Where to Buy Queen Bees Online 2026: Supplier Guide

Quick Answer: Start with a local club pickup when you can. If you mail-order, pick a yard that ships overnight and puts a dead-on-arrival window in writing — a single mated queen often costs $70–$120 once freight is in. Amazon doesn’t sell live queens; the kit at the top is arrival gear, starting with the RyanDesign 6-Pack Plastic Queen Cage at $4.99 for spare intro cages.

Search “buy queen bees online” and you get farm catalogs, not a shopping list. Mann Lake, Olivarez, HillCo, Lappe, Heritage — each page sells its own stock and stays quiet about the next yard’s price, season, or dead-on-arrival clock. That is fine if you already know who you trust. It is a bad way to spend $80 on a bee that has to survive a truck and then a hive that may still have a queen.

A bad ship day is not a small miss. Extreme heat and cold in transit damage queens (Entomology Today, 2016). A sloppy introduction is worse: Purdue’s Methods of Introducing Queens (E-277) is blunt that the colony has to be queenless, that acceptance is not guaranteed, and that a rejected queen can leave you with a broodless colony. This page does two jobs the catalogs skip. First, a 2026 price / season / DOA / mark / ship-limit table for five yards we actually opened. Second, a receive-and-introduce checklist plus the cheap Amazon gear that belongs on the lid when the box hits the porch. We’re not selling live bees, and we’re not writing state permit language you should paste into a form.

What You’re Actually Buying

A mail-order queen is a mated laying queen in a ventilated cage — usually a three-hole wood cage or a California-style wood cage — with a few attendant workers and a candy plug. She is one bee. She is not a package of workers. She is not a nucleus colony with frames of brood. If you are still assembling boxes, start with a beekeeping starter kit and a hive, then buy a queen into a colony that can feed her.

Yards also sell different “queen” products, and the words get sloppy:

• Mated, laying queen. What most hobby orders should be. She has already mated and should start laying once the colony accepts her.
• Laying-tested. Lappe markets this as a queen they have already watched lay. It costs a few dollars more than a generic mated queen and is still not a nuc.
• Virgin queen. Cheaper on some lists, slower to get a brood nest, higher odds she never comes back from a mating flight. Skip this if you are plugging an emergency hole.
• Queen cell. A capped cell you graft or buy and let the colony finish. Useful when you are splitting a hive on purpose. Useless the afternoon you discover a silent brood nest.

Experienced beekeepers keep repeating the same starter rule: a nuc beats a package, and a package beats a queen-only box if you don’t already have bees. A queen-only order is the right buy when a working hive is queenless or when a split needs a laying queen this week. It is the wrong buy when you hoped Amazon would send you “a hive in a cage.”

2026 Mail-Order Queen Supplier Comparison

Prices below are single mated queens before freight, read on the yards’ own pages on 23 August 2026. They move with the season. None of these rows are Amazon ASINs — do not treat the table as an add-to-cart widget.

C.F. Koehnen (queens collection) is the sold-out warning, not a sixth buy row. On 23 August 2026 the collection was SOLD OUT. That is normal late-season behavior, not a reason to write “in stock.” If a famous name is empty, wait or call — don’t screenshot last year’s price and pretend you can check out.

Price bands, same day, freight not included: pickup cheap lane $25 (HillCo Italian); everyday mail $36–$56 (Mann Lake Southern, Heritage, Olivarez, Lappe, HillCo mail Italian); premium $68–$98 (Hawaiian, emergency, Golden West). Foxhound’s own buying post still uses a working rule of thumb of about $30 for the bee plus $30 for the plane. That matches what we saw once overnight is on the invoice.

What to Check Before You Order

Do this on paper before you type a card number. A queen you cannot house is just an expensive insect in a cage.

1. Is the hive actually queenless?
Spotty brood is not the same as no queen. Walk frames and look for the old queen and for eggs. Tear down open queen cells if you are replacing her on purpose. Purdue’s rule is not optional: the colony has to be queenless or the new queen is a rival, not a guest. If you are still arguing with yourself about the signs, read the queenless hive checklist first and wait one more inspection.

2. Can you be home on a weekday?
Overnight boxes do not wait on the porch in July. Carriers do not treat a screened cage like insulin. One beekeeper put it plainly: the driver may not care if the truck is hot or cold. Schedule a day you can meet the box, open it indoors, and hang the cage the same day. Friday ship into a Monday porch is how you buy a dead queen and a closed claims window.

3. Will your state take interstate bees?
We did not find a living one-page national permit chart this round (several old extension URLs are 404 or blocked). Lappe already says no live queens to Hawaii and treats Alaska as seasonal. Mann Lake exposes a ship-to-state filter. Olivarez splits California overnight from a two-day Hawaii lane and states its stock is certified free of Africanized genetics. That is the yard talking about its own bees, not your apiary license. Call your state department of agriculture or the local association. Don’t invent a permit number because a blog in another state used one.

4. Can you hit the death-claim clock?
Lappe wants a report within two hours of delivery, with the cage opened that day at room temperature. Olivarez does not print an hour window on the queen product page. If you work a 12-hour shift, a two-hour clock is a reason to pick another yard or a pickup.

5. Do you need her marked?
Mann Lake’s live-queen pages say the bees ship unmarked. Olivarez includes a mark on the Italian $45 cage. If you can’t find an unmarked queen later, budget time and a pen the day she lands (more on that in the gear list).

Italian, Carniolan, and Other Stocks (No Mystique)

Hobby forums spend a lot of oxygen on brand names. Then the same keepers admit stock differences get drowned out by mites and forage. Pick a climate match and a temperament you can live with. Do not pay a $30 premium because the SKU has a famous breeder in the subtitle.

Italian. NC State’s comparison is still the cleanest one-page summary: Italians are generally gentle, they make a decent honey crop, the queen is easier to find on the comb, and they have a moderate swarm impulse. They are also the stock that gets dinged for tracheal-mite and Varroa sensitivity. If you want a queen you can actually see during a spring inspection, Italian is the default mail-order color.

Carniolan. The usual pitch is faster spring buildup in cooler weather and a tighter winter cluster. Olivarez listed Carniolans at $45 and “call for availability” on the day we read the page — treat that as a phone-first SKU, not a cart button.

Russian, VSH, Saskatraz, Golden West. These are the $69–$80 rows (HillCo Golden West $80, Saskatraz $69; Olivarez Saskatraz $50). They are selection programs, not a license to skip monitoring. A “mite-resistant” tag does not replace a Varroa treatment plan. Buy them if you already run counts and want that genetics bet. Skip them if you hoped the invoice would do the work.

Caucasian, Buckfast, hybrids, Hawaiian vaccinated Italians. Mann Lake and Heritage spread these across the menu. Read the yard’s own climate note, then stop. University of Florida’s queen-management publication puts a healthy queen at about 2,000 eggs a day and says output drops off after one to two years. Olivarez marketing copy uses a higher daily number; we are using the extension figure. For caste ID and the other bees in the box, use the types of bees guide.

UF/IFAS also tells Florida readers to prefer European stock and to avoid Africanized sources. That is Florida guidance. It is not a sentence you should paste onto a northern association newsletter.

Five Yards, One Sold-Out Warning

Mann Lake

Mann Lake is the catalog everyone already knows, and the live-queen hub is built like a parts page: Italian, Carniolan, Buckfast, Russian, hybrid, plus a Hawaiian vaccinated Italian and an emergency SKU. The Italian band on 23 August 2026 ran $35.95–$99.95 depending on southern vs. Florida vs. “main” vs. Hawaiian vs. emergency. Bulk pallets exist if you are not a hobby buyer.

Two facts matter more than the breed picker. The queens are unmarked, so you either live with a harder find or you mark her yourself. And the health language is “we guarantee healthy queens,” with a form if she is not laying — not a “photograph within two hours or we close the ticket” clock. If you need a written hour window, this is not the tightest page. The ship-to-state filter is the honest bit: some ZIP codes will not check out, and that is better than a surprise refusal at the dock.

Beekeepers sometimes say Olivarez also supplies Mann Lake. Treat that as a channel-overlap rumor from other keepers, not as something either store printed on the product page. It is a reason to compare the two invoices, not a reason to skip reading either policy.

Olivarez Honey Bees (OHB)

OHB is a California / Hawaii producer with a short collection page and clear SKUs. Italian queens were $45 for one to ten, in a three-hole cage, mark included. Saskatraz was $50. Carniolan sat at $45 with a call-for-availability note. Eleven-plus is a phone order.

Ship pattern: California is weather-gated spring through fall; Hawaii is the year-round lane. California goes UPS guaranteed overnight; Hawaii is a two-day USPS/UPS product. The queen product pages we opened did not print an hour-level dead-on-arrival window. The package-bee FAQ asks for photos within 24 hours. Keepers who bought queens there report a dead bee was replaced the next day at no charge. That is a customer report, and it is why people keep putting OHB on “who do I call in July” lists. It is not a contract we can quote from the queen PDP.

If you want a marked Italian without buying a pen, OHB is the cleanest $45 row in this set.

HillCo (Minonk, Illinois)

HillCo is the pickup-vs-mail lesson. The same Italian is $25 if you drive to Minonk and $55 if she flies overnight. Russian Hybrid $56, OHB Saskatraz $69, OHB Golden West $80. The collection page says nationwide UPS Next Day Air. The standalone /policies/shipping-policy URL returned 404 the day we checked. FAQ copy talks about a ventilated pack and attendant bees. Permit language was not on the page.

Use HillCo when you can pick up, or when you already like an OHB stock and want an Illinois ship point. Do not use a missing policy URL as “proof” of a 2-hour claim. Ask for the DOA window in the order email and save the reply.

Lappe’s Bee Supply (Iowa)

Lappe is the policy page the others should have copied. 2026 Italian Hybrid, Carniolan, Buckfast Hybrid, Russian Hybrid, and Cordovan Hybrid, sold as laying-tested, $41.95–$44.95, with an $8.95 introduction cage if you want their hang cage instead of whatever she arrives in. Season is April–August, weather and stock permitting, UPS Next Day Air.

The claim rule is the reason to read this row twice: dead on arrival only counts if you report it within two hours of delivery. Open the box that day, keep her at room temperature, hang her soon. They will not hear “I found the box on Sunday.” They do not ship live queens to Hawaii. Alaska is seasonal. Three or more queens can ride free when that offer is live — which is the math hobby clubs already use, because freight on one queen often matches the bee.

If your life can support a two-hour photo, Lappe is the yard that tells you the rules in English.

Heritage Bee Farm (Florida)

Heritage is a Wednesday-ship Florida yard: Italian, Carniolan, Caucasian, hybrid, Buckfast, VSH, ticketed at $40 “first available,” with freight commonly $45 under 30 queens. USPS Overnight Express and UPS Next Day Air, plus a Myakka City pickup. September Wednesday slots were still on the page in late August, which matches the UF/IFAS note that fall requeening is a real Florida habit.

What we did not find is DOA or guarantee wording. That is a gap, not a hidden perk. If you like the early Florida season, email support for the death window before you pay. Do not assume Lappe’s two hours or Olivarez’s keeper reports apply here.

C.F. Koehnen — sold out on purpose

Koehnen’s queens collection was SOLD OUT on 23 August 2026. We are leaving it here so you recognize the pattern. Famous California names empty out. A sold-out page is not a coupon. Come back in spring or get on a list. Do not write the yard into a “best in stock” sentence you cannot defend.

Shipping, Weather, and Dead-on-Arrival Rules

Overnight, or don’t click buy. A two-day “saver” rate on a July queen is how you donate $45 to a warm trailer. One keeper who priced a single queen said the freight cost as much as the bee. That is normal, not a scam, and it is why club split orders and Lappe’s three-plus free-ship note exist.

Temperature is the silent killer. The 2016 shipping-temperature write-up is the piece keepers still pass around: heat and cold in transit hurt queens even when she walks out of the cage. You can’t see that damage on the porch. You see it two weeks later when the brood pattern never starts. That is not something this article can “fix.” It is why you pick overnight, a weekday delivery, and a yard that will still talk to you if she is dead in the box.

Claim windows are not interchangeable:

• Lappe: two hours, same-day open, room temp, introduce soon.
• Olivarez: no hour print on the queen PDP; 24-hour photo language lives on the package-bee FAQ; keepers report next-day replacements.
• Mann Lake: healthy-queen guarantee and a form — no hour clock.
• HillCo / Heritage: ask in writing.

Photograph the closed box, the open cage, the attendants, and the candy plug before you do anything clever. If she is dead, you need those pictures more than you need to “see if the hive will take her anyway.”

Skip casual marketplaces. Keepers who have tried the cheap listing route say they would not buy live bees off auction-style sites. You need a yard that still answers the phone in July, not a username.

Line the order up with the beekeeping calendar and, if this is a spring dump of new bees, spring management. A queen in January is a story; a queen in a flow you can actually feed is a plan. Freight belongs in the same column as the bee on a cost breakdown.

How to Receive and Introduce a Mail-Order Queen

This is the part catalogs bury under “see our install guide.” Purdue and UF/IFAS do not. We are following them, not inventing a clinic.

1. Take her inside, not to the freezer.
Open the box in a closed room with a window screened. She should be upright, attendants moving, candy plug present. Don’t refrigerate a mailed queen “to calm her down.” Shade and room temperature are enough. If she is dead, stop and start the claim. If attendants are dead and she is walking, still photograph everything — some yards care about the escort count, some do not.

2. Confirm the hive is hopelessly queenless.
No eggs, no old queen, no cells you meant to keep. If you only think she is gone, find her properly or you will hang a $45 rival next to a laying queen and watch a ball form. Purdue’s first condition is still the first condition. UF/IFAS requeening notes start the same way: remove the old queen before you introduce.

3. Hang the cage between brood frames.
Candy end accessible to workers, screen facing a seam they can feed through, not smashed into comb. A three-hole wood cage or a California cage is already a slow-release tool. You do not need a special frame for a calm, truly queenless hive. Leave the attendants in unless the yard told you to dump them.

4. Decide candy-now vs. tape-for-two-days.
Workers chewing the candy are eating sugar. That is not a vote. One beekeeper put it in those words after watching a hive chew a plug and then try to kill the queen anyway. If bees are biting the screen or piping hard at the cage, tape the candy for two or three days, watch the mood, then pull the tape. If they are just feeding her, leave the candy alone and let them release her.

5. Close the hive and walk away.
Poke less, not more. A day-two peek to “see if they like her” is how you roll a ball. Give them several days. Then look for eggs, not for a victory parade. NC State’s Italian note is useful here too: the candy plug is hard sugar, and workers can take days to chew it. Empty cage plus no eggs is not automatically success — she may be out and hiding, or out and dead. Look for eggs over the next week.

6. If they reject her, slow down.
Purdue says acceptance is not guaranteed. Rejection can leave a broodless colony. That is the risk you bought with a mail-order queen. This page will not give you a treatment plan or a home remedy. Re-read the queenless hive guide, check for emergency cells, and decide whether a second queen, a nuc combine, or a pause is the next honest move. Fast second orders in a still-hostile hive just buy a second dead bee.

Two process videos that match this hang-the-cage sequence, not product ads: The Safest Method To Introduce Queen Bees and How to Install a New Queen. Watch them for hands position and cage placement. Do not treat a comment section as extension.

What You Need on Arrival Day

Live queens are not in this table. These are the five pieces worth having on the hive lid the morning the box arrives. Prices are Amazon Creators API amounts from 23 August 2026.

A push-in introduction frame exists (Shadwins, $24.00) for hives that keep killing caged queens. Stock was tight the day we priced it, and finish complaints show up on the listing. Skip it if you run one or two hives and the mailed candy cage is already a slow release. We are not stacking extra mark pens here — that comparison already lives in the queen marking pen guide.

How We Picked the Arrival Gear

No laboratory, and no “we ran these cages in a test yard” story. The five SKUs are the cheap tools a mail-order day actually uses: a spare cage in two styles, a clip that can hold her, a mark kit for unmarked stock, and a hive tool to open the box she is going into. We ranked on cage style (plastic six-pack vs. wood California), whether the kit covers an unmarked arrival, and whether the tool is something you already own. Skip the $24 push-in frame if you keep two hives. Skip a second mark-pen bundle if you already bought pens last spring.

1. RyanDesign 6-Pack Plastic Queen Cage — Best Budget Cage

Six ABS cages for $4.99 is the “I am not gambling the only cage she arrived in” buy. Mail-order queens travel in a wood cage that has already been through a warehouse and a truck. If that cage is cracked, if the cork is gone, or if you want her in a clean hang while the smashed wood goes in the claim photos, you need a spare. A six-pack also covers a season of splits without another checkout.

Plastic cages ventilate well and they do not swell after a nectar drip. They are also easier to sanitize than a one-use wood cage you are not sure is still square. Keep two in the truck and four in the shed. The shape is a little bulkier than a California wood cage, so you pick a seam between frames instead of forcing it into drawn comb.

The honest downside is brood. One owner said the cage crushed brood the first time they used it and they switched to another style for marking. That is a placement problem as much as a product problem — if you jam a rectangular plastic box into a tight honey frame, you will ruin cells. Use it on a seam, or move a frame over a quarter inch with the hive tool first.

Who it is for. Anyone ordering a queen this year who does not already keep spare cages. Also the club treasurer who wants a coffee-money kit in the association trailer.

What we like:

• Six cages for less than a jar of honey
• Ventilated plastic that does not swell
• Enough extras for a split weekend

What could be better:

• Can mash brood if you force it into tight comb
• Not the same silhouette as a mailed California cage

“They restrain well and do the job. Quality felt solid for the price.” — owner notes, paraphrased

2. Housoutil Wooden California-style Queen Cages — Best Wood Cage

Five wood-and-mesh cages with corks for $8.69. This is the silhouette most mailed queens already live in: small, corked, one working hole on a California-style body. If you want a spare that hangs the same way the yard packed her, buy wood, not another plastic brick.

Owners who are new to the craft notice the finish — mesh attached, corks that actually fit. The useful field note is the size: one hole, small interior, queen plus maybe one attendant. That sounds like a flaw until you hang it. The small body slides between frames without carving a hole in the comb. That is the whole point of a California cage.

The tradeoff is escort space. If you like a crowd of attendants in the cage for a long introduction, this is the wrong shape. Use it as a hang cage, not as a three-day hotel. And yes, public owner notes on this exact listing are thin. We are not dressing that up as a decade of field reports. The design is old and boring, which is what you want on introduction day.

Who it is for. Keepers who already think in wood cages and want five extras that match the mailer.

What we like:

• Same hang as a mailed California cage
• Small enough to spare the comb
• Corks and mesh that sit flush

What could be better:

• One-hole body is tight for attendants
• Thin public track record on this exact listing

“Clean wood, mesh on straight, corks fit — and the small size goes between frames without wrecking comb.” — owner notes, paraphrased

3. Outus Queen Clip Catchers — Best Catcher

$9.99 for a clip set and a marking bottle. Arrival day is when you want this, not three weeks later when she is already walking the brood nest. If you need to look at her, move her out of a smashed cage, or put a year-color dot on an unmarked thorax, a clip beats bare fingers.

The marking bottle is the piece keepers praise. You slide her in, she walks up, you dab the thorax, you let her go. That is gentler than chasing her across a frame with a pen in one hand and a smoker in the other. For a Mann Lake unmarked queen, this is the difference between “I’ll mark her next time” and actually marking her before she vanishes.

The clip itself is the risk. One owner called the one-handed catcher junk — sharp plastic flashing, snag points, a shape that could nick a queen. Inspect every clip before it touches her. File or toss any piece with a burr. If a clip feels gritty, it is a $9.99 lesson, not a reason to squeeze harder.

Anyone taking unmarked mail-order queens, and anyone who does not want to pin a $45 bee with a thumb.

What we like:

• Marking bottle is the easy path to a clean dot
• Set covers catch-and-mark on one checkout
• Cheap enough to keep a spare in the truck

What could be better:

• Flash and rough edges on some clips
• One-handed catcher is the weak piece in the set

“The marking bottle is the easy part. Check the clip for sharp plastic before it goes near her.” — owner notes, paraphrased

4. benefitbee Queen Bee Marking Kit — Best If Unmarked

$18.99 for five year-color pens and four clear clips. 2026 is a white year. If your yard ships unmarked — Mann Lake says so in plain text — you either learn to find a naked queen every inspection or you put a dot on her the day she lands. This kit is the “I do not already own pens” answer. If you want the longer pen-vs-pen argument, it is already written in the marking pen comparison.

Owners who got the kit as pictured like the color set and say the pens behave like standard water-based markers. That is all you need for a thorax dot. The failure mode is packing: one buyer said the box did not match the photo — markers plus a different cage count. Open it before queen week, not on the tailgate while the overnight box sits in the sun.

Don’t mark her over an open hive in a wind. Clip, blot the pen, one small thorax dot, wait for it to dry, then hang the cage. A blob that wets her wings is how you turn a $45 queen into a project. Practice on a drone first if you have never done this.

Who it is for. First unmarked mail-order queen, or a club kit that needs every year color in one tin.

What we like:

• Full year-color set in one buy
• Clips in the same box
• Pairs cleanly with an unmarked Mann Lake queen

What could be better:

• Packing can disagree with the product photo
• Overkill if you already own a white pen for 2026

“Five pens in the right colors, four clips, not messy when you blot first.” — owner notes, paraphrased

5. Sunshane J-hook Hive Tool — Receive-Day Tool

$7.99 for two J-hooks. This is not a hive-tool essay — that already lives in the hive tool guide. It is here because introduction day is an inspection day. You still have to crack propolis, lift a brood frame, and make a gap that will not crush the cage. A J-hook pulls a frame toward you without the full pry-bar swing that dumps bees on your shoes.

Owners like the hook for frame pulling and treat the pair as a spare-in-the-other-box tool. That is all this page needs to say. If you already own a hive tool you trust, skip this row. If your only tool is a screwdriver, do not hang a $45 queen with it.

New keepers whose first queen arrives before their first decent hive tool.

What we like:

• Two tools for pocket change
• Hook lifts frames without a full pry
• Light enough to leave on the lid

What could be better:

• Not a specialty introduction tool
• Redundant if you already bought from the hive-tool guide

“The hook pulls frames. The price is the point.” — owner notes, paraphrased

Buying Guide: What to Look For

Five checks beat a brand crush.

Overnight plus a written death window. If the yard will not say when a dead queen stops being their problem, you are buying a shrug. Two hours (Lappe) is strict and honest. A healthy-queen form with no clock (Mann Lake) is looser. A missing paragraph (Heritage, HillCo’s 404 policy URL) is a question you ask in email.

Marked vs. unmarked. Unmarked is not a defect. It is a time tax. If you can’t find a queen on a busy Italian frame, pay for a mark or budget the pen kit.

Pickup vs. mail. HillCo’s $25 / $55 split is the cleanest math on this page. A club pickup from a local association is better than both when the stock is decent. Experienced keepers still say there is little reason to ship a queen if you can buy her in town.

Season honesty. April–August (Lappe), weather-gated California (OHB), Wednesday Florida (Heritage), “dates may vary” (Mann Lake), sold out (Koehnen). Empty is empty. Do not order a winter queen because a leftover product page still has a cart.

One queen vs. freight math. Freight often matches the bee. Two or three queens in one overnight — yours plus a club member’s — is how people stop paying $40 to move $42. A single emergency queen is still worth it if the hive is truly queenless. It is a bad habit as a shopping style.

Skip list. Skip auction-site live bees. Skip a virgin or a cell if you need eggs next week. Skip a $24 push-in frame for a two-hive backyard unless the candy cage already failed. Skip “resistant” stock as a substitute for mite counts.

Which Setup Should You Buy

Local association first. If the club has mated queens this month, that is the order.

If you are mailing: pick Lappe when you can hit a two-hour photo window and you want the rules in writing; pick Olivarez when you want a marked Italian at $45 and a California or Hawaii ship lane; pick Mann Lake when you need a breed menu and a ship-to-state filter; pick HillCo when you can drive to Minonk for $25; pick Heritage when you want a Florida Wednesday ship and you have the DOA answer in email. Ignore Koehnen until the sold-out banner is gone.

For the lid kit: keep the RyanDesign 6-Pack Plastic Queen Cage ($4.99) as the spare hang. Add the Housoutil Wooden California-style Queen Cages ($8.69) if you want the mailed silhouette. Keep Outus Queen Clip Catchers ($9.99) in the bucket. Buy the benefitbee Queen Bee Marking Kit ($18.99) only if she will arrive unmarked and you do not already own pens. Grab the Sunshane J-hook Hive Tool ($7.99) if a real hive tool is not already in the box.

Slow introductions beat fast ones. A rejected queen can leave a broodless colony. That sentence is Purdue’s, and it is the last one that should sit in your head when the overnight truck turns into the driveway.

Related Guides

• How to find the queen before you decide the hive is empty
• Queenless hive signs if the introduction fails
• Types of bees when the breed picker gets loud
• Queen marking pens for unmarked arrivals
• How to split a hive — the other reason people buy queens
• How to start beekeeping if you do not have a colony yet
• More on BeeGuide and the queen bees hub