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2025 Carniolan Queen Bee - Buy 3 or more get Free UPS Next Day Shipping

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Product Overview

Carniolan Queen Honey Bees For Sale

Please note: When starting a new bee hive, you need to purchase a package of bees with a queen, not just a queen. Without the 2 or 3 pounds of bees to take care of her, the queen will not be able to survive and will die. These mated queens are for queening an existing hive or splits in the spring time.

Please place a separate order for equipment; queen bees need to be shipped on their own, so any equipment and/or supplies will be billed for shipping separately by our website, and the shipping will be billed as UPS Next Day Air.

Cancellations are not accepted within 3 days of the selected ship out date.

Lappe's Bee Supply offers some of the best mated Carniolan queen bees for sale online! Queens will be shipped from April through the end of August. Queens will arrive in California mini queen cages or 3 hole queen cages. Regardless of whichever type of queen cage your queen arrives in, there will be a candy plug already in one end filled with queen candy. We recommend leaving this plug in when placing your new queen into the hive. Lappe's Bee Supply is not responsible for anything that happens because the bee keeper makes the choice to remove the candy plug or the queen candy from the queen cage. It is always better to allow her to stay in the queen cage with the candy plug intact, to give the worker bees time to get familiar with her pheromone and get her out of the cage themselves.

Queen honey bees from Lappe's Bee Supply are guaranteed to be alive upon arrival (certain conditions apply). Queen replacement for queens DOA is always at the discretion of LBS and needs to be reported right upon arrival; please contact us with the details. If not reported within 2 hours of the time of arrival, we will not be able to replace or refund any queen bees. We adhere to time of arrival as noted on UPS tracking numbers. Acceptable methods of contacting us include phone and email.

If you are looking for where to buy Carniolan queen bees for sale near me, look no further than Lappe's Bee Supply! Each summer we ship thousands of queen bees to all across the USA. We work hard at supplying the best queen bees to our customers. All of the Carniolan queen honeybees for sale at Lappe's Bee Supply are young, naturally mated superb queens. We DO NOT clip the queens wings. Place your order online to buy your queen honey bees, and if you have any questions, please feel free to contact us - we are always happy to speak with you! Lappe's Bee Supply is an online agriculture supplier company with listings for Carniolan queen bees for sale 2025, choose from several different strains of queen honey bees for sale.

Queens cannot survive for long outside of honeybee hives! Your queen needs to be inside of the beehive where the worker bees can feed her and give her water and food. Please plan on putting your queen into your hive shortly after picking her up from the post office. Please do not leave queen bees sitting on the counter overnight!

Carniolan Queen Bees Shipping Information

All orders of 3 or more queens qualify for free shipping! Free shipped queen orders of 3 or more queen bees will be sent out through UPS Next Day Air, and should arrive to you the next day. You need to be home when UPS delivers your queen(s), to prevent your bees from sitting outside in an inhospitable environment.

Right after your queens ship out, usually mid - late afternoon, we will send a shipping confirmation to your email address that will contain your tracking number. Sometimes this email can end up in your spam folder, so please be sure to check there as well. It is every customer's responsibility to check on the shipping progress of their queens, so they can be ready when the bees arrive. It is at our discretion to replace queens, based on what events took place. Important - Please Note: if you have multiple email addresses, please be sure to verify which email address you used during checkout. Our system will send the shipment information to the email you listed when placing your order.

Orders of 30 or more queens will ship by UPS Next Day Air Early for the free shipping method. All orders of 25 queens will have 1 extra queen added to the order, to account for any queen loss during shipping. We photograph all orders for our records before shipping. During any time that UPS suspends their service guarantee, Lappe's Bee Supply is unable to replace queens if they die due to a delayed shipment.

We are able to ship queen honey bees through UPS Next Day Air Early or UPS Next Day Air to only the lower 48 United States and Alaska (Alaska shipments do not qualify for free shipping, Next Day Air will deliver in 2 business days); we can not ship queens to Hawaii, and we do not do International or Canada shipments. 

We offer free shipping on orders of 3 or more mated Carniolan queen bees for sale Alabama AL, Arizona AZ, Arkansas AR, California CA, Colorado CO, Connecticut CT, Delaware DE, Florida FL, Georgia GA, Idaho ID, Illinois IL, Indiana IN, Iowa IA, Kansas KS, Kentucky KY, Louisiana LA, Maine ME, Maryland MD, Massachusetts MA, Michigan MI, Minnesota MN, Mississippi MS, Missouri MO, Montana MT, Nebraska NE, Nevada NV, New Hampshire NH, New Jersey NJ, New Mexico NM, New York NY, North Carolina NC, North Dakota ND, Ohio OH, Oklahoma OK, Oregon OR, Pennsylvania PA, Rhode Island RI, South Dakota SD, South Carolina SC, Tennessee TN, Texas TX, Utah UT, Vermont VT, Virginia VA, Washington WA, West Virginia WV, Wisconsin WI, Wyoming WY, in the United States USA.

Queen Honey Bees Terms & Conditions

Queen Marking

We can mark queens for an additional fee of $4 each. Please let us know which color you would like to have her marked. The International Color for 2025 is blue, but if you are only ordering a marked queen to make it easier to spot her in the beehive, you can choose whichever color you think would make her easy to find.

Carniolan Honey Bees Information

Carniolan bees are extremely gentle for bee keepers to work. During the summer months when the honey flow keeps them busy, you can hardly tell that you are bothering them at all, which makes keeping bees for the beekeeper enjoyable. Carniolans build up their population in the early spring, and they are able to maintain high populations in the bee hives all summer long, due to the mated queens laying lots of eggs. This strong workforce will result in excellent honey production, since Carniolan worker bees are excellent pollinators and foragers. Since they can have larger stores of honey and pollen in the summer, they can have a higher tendency to swarm if not kept under careful observation to verify that they have enough space; each hive can issue several swarms. Carniolans tend to get out earlier in the morning to start their daily forage, and they also stay out longer each evening, compared to other strains. Carniolan bees are also less prone to robbing than other types of bees. A Carniolan worker bee is also hygienic, working hard to keep a clean bee colony. No matter if you are looking for queen bees for pollination, backyard beekeeping or urban beekeeping; if you are looking for high quality Carniolan queen bees for your beehives, we have the best queens available!

Carniolan bees have a very good resistance to Varroa mites, wax moths and other honeybee pests. We do still recommend treating each spring and each fall against mites, however, since there is no such thing as a total resistance to the Varroa mite. Carniolan bees also have an excellent sense of direction, and tend to drift between hives less than other types of bees. They easily adapt to most climates and are able to overwinter successfully in smaller numbers, because they are good at conserving food stores; this makes them a better strain of bee in areas that have longer winters. Generally, Carniolan bees are darker in appearance, although they can have some tiger striping to them, or even a lighter coloring due to some crossed genetics. If you are looking for Carniolan honey bee queens for sale near me, Lappe's Bee Supply is the answer! We make buying a high quality queen bee easy with our online ordering process!

 

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  • 5
    Excellent queens

    Posted by David Jaremba on Apr 23, 2025

    The queens I got Last year overwintered in northern Michigan very nicely.. so I ordered more this year

  • 5
    Carniolan Queens

    Posted by Catherine Martineau on Apr 22, 2025

    My queens arrived next day with plenty of attendants. They were all in excellent condition. The shipping packaging was well done with each queen cage secured in the box. All three queens were hived withing a few hours and actively working thier hives.

  • 5
    Carniolan Queens

    Posted by Patrick Coyne on Apr 22, 2025

    Arrived in excellent condition.

  • 5
    new mated queens

    Posted by Mickey Brunelli on Apr 21, 2025

    I really like the carniolan breed, they are easy going .

  • 5
    4 carniolan queens

    Posted by Gene E Staggs on Apr 21, 2025

    All 4 queens and all attendant bees alive and frisky

  • 5
    No issues

    Posted by Andy on Apr 17, 2025

    Great customer services. There was an issue with USPS running late so was contacted by email with a choice to use UPS for faster shipping Excellent service. Healthy queens upon arrival.

  • 5
    Carniolian Queens

    Posted by Ben on Oct 11, 2024

    Very pleased with the communication with customer service and the queens doing well

  • 5
    Carniolan queen bees

    Posted by Veaceslav (Slava) Caireac on Aug 26, 2024

    I am thrilled with my buy; quick delivery, very active queens start laying eggs right the way. Definitely will buy more.

  • 5
    Carniolan Queen

    Posted by Rosemary Haroian on Aug 26, 2024

    Queen was shipped on expected date and arrived earlier, with no issues!

  • 5
    Mated queens

    Posted by Joe Elam on Aug 26, 2024

    Shipping was fast and packaged great. Post Office called me and they came with lots of attendants. Thanks

  • 5
    Queen Bee

    Posted by Kimberly Bright on Aug 26, 2024

    Delivery was quick! Bee came in excellent condition! Very happy!

  • 5
    Carniolan Queens

    Posted by Unknown on Aug 26, 2024

    I ordered 3 queens, they all arrived alive along with their nurse bees and the installs went smoothly. The queen cages are a little non standard, no cork, just a candy plug in a wooden cage. I was requeening a couple a of laying worker hives and taped over the candy plug for a couple days to ensure acceptance. Would recommend.

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