Premium UK F1 Mated Buckfast Queen - Lutz Eggert Exclusive
£60.00
Premium UK F1 Mated Buckfast Queen - Lutz Eggert - Exclusive to Black Mountain Honey
Experience the very best that UK beekeeping has to offer with our Lutz Eggert F1 UK Mated Buckfast Queen Bees – bred in exclusive UK partnership with world-renowned breeder Lutz Eggert.
These queens represent the perfect balance of German precision breeding and UK mating excellence, setting the benchmark for quality, productivity, and temperament.
At Black Mountain Honey, we are proud to bring the celebrated Lutz Eggert Buckfast bloodlines to the UK. Each queen is grafted from carefully selected breeder colonies and mated under controlled UK conditions, ensuring exceptional adaptation to our climate and a genetic foundation trusted by professional and hobbyist beekeepers alike.
Why Choose Lutz Eggert F1 UK Mated Buckfast Queens?
Exclusive UK partnership with Lutz Eggert – available only from Black Mountain Honey
F1 hybrid queens offering outstanding brood patterns, productivity, and calm handling
True Buckfast genetics, renowned for balance between strength, gentleness, and honey yield
UK mated for local adaptation, ensuring resilience to British weather and forage patterns
Selected for minimal swarming and excellent disease resistance
Ideal for both expansion and requeening, producing thriving colonies that perform season after season
Exceptional Breeding Heritage
Lutz Eggert is internationally respected for his pure Buckfast breeding programme, developed through decades of genetic selection and performance testing. These queens carry that heritage into every hive, combining European breeding excellence with UK-mated reliability for consistently high-performing colonies.
Sustainable Beekeeping at Its Finest
Our UK mated Buckfast queens are produced using sustainable, ethical, and traceable beekeeping methods. Every queen is hand-reared, naturally mated, and marked for identification. This approach ensures genetic integrity and long-term colony performance without compromise.
Elevate Your Apiary
Whether you are building new colonies, improving stock temperament, or aiming for higher honey yields, Lutz Eggert F1 UK Mated Buckfast Queens offer a proven route to success. Their combination of gentle behaviour, prolific laying, and adaptability makes them the perfect choice for discerning UK beekeepers who expect only the best.
Choose excellence. Choose sustainability. Choose Black Mountain Honey – the exclusive UK partner of Lutz Eggert Buckfast Queens.
Quantity
Dead on Arrival
We will replace Queens that arrive dead on arrival ONLY if they are still in their SEALED cage and reported within 8 hrs of the FIRST recorded delivery slot. You will be required to take a video of the queen alongside a copy of your order number. All dead queens must be returned to us in their sealed cages.
We only offer our 'dead on arrival' guarantee when using the Premium Royal Mail Special Delivery option.
IMPORTANT DELIVERY DATES
To ensure you receive your queens at the right time, please select a date of DISPATCH. The queens will arrive the following day. If you select 'ASAP' we will send them as soon as they are available but queens that are ordered against specific dates will take priority.
Queens are forecast to arrive the day AFTER 'day of dispatch'. We are unable to guarantee the day of delivery.
Cancellations
ALL CANCELLED ORDERS WILL INCUR A £5 RESTOCKING AND PAYMENT PROCESSING FEE.
We work closely with our breeders to ensure we have a steady supply of queens and cancelled orders make it very difficult for us to accurately assess the needs throughout the course of the year.
Our payment processing facility on the website incurs fees regardless of whether the balance is refunded to the customer.
From Sunday 17th July 2022 all cancelled orders will incur a £5 surcharge. By placing an order on this website, you acknowledge and accept that any transaction that is cancelled, will incur a £5 cancellation charge.
Shipping Info
24hr Royal Mail Special Delivery (Pre 1pm). Signature REQUIRED. Queens are guaranteed to arrive alive. CANNOT be posted through letter box - £9.50
Queens are forecast to arrive the day AFTER 'day of dispatch'. We are unable to guarantee the day or time of delivery.
We guarantee the live arrival of your queens using ONLY THE ROYAL MAIL SPECIAL DELIVERY SERVICE (£9.50). If queens arrived damaged or dead, we will replace free of charge when paying for the premium Special Delivery service.
Please ensure your address is 100% correct. We cannot be held liable for any failed deliveries if the address is incorrect or you aren't available to sign for your delivery
Full Description
UK Mated Buckfast Queens - Now available for reservation. We ship weekly on a Thursday. Please select your date of DISPATCH below. The queens will arrive on the following day.
We raise these queens at our dedicated mated apiary, using F0 Buckfast breeder queens. Strictly limited in supply each year (circa 200 queens max).
ALL CANCELLED ORDERS WILL INCUR A £5 RESTOCKING AND PAYMENT PROCESSING FEE.
UK Mated Buckfast Queens are available between June - Oct
When ordering UK Buckfast Queens you will receive the following:
A marked, open mated, Buckfast queen in a slow release queen introduction cage. Queens are not clipped and we do not offer this service. If you order more than one queen, they will arrive in separate cages (along with attendant bees).
A5 introduction postcard detailing successful methods for introduction and QR codes for support videos on our YouTube channel. We cannot be held liable for any failed queen introductions. Bees are wild creatures and successful introduction is never guaranteed.
Orders will arrive in a ventilated cardboard container. Your consignment will require a signature on arrival.
On placement of order you will receive an email confirmation. On the day of dispatch, you will receive a tracking code which can be tracked at ROYAL MAIL.
Our UK Mated F1 Buckast Queens are available throughout June - Sept and are strictly limited in stock. Preordering is essential.
Our mated queens for sale UK are delivered by the postman on a RM service and are never in the postal service for longer than 24 hrs. We will send you a dispatch notification with tracking details the day before your uk queen bees are sent.
Our F1 Buckfast queens are open mated in the UK and are bred using UK based genetics so they are able to thrive and excel in UK conditions.
The queen bees for sale have a superb temperament so are perfect for requeening grumpy colonies of bees. Our mated queens UK have a low swarming tendency and create very little propolis. Given the correct conditions, these queen bees for sale can create upwards of 150lb of honey per colony, each year!
If you have any queries, please drop up a message using the chat function.
Mated queen bees are natural creatures and although we can advise you on how to achieve the best introduction success, we cannot be held liable for any failed queen introductions.
Here is a link to our YouTube channel on how to successfully introduce queens.
GTIN: 5065002450388
MPN: 5065002450388
Brand: Black Mountain Honey
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