Now Taking Orders for 2025

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Queens ship Monday through Thursday. If your order is placed after Thursday, it will not ship out until the following Monday to prevent queens being stuck over the weekend.

Our Italian Queens come from several producers in the Glenn County area of Northern California. All of our queens are mated.

Italian traits:

• Gentle and easy to manage (a good “beginner bee”)
• Prolific brood producers
• Highly hygienic
• Good comb builders
• Excellent foragers
• Excellent honey producers

Queen Replacement video featuring Randy Oliver, Watch here.

Queen Options

• No Option Added – No Marking or Clipping.
• Queen Clipping – These queens will have 1 wing Clipped.
• Queen Marking – These queens will be marked with a painted dot on her thorax ( Color will depend on the year ).
• Queen Marking and Clipping – These queens will be marked with a painted dot on her thorax ( Color will depend on the year ) and 1 wing will be Clipped.

Queen Orders of 8 or Less will be shipped in 3 Hole queen cages with attendants. Shipped in a envelope or small overnite box

Queen Order of 9+ will be shipped in Mini Cages with candy tubes in a bag under the queens. Shipped in a Screen Shipping Box with loose bulk bees.

Photo courtesy of Mike’s Professional Photography

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