2025 Bees - Package of Bees

Pickup date:  the morning of Wednesday April 23, 2025. Once you place your order, you will receive an e-mail to schedule your pickup time. Pre-order a package of bees now for the 2025 Spring beekeeping season. Bees are for pick up only. We do not ship bees. Pickup Date: To Be Determined (April 2025, possibly on a Wednesday between 10am - 1pm. Keep this in mind when placing your order).  We will send out an e-mail around the beginning of April 2025 so you can schedule your pick up time. One of the preferred ways to start a bee colony is with a package of bees. A package consists of approximately three pounds of bees in a wooden box with screens on two sides. Inside the box, there will be a can of sugar syrup and a small cage containing a mated queen hanging by a metal tab. Here, the queen is able to be cared for by nurse bees until the package is ready to be installed inside of a hive box.  We suggest that you hive the package of bees just before dusk on the day you pick them up f