Packages are on hold due to the severity of the bee losses across Canada (50-100%). We have 5 frame nucs available for sale.
First time in Canada - All Canadian Bee Package
Keep it Local!!
Prices include shipping to the listed cities.
If you don't see the city/town, please send me an email and I will get information.
Our bee packages include:
- 1 kg of Canadian bees
- Queen Bee from the spring of the current year with attendants in her own cage
- Food for the journey
- Packaged in a Pro Nuc Bee Bus
About the packages:
- The bees will be packaged 24 hours in advance of transport, thereby reducing transport stress
- The queen is from a Canadian mother queen that is picked from the best of her bunch.
- The Canadian queen is known for her vitality, calmness and honey production. These characteristics will reflect into the personality of the hive.
- There is a greater acceptance of the queen into the hive because the queen is from the offspring of a similar Canadian blood line queen.
- All the juvenile worker bees in the package are from this Canadian blood line queen.
- A first year queen is most productive in her first year
- A calm hive is very important for new beekeepers that are apprehensive about beekeeping.
- The Bee Bus is easily transportable anywhere in Canada (shipping options available)
- All worker bees are raised in southern Calgary
- Packages reduce the risk of cross hive disease contamination
- Bees will be treated for mites and nosema
- Prices include delivery to Calgary, Red Deer and Edmonton
The apiary is fully Alberta Government stamped for approval to ship bees across provincial borders.