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We are Excited to Announce that we will have
Top Bar Nucleus colonies coming this Spring.
Reserve your bees now
We will have a limited number of the “ Nucs†Available.
This is a unique opportunity to get great bees in an established mini hive. What this means is that instead of buying a "package of bees", you can get a Golden Mean Top Bar nuc, that will have 5-7 combs of brood, pollen and nectar and a strong established colony of bees. You will transfer the combs and the bees into your Golden Mean hive.
Here are the specifics:
Carniolan Bees
Bars will only fit our Golden Mean hives (18" length bars).
5-7 bars of brood, pollen, nectar
Estimated Delivery Date : May 21st
Pickup Location: Denver or Boulder area
(more details will be sent closer to time)
Golden Mean Top Bar Nucs
$190 - Order Here- Top Bar Nuc
Any questions please contact
karen@backyardhive.com
What is the advantage of getting a Nuc verses a Package of Bees?
Nucs, or nucleus colonies, are small honeybee colonies created from larger colonies. The nucleus name is derived from the fact that a nuc hive is centered on a queen, the nucleus of the honeybee colony.
Each year the bee packages come early and in Colorado we often experience spring snow storms. Bees in a package don't have comb to keep them warm, and if we have an early spring snowstorm the bees don't always survive that cold snap. Last year many of the packages died because the packages arrived in early Spring and we had two weeks of snow and rain.
The Nucs will have an established, laying queen, 5-7 combs of brood, nectar and pollen and you will get to keep the Nuc box for swarm catching or using for combs when you work your hive.
A nuc has bees that are related to each other and to the queen. There is brood which will give them a good boost in population and the queen has been proven in a nuc; she is laying.
Packages are normally shook from several hives and a bred queen in a cage is then added. The risk is that the bees will kill the caged queen upon her release, in a nuc, the colony has already accepted the queen.
If you want to learn more about the difference between a nuc, a package of bees and a swarm, click here to read more:
Obtaining Bees For Your Hive
What are the genetics and health of the bees?
We are working with Benjamin Schneider of Prairie Wind Bee Supply out of Wyoming. They have been working with a long time bee breeder in the business for over 36 years. Two years ago we got packages from them and the bees did very well for people.
"We here at Prairie Wind Bee Supply are suppliers of well-bred Carniolan and Italian honey bees. We work closely with our northern California breeder to provide quality hygienic bees. We work with the Bee Informed Partnership team ( www.beeinformed.org) to select our breeder queens for producing our excellent honey bees. Our bees are well suited here in the mid west, and are very hardy and resilient. They are excellent honey producers and also do well in treatment free environments. They are gentle and overwinter well here in CO and WY. We have worked with this line of bees for more than 4 years now and have achieved nothing but excellence from them. Feel free to ask any further questions you may have! " Benjamin Schneider, CEO of Prairie Wind Bee Supply
BackYardHive will be covering installing a nuc in our Beginner. Session I Bee classes in Boulder and Carbondale.
See our classes listed below or click here Bee Classes
Picking Up your Bees
You will get to keep the Nuc Box the bees come in to catch swarms or to use when you work your hive to place combs in
Once we get more information from the supplier
about a specific time and location we will send out
an update to everyone.
Bees MUST be picked up on the delivery day.
We cannot (and will not) hold live bees in
nucs. If you cannot be there on the
delivery day, you will need to find someone
who can pickup the bees for you.
The Prairie Wind or BackYardHive.com are
not responsible for weather on the day
the bees are delivered or for the survival of the bees
once they are picked up.
Order now if you want bees.
Many package suppliers are saying they will probably sell out soon this year due to high demand!
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