Harvest Lane Italian Queen Bee

Description

Italian Queen Bee – Single Mated Queen with Attendants. This listing is for a single-mated Italian queen bee, shipped in a protective cage with attendant bees to care for her during transit. A single queen purchase is best for: Requeening an existing hive (replacing an old, weak, or aggressive queen). Splitting hives (introducing a new queen to a nucleus colony made from brood and workers of an existing hive) Important: A queen bee with attendants cannot start a new hive alone. If you are starting a new colony purchase packaged bees instead.

Features

• Temperament: Gentle, calm, and ideal for backyard beekeepers
• Productivity: Strong brood rearing and excellent honey production
• Foraging: Dependable foragers across diverse nectar sources
• Swarming: Lower swarming tendency than Carniolans
• Comb Building: Italians are quick, reliable wax comb builders
• High productivity and honey creation
• Very prolific
• Focuses on raising brood
• One of the gentlest and most docile of the bee subspecies
• Readily builds comb
• Readily enters supers
• Wonderful foragers
• Less tendency to swarm than other subspecies
• Strong cleaning behaviors
• Great for areas with continuous nectar flow and favorable weather throughout the summer
• Shipped UPS Overnight for safer handling
• Delivered directly to your door
• You will receive tracking details when your queen is shipped