hives on double brood early splits was definitely part of the plan. Due to the fact that getting queens to mate this early in the year successfully would probably lead to disaster, I made the choice to buy mated queens in.
This will also mean that if I wanted to build these colonies up and then split them later in the season and let them mate naturally, we would only have diluted the genetics by 50% not by 75% (this is a whole other topic of conversation). So the availability of early season queen bees for sale from a reliable source has given me the ability to get underway much earlier in the season that if I was to rely on UK mated queens.
Delivery
I received an email from BMH and Royal mail to let me know that the queens were on there way, now all I needed was the British weather to sort itself out! The queens were delivered on time and well packaged.
QR Code Instructions
On the outside of the envelope there is this great little feature, a QR code that you can scan that takes straight to the information that you need to introduce your queens. This is the page it directs you which gives you all the information you need to requeen a beehive: