During the 2025 season (likely starting late May or early June), queen availability will be updated here weekly. Purchased queens will be ready for pickup on Fridays at Walnut Farm Bees (Carlisle, PA) or shipping on Mondays (some Tuesdays). As available, you can select the mother’s genetics (breeder queen used). Queens color and appearance will vary, based on parent's genetics. They are available for pickup at our farm shop outside of Carlisle, PA. For pickup in Nicholson, PA, contact us prior to ordering. Queens are always marked with the year’s color–request in advance for different color (2025 is blue, 2024 was green, and 2023 was red).
2025 Mated PA Queen
$50.00
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OUR PA QUEENS are open mated in our bee yards in Pennsylvania and are based on our goals of being hardy, not aggressive, producing honey, and the mother (breeder queen) showing mite resistance. We are not suggesting that you do not treat or test for varroa--always test your varroa mite levels throughout the season as many factors can influence that. Our breeder queens are not treated (monitored and tested carefully), but our production colonies are treated with organic mite treatments. Each season we produce a limited number of high quality Pennsylvania mated queens, based on local and inseminated genetics from VSH Carniolan, VSH Pol-line, Golden West, Harbo, and hygienic Caucasian. The mated queens are open mated, so will be based on the mother, plus mix of the above stock and other colonies nearby.
QUEEN GUARANTEE – We want you to be happy with our bees, and if you follow our installation instructions, and your new mated queen is not laying within 15 days following your purchase, you can have a replacement queen or money back.
We are licensed and inspected by the state of PA to sell queens and bees.
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