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Our mated queens are accepted more readily than virgin queen bees or cells and will not encounter problems as virgin queens do on mating flights.
ApiLife Limited facilitates a breeding program that ensures top-quality genetics for both our Italian queen bee and Carniolan queen bee. At the same time, we implement the perfect conditions for incubation and queen mating. Adding new, high-quality queen bees with our top-quality honey bee genetics into your hives is a premium, cost-effective solution to increase resilience for stronger, healthier colonies.
Because we offer Carniolan and Italian queen bees for sale in NZ, your new queen will exhibit a gentle temperament with increased brood production and therefore be easy for beekeepers to service. Italian honey bees are effective honeycomb builders, housekeepers, and cleaners of the hive. Also, your hive will be simple to manage with lower swarm tendencies.
If you are looking to buy queens from us at ApiLife Limited, we will act with integrity and honesty. We have a history of strong communication with our customers, ensuring they have the best outcome when investing in our Carniolan and Italian queen bees for sale in NZ. In addition, we make installing a new queen bee as simple as possible, improving your queen introduction success rate.
ApiLife Limited transports throughout New Zealand using overnight couriers. We get your queens to you as quickly as possible to avoid casualties. Should your colony be underperforming, do not hesitate to contact us with queries or information about your hive’s current state so we can let you know the best solution moving forward.
Partnering with us for nucs will enable you to receive high quality nucs consisting of four to five frames worth of worker bees, three frames of brood, one frame of honey, one frame of pollen/ space for the queen to lay, and an open-mated queen. The nuc can be integrated into a full hive body, upon which supplemental feeding will form an effective, healthy colony.
By choosing a nuc, you can give your hive an excellent start, developing a colony faster than traditional approaches while not breaking the queen’s laying cycle. Our nucs pair easily with larger hive bodies where your honey production will magnify after purchasing from our team.
If your colony is queenless, you can put our queen cells directly into the colony producing greater diversity in your apiaries, with a similar effect to our mated queens, but less of an investment. The queen bee cells are a more economical alternative to our mated queens or artificially inseminated queens. All our queens are tested in our very own Manuka blocks to ensure they are bred from high-performance queen stock that can produce high quality and high quantities of Manuka honey MGO or produce high quantities of any honey sources effectively throughout New Zealand.
Whether you require mated queens for re-queening or are starting a hive and installing queen cells, we are committed to providing a great service for hives throughout New Zealand. We ship using overnight couriers nationwide to ensure that we service any order properly – and we are used to shipping large orders with restrictive time limits. Our Carniolan and Italian queen bees for sale in NZ are the best you can get.
Our team employs effective breeding techniques that we have mastered over twelve years in commercial beekeeping to ensure our range of queens is available on time. We use artificial insemination to select desired genetic traits that play a key role in the bees’ life cycle that affect the overall health of the colonies’ lifecycle of queen bees [external link: lifecycle of queen bees].
If you have any questions or encounter issues with your colony, feel free to phone us on 0273559790 or email info@apilife.co.nz for additional shipping information or New Zealand beekeeper support. In partnering with us, you make a concerted effort to ensure you receive maximum output from your hive.
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