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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 £2.00 off each queen.
- Buy 10 - 19 and get £3.00 off each queen.
- Buy 20 or above and get £5.00 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 £2.00 off each queen.
- Buy 10 - 19 and get £3.00 off each queen.
- Buy 20 or above and get £5.00 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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Fabulous!!
Great service!! Quick and easy. Queen arrived safe a secure. Will 100% use again when needed.
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Queen Purchase
Excellent service as usual. Stock availability was good, despatch communication great. Yet to be able to access quality of purchase but bought before and normally excellent
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Purchase of mated queen
Delivery, communication all spot on. However, the last time I purchased a mated queen was from Sipa. It was straightforward. The fondant could be eaten by those in the cage and also those out if it which worked really well and was successful. Honeyfields cage is all plastic so bees couldn't get out. I left the cage for the bees in the hive to acclimatise and then looked for a cap which I couldn't find and the only way was to slide out one side of the plastic. They could have just flown away but thankfully they did not, however they were totally exposed and I am guessing that the queen was attacked and killed as there is no sign of the mated queen a week or so later.
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Buckfast
Very happy with the quality of the Queen received, accepted in the hive and laying within 2 weeks. There was a problem with the Royal Mail loosing the original Queen, but another was soon posted by Honey Fields. Great communication and support by the team.during a slightly stressful time.
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Buckfast Queen bee
It is great queen bee and easy to install to colonie and start put eggs quickly , not aggressive.
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Arrive on time good looking Queens
Have purchased from you before and always satisfied with your products.