Overwintered Queen Bees For Sale

Our Buckfast Queens have been selected over many years, by cross breeding and natural open mating to create a queen which produces hard working, gentle, calm on the comb bees. 

Our bees are proven to survive the winter in small colonies and get through the coldest months on small rations. They build up quickly in the spring and are great forgers.

These queens are from late summer of 2024 (marked green) which have gone through the winter successfully. They will be dispatched from around late April 2025 when we get night time temperature of over 10 degrees. Collection is possible by arrangement.

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2024 Mated UK Buckfast Overwintered Queens
£98.00
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Berkshire Bees Reviews.

  • Queen Bee

    ★★★★★
    Ordered a queen from Berkshire Bees and got a message as to when it was being dispatched. The Lady arrived on a next day delivery service as I was told and is now in the hive and looks very good! Had a bit of problem with their emails going to spam, so check your spam folders. But all good at the end. I will use these beekeepers again.

  • New Bee Keeper

    ★★★★★
    Really friendly and informative for someone like me who is a new bee keeper. The bees themselves are very calm, settled in really quickly. The nucleus had lots of bees, lava and eggs so all looking really good, healthy marked queen who seems to be very productive.

  • Highly Recommend

    Brilliant reintroduction to beekeeping! I got my nucleus in late April and housed them into the hive and filled it with undrawn frames, loads of calm bees. Since then they’ve just gone from strength to strength and in total they have drawn out another full brood box, drawn out six supers and filled the lot with honey. No signs of swarming and no stings, lovely bees to work with and a bumper honey harvest. Would highly recommend Berkshire Bees.

  • Excellent Service

    ★★★★★
    Ordered an overwintered nuc from BB and was disappointed that there were none left but I was put onto cancellation list and now happy to say I was contacted later in the year and have a nuc of bees. This year for my I have placed my order early as the overwintered nucs seem to run out quickly. They explained everything to me about settling in the bees and what I needed to do. Very helpful guy and on the end of the phone if needed at any help! Glad to say my bees are loving their new home in the Chilterns. I would recommend these guys if you are looking to buy bees.

  • Top notch knowledge

    ★★★★★
    I bought a full hive and their set up service. They arranged a day with me and arrived with the hive and some other equipment I bought from them. They set up the hive and spent the morning going through the basics of beekeeping, which was fantastic. Bees are doing great in Berkshire countryside!

    Hope to use them again this year. Knowledgeable guys.