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Buckfast Queen Bee
Availability:
Stocked from April - September. Please be aware that early in the season queens are in high demand with limited supply.
Bulk Pricing:
Buy in bulk and save
£38.00
Imported 2025 F1 Buckfast queen bee, mated and marked accordingly for the year. Bulk discounts automatically applied, see below.
Developed by Brother Adam, who was in charge of beekeeping from 1919 at Buckfast Abbey in Devon in the United Kingdom, the Buckfast bee is a hybrid honey bee. A cross of many subspecies and strains selected for individual traits. Buckfast queens are very prolific in the spring laying lots of eggs building up strong colonies for honey production in the spring and summer. Lower tendency to swarm, Calm on the comb and very placid bees when handled gently. They are the perfect bees for hobby and commercial beekeepers alike.
Queen bees are sold in strict accordance with government legislation and the guidelines set by the National Bee Unit. This ensures that every queen you receive is healthy, robust, and compliant with the highest standards of beekeeping practice, please see our Sale Of Live Bees Policy. All queen bees are shipped using Royal Mail. Royal Mail is one of the only companies in the UK that handles and delivers queen bees, following all local legal requirements and safety standards. This ensures our queen bees are well looked after during transit, reaching you safely and securely.
All of our imported Buckfast queen bees are imported from an EU breeder who we have been working with for many years. All imports arrive in the UK accompanied with a health certificate, which is inspected along with the queens on arrival by the NBU.
Bulk Pricing:
- Buy 5 - 9 and get £1.00 off each queen.
- Buy 10 - 19 and get £2.00 off each queen.
- Buy 20 or above and get £3.00 off each queen.
All of our queen bees are dispatched by Royal Mail Special Delivery Guaranteed by 1:00pm and must be signed for. This is to ensure that the queen spends minimal time in transit.
Queens are dispatched in an introduction cage with several attendants to look after her on the journey. Click here to see our method of introduction. Please be aware that acceptance into your colony is not guaranteed.
Imported 2025 F1 Buckfast queen bee, mated and marked accordingly for the year. Bulk discounts automatically applied, see below.
Developed by Brother Adam, who was in charge of beekeeping from 1919 at Buckfast Abbey in Devon in the United Kingdom, the Buckfast bee is a hybrid honey bee. A cross of many subspecies and strains selected for individual traits. Buckfast queens are very prolific in the spring laying lots of eggs building up strong colonies for honey production in the spring and summer. Lower tendency to swarm, Calm on the comb and very placid bees when handled gently. They are the perfect bees for hobby and commercial beekeepers alike.
Queen bees are sold in strict accordance with government legislation and the guidelines set by the National Bee Unit. This ensures that every queen you receive is healthy, robust, and compliant with the highest standards of beekeeping practice, please see our Sale Of Live Bees Policy. All queen bees are shipped using Royal Mail. Royal Mail is one of the only companies in the UK that handles and delivers queen bees, following all local legal requirements and safety standards. This ensures our queen bees are well looked after during transit, reaching you safely and securely.
All of our imported Buckfast queen bees are imported from an EU breeder who we have been working with for many years. All imports arrive in the UK accompanied with a health certificate, which is inspected along with the queens on arrival by the NBU.
Bulk Pricing:
- Buy 5 - 9 and get £1.00 off each queen.
- Buy 10 - 19 and get £2.00 off each queen.
- Buy 20 or above and get £3.00 off each queen.
Our Buckfast queen bees for sale are naturally mated - Non laying or drone laying queens will be replaced if sufficient photographic evidence is provided at our request.
Customer Reviews
124 Review
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Two Buckfast queens
Early days but they have taken well. One replaces an older queen producing grumpy bees and the other was for a late swarmer which failed to requeen. Feeding now and hoping to get to strength for winter. Very promising.
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queen
Arrived on time introduced no problem now laying fine
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Buckfast Queen
Excellent service , arrived on time . Well package , Queen & worker bees in healthy condition . Fingers crossed the hive accept her . Thank you
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Buckfast Queen
I bought my first Nut from Honeyfields Bee Farm many years ago and would never go anywhere else for replacement Queens. The next day service is reliable and they will even guarantee a Saturday delivery if you need it. The Queens are fantastic and produce well tempered, productive colonies. I wouldn't go anywhere else.
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2x New Queens ordered early in the season
Bought 2x Queens in early April/May Both Queens have since swarmed even though both hives had adequate expansion room.
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Queens
Top quality queens, usually change a few of my queens every couple of years and always found these queens lay within days of being introduced and never had one rejected