Nucleus Hives

Our goal is simple: To help you get started in bee keeping on a firm footing, in the most practical and affordable way, without any gimmicks – just tried and true Australian Bee Keeping! Our knowledge and passion can help you not only save big bucks, but also to help give you the keys to understanding bees through being hands on and confident to learn and progress quickly, so hopefully you’ll be successfull at bee keeping and not quit. The bees need all the love they can get ! 

Our 5 frame Nuc hives are almost always in stock as we produce them for our breeding program, and for our customer’s needs and can supply bulk if ordered before end or August and September. All our nucs are made in proper wooden 5 frame Nuc Boxes in our apiary, which provide the safe protection for a Nuc to develop well in early Spring, while nights can still be cold. We transfer them to coreflute boxes a short while before delivery. We mainly supply Nuc’s from mid to late Sep-Dec each season however we can supply at other times.

It’s strongly recommend beginners get their nuc’s as early in the season as possible to maximise the build up in your area during the flows, and to have prepared their hiveware and painted it over winter so it’s all out-gassed for the bees, or we can sell you a complete hive with bees if your behind schedule, you can then split it when your equipment is ready during spring.

Nuc’s can be kept all year round as double and triple nuc’s with excluders, and do great overwintered in these configurations, However, they may need to be fed if stores run low, and if your area is in a dearth. We don’t mark queens, some people prefer to mark their queens themselves, but we chose not to mark our own queens in any case. There’s a risk a queen can be rejected after marking by the colony due to the foreign scent, and queens are basically ruined if you get paint on their antennae. Bee’s will supersede these in many cases, and a colony can go backwards till an emergency mated queen picks up the slack (5 weeks) Which would be the demise of the colony being so small, local resorces depending. Colonies can only raise a viable mated queen if you have sufficient drone populations, this is another reason to keep a few strong hives at any one time. And if you do lose a queen, the best option is to requeen with a bought mated queen if you can get one.

5 frame nuc w/ Nuplas Injection Molded Box – Early Bird Order Before End of August for $299 ea (up to 10 nucs)

Normal price $330  Click here for our online shop.

Please contact us for bulk pricing.
Nuc Orders require a minimum 50% deposit and priority is given in order. All orders before end of August should be delivered by end of September unless conditions cause a short delay. 

Upgrades:
Hoop Pine 5 frame Nuc Box, assembled and painted add $150 ea (replaces the more tempoary plastic nuc box)