5-Frame Nucleus Colony

**A non-refundable price of $50 is due on checkout. The rest will be due on pick up**

The perfect way to start beekeeping! Our five frame nucleus colonies (or nucs) come with 5 deep frames of comb with various amounts of honey, pollen and brood of all stages (egg, larval and pupa), 3+ pounds of live bees and a laying queen. Our queens have been established and laying in the colony for several weeks. We make our nucs from our own bees and start them out with a queen cell. That queen than hatches and flies out to mate with drones in our bee yards. We start with Italian queen cells, but what they mate with is out of our control so we lovingly call them "Montana Mutts". We have been successfully selling nucs to customers for 8 years with great feedback on temperament, honey production and winter survival rates. 

By purchasing a nuc through our website, your name will be put on our reservation list. In mid April, you will receive an email with information about pick up day. We typically schedule pick up day on the first or second Saturday in May. Pick up day is determined by weather and growth of the nucleus colony. Our nucs spend early spring in Montana and we want to make sure they are strong enough to make you successful. Each nuc is checked a few days prior to pick up to make sure they are up to our standards. If you are unable to make the designated pick up day, we will work with you to find an alternative day where most people can make it, there will however be a $10 convenience fee due at time of pick up.  

**A non-refundable price of $50 is due on checkout. The rest will be due on pick up**