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Reserve your bees at lloydstbees.com
WI Spring Nucs $210 (volume discounts available for 10 or more)
• Three frames of brood and bees at various stages (eggs, larvae and capped)
• One frame of feed (honey, syrup, pollen)
• One miscellaneous frame (sugar frame, drawn frame, brood, feed frame or foundation)
• Marked 2024 Lloyd St. Bees queen
• Available June thru July
• Preorders begin 1/1/2024 with more availability as spring arrives.
WI Overwintered Nuc $235 - SOLD OUT
• Three frames of brood and bees at various stages (eggs, larvae and capped)
• One frame of feed (honey, syrup, pollen)
• One miscellaneous frame (sugar frame, drawn frame, brood, feed frame or foundation)
• Marked 2023 Lloyd St. Bees queen
• Available mid May
• Preorders begin 1/1/2024 with more availability as spring arrives
WI Overwintered 10 Frame Single Deep $350 - SOLD OUT
• We supply the woodenware. Woodenware is used condition.
• Estimated pick up will be 5/12/2024 or 5/19/2024
• 8 deep frames (4-6 will contain brood at various stages)
• 1 gallon in hive pro feeder
• Marked 2023 Lloyd St. Bees queen
• Presale available starting 1/1/2024 and more reservations available starting on 3/5/2024
- Marked Mated Queen - $55
- Marked Virgin Queen - $25
o 3 for $75
o 10 for $200
-Inseminated Breeder Queen “Not Yet Laying” - $225
2023 Overwintered Breeder Queen Nuc - $450
Overwintered open mated breeder queen nucs – These are spring/summer nucs that we tested for mites in late August and scored a 0/300 in an alcohol wash test. The colonies are not treated for mites and are overwintered. We then perform the Harbo VSH assay on them the following spring before sale to score their level of mite resistance. We use these high scoring colonies in our drone yards for open mating queens, drone collection for insemination and grafting to increase fitness of our stock. Each nuc comes with a sheet detailing the score of the colony, when the tests were performed and what stock they came from.
Lloyd St. Bees Is:
Local - Our bees live in WI 365 days a year. We don’t do pollination and we overwinter all our colonies outdoors here in WI. When we say local, we mean it.
Winter Survival – Our bees have been bred to survive the long and cold WI winter while consuming less resources. We overwinter our colonies in single 5 frame nucs, single 6 frame nucs and single 10 frame deeps. This might sound impossible to some folks when they first hear it, but I can assure you it happens.
We Don't Bank Our Mated Queens- Our mated queens don't sit in a cage being held in a hive just waiting for someone to place an order like many large scale queen suppliers. The time the queen spends not laying can be detrimental to the queens longevity and career. When we prepare a shipment, only then do we remove the laying queen and cage her.
Mated Queen Evaluation - We don't pull our queens until they have laid a frame of eggs that we can examine. We want to see the brood pattern before we sell you our queens. This means queen mating can take anywhere from 14-21 days before she is ready to be handed off to you. This goes against most large scale operations that pull a queen on day 10 and bank her before she has started to lay or just a day after.
Varroa Sensitive Hygiene – VSH is the best alternative for reducing or eliminating the need for chemical and organic mite treatments on your bees because the bees naturally reduce the varroa mite population for you. Our artificially inseminated breeder queens come from top VSH specialists in the US and insure a strong VSH trait is passed down to our daughter queens. Even though we trust our suppliers, we submit their breeder queens to a one year trial before introducing them into our stock. During this time, we monitor their performance and the performance of their daughters. All of our overwintered artificially inseminated breeder queens from our own stock or imported are subjected to a test to measure the level of VSH they contain. This involves counting the number of reproductive and non-reproductive mites within 100 capped brood cells. We score them on this metric and advance them into the breeding program if they have high marks. Only once this testing is complete do we begin grafting for sale.
Visit our website for more information: lloydstbees.com
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