Bee hives for sale

Next round of colonies available will be around 22 November 2024. Please email us if you would like to buy a colony.

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Commonly known as a nucleus hive, bee nuc, baby bee hive, bee colony or a bee package, the live bee colony purchased is a colony of bees and a queen that is under 3 months old (unless it's later in the season).

A Nucleus Hive is a founding colony of bees. Our nucleus hives are four or five frames and whilst nature determines the exact combination of the frames, we aim to ensure the hive has generally 2-4 frames of brood and 1-2 frames of honey/nectar/pollen bread.

All hives are established with a young queen (<3mths old) to limit the swarming instinct but also ensure she is a productive layer. Queens within each nucleus are sourced from a breeder that is known for rearing calm, hygienic progeny.

All nucleus hives are guaranteed disease free at delivery.

All colonies come in a Nuplas nucleus box and include the delivery of the hive (within 25km of Bulimba, Qld and scheduled for early evening/morning with the customer). Pick up is also welcome if you live outside this radius. We CANNOT ship a nucleus hive.

Installed hives include the delivery of the colony and two x 1hr mentoring sessions in your apiary of choice to install the colony and learn how to do a standard inspection.

If you have purchased a Flow Hive and are looking for a bee package to start your hive, this is the ideal place to start.

Nucleus packages will be available from 1 September 2024 onwards. 

Image: Our goal is always to ensure you take delivery of a strong, productive hive with a body of worker bees that can quickly establish the nucleus hive in the new location.