Product Details
Description
Mann Lake has partnered with superior Italian breeders to bring you the best bees for your area. We are excited to now offer our customers West Coast (Tauzer Apiaires) and East Coast (BZ-Bee Pollination) bees.
Italian queens have good honey production, gentle nature, and strong brood-rearing viabilities. They also possess the resilience to survive the winter months in a healthy condition while maintaining a good weight, ensuring their ability to bounce back quickly during spring. Italian bee package from Mann Lake includes approximately 3 lb of bees and a laying, open-air mated Italian queen.
Key Features
Italian bees bring their own set of special characteristics to enrich the hive environment. The following are their key traits:
- Gentle and easily manageable (a good beginner bee)
- Prolific brood producers
- Excellent hygienic behavior
- Skilled comb builders
- Prolificity, with a keen focus on brood-raising
- Superb foragers
- Excellent honey producers
- Has a propensity for efficient comb building and super entry
- Lesser swarm tendencies than other subspecies
These qualities make these honey bees especially suited for regions with an ongoing nectar flow and favorable weather throughout the summer.
Take Beekeeping to the Next Level
Settle your Italian package bees into their new home with our helpful installation guide.
Order and Shipping Details
Our bee packages are available while supplies last. The price includes shipping. For USPS shipping, packages will require pickup at your local post office.
We’ll contact you with a shipment date and provide tracking information once the bees are shipped. Cancellations are not accepted within 14 days of the bees’ estimated ship date.
Our bee package orders are prepaid. Orders are subject to a $10 change or cancellation fee after the prepayment has been processed.
By purchasing, you’re agreeing to our Bee Policy.
Bee Insurance
There is always a risk when shipping live animals, so Mann Lake includes insurance with the purchase of every shipped package. Any package with 1 ½” or more of dead bees spread evenly on the bottom of the package is eligible for a refund or replacement. To file a claim, simply submit a photo of the shipping label and the package showing more than 1 ½” of dead bees on the bottom of the package when spread evenly across the bottom via our website Package Bee Help. We make every effort to ship replacements, if available, on the earliest ship date possible. If we are unable to accommodate a replacement, a refund will be issued within 7-10 business days of submission.
Shipping Information
The ship date selected indicates the day your packages are processed for shipping. You will receive tracking information via email. Tracking may not show movement until Monday and your bees will arrive at your local post office for pickup by mid-week.
USPS does not handle live bees the same way as regular parcels. Tracking information can be tricky with bees.
- Orders typically reach you ahead of the USPS estimated delivery date indicated in the tracking details.
- Tracking information might not always reflect real-time updates, be fully comprehensive, or entirely precise. There's no need to worry if it seems like your package isn't moving forward.
- Tracking information is supplied by USPS. While we strive to assist, we cannot guarantee the accuracy of tracking statuses and do not have access to any tracking details beyond what is available on USPS.com.
Specification
- 3.00 LBS
- Shipped packages will ship via USPS Ground & will be held at local Post Office for pickup.
- An unmarked queen will be included in live bee packages.
- Certified Small Hive Beetle-free.
- Certified Africanized-free genetics.
- Honey Bee Genetics produces queens and bees year-round in the temperate climate of the Sacramento Valley in California.
- They are a leader in the industry because their beekeepers have many years of expertise and care about producing healthy, hygienic, & well-nourished bees.
- HBG packages install easily and establish strong, hygienic hives that are excellent honey producers.
- Steve Taber and Tom Parisian began Honey Bee Genetics in 1979 with a goal of breeding a disease resistant stock of hygienic bees with an ability to overcome American Foulbrood. Honey Bee Genetics was purchased by the Tauzer Family in April 2020.
- Tauzer Apiaries has a long-standing relationship with Honey Bee Genetics and sustains the important queen rearing practices begun by Tom and Steve so long ago. Mark Tauzer and the Tauzer Family have been beekeeping and raising queens since 1973.
- Honey Bee Genetics follows the same successful breeding techniques of continuously testing our stock for these traits & carefully breeding our queens to produce specific hygienic traits that help create resistance to Varroa mites & other diseases.
- Bee packages cannot be shipped to a PO Box. You must provide a physical address.
