Mated Honey Bee Queens
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Mated Queen Bees
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California Mated VSH Queens - Available for Pickup
These California VSH queens we recently received are NOT marked, and we cannot mark them here. We apologize for any inconvenience.
These queens are pickup only from our store in downtown Birmingham — we do not ship queens at this time.
NOTE: All queens should be picked up within 7 days of ordering or on their pickup date if preordering. They cannot be guaranteed after 7 days. Remember that these are live animals.
Watch our video on installing a queen
Read our post about how to install a queen
A mated queen can make splitting a hive much easier during the spring or the fall. Installing a mated queen into a queenless hive can save your colony or increase your apiary size. Requeening in the fall is a huge benefit to your colonies when spring comes.
Alabama Queens - These queens are mated in Alabama. The Italian bees are docile and a favorite choice of both commercial and beginner beekeepers. Italians have a long brood cycle that is great for areas with plentiful forage and shorter winters. Italian queens brood up quickly in the spring, making them popular for most beekeepers. They tend to be low to moderate propolis producers. Italian bees are excellent honey producers.
VSH Italian Queens from California - These queens are brought in from California through a favorite queen breeder of ours who has been in the queen business since the 70's. They have a great reputation for high-quality queens. These mated queens arrive in a JZBZ cage. These queens are bred for their natural ability to detect and remove varroa mites from capped cells. VSH stands for Varroa Sensitive Hygiene.
VSH Italian Pol-Line From Florida - Brought in from central Florida, this Italian line of queens is bred with the popular Pol-Line and their genetic traits. These queens are daughters of breeding queens from South Carolina and the USDA Queen Breeding Program. Read more about Pol-Line queens here.
To start a return, visit our return portal here.
We have a 30-day return policy, which means you have 30 days after receiving your item to request a return.
To be eligible for a return, your item must be in the same condition that you received it, unworn or unused, with tags, and in its original packaging. The order will also need to have been placed through our retail store or through www.foxhoundbeecompany.com
Customer Reviews
Installed Queen pre Foxhounds instructions. Everything went fine. It's the hive in the middle of video.
Realized our recently caught swarm no longer had a queen so we rushed down to FH to get a queen. Luckily they were still in stock with the Varroa Sensitive Hygiene queens from California. The queen was naturally released from the cage within two days and was already laying when inspected.
Staff was super helpful and respectful! Was also my first visit to the store.
Great service at Foxhound Bee Company as always. Queen is doing great.
purchased 2 queens, both took well to their new homes.
Our hive swarmed and left part of the workers. We didn’t have any brood and no queen could be found. We bought a queen and upon pickup had great information and suggestions provided by the staff. The hive accepted the queen and now we have brood.
