3 Frame Nuc With Live Bees VSHxMite Mauler (PREORDER/PICKUP/SHIPS SPRING 2025)

Description: SHIPMENT IS FOR WHEN YOU SAY YOU NEED IT SHIPPED. LOCAL PICKUP IS FOR ANY TIME BETWEEN MID JANUARY. ON THIS LISTING, I ONLY HAVE MITE MAULER X VSH AVAILABLE. PLEASE REFER TO MY WEBSITE FOR CARNIOLANS, CORDOVANS, ITALIANS, AND INDIANA LEG CHEWERS. honeybeeresearchproject.com If you selected the shipment option, the bees will be shipped via a plastic carton 5-frame nuc box, to allow the 2 extra empty spaces to function as space for air flow, to prevent the bees from choking if cramped too far into the truck. Frames will be fixed in place to prevent them from moving around during transit, so please make sure you remove the frame fixers before working the hive. If ordering more than 1 nuc, shipping is individual, and cannot be combined, due to USPS restrictions. So, you may receive your item on separate days, or times. For any special requests(such as marking the queen a specific color), please message me with your order number. I can do this at no extra charge. IMPORTANT: BEFORE PURCHASING, PLEASE BE AWARE. **I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY ISSUES THAT ARISE DURING SHIPMENT THAT HAVE TO DO WITH STATE REGULATIONS. I SHIP THE NUCLEUS COLONY ASSUMING THE BUYER IS AWARE OF ANY STATUTORY OR REGULATORY RESTRICTIONS IN REGARDS TO THE SHIPMENT OF LIVE BEES FROM OTHER STATES. BY PURCHASING THIS LISTING YOU AGREE TO THIS.** MY QUEENS ARE CERTIFIED NON-AFRICANIZED FROM NORTHERN STOCK AS WELL AS HYBRIDIZED WITH SOUTHERN AND HAWAIIAN STOCK, WHICH CAN BE LOCALLY ADAPTED TO ANY CLIMATE IF INTRODUCED IN A TIMELY MANNER. **PLEASE DO NOT ORDER BEES IN THE DEAD OF WINTER. THEY WILL NOT MAKE IT.** ORDER BEES A FEW MONTHS BEFORE THE FIRST FROST, SO THEY CAN ACCLIMATE TO YOUR LOCAL TEMPERATURE AND ZONE. I HAVE NO DOUBT MY QUEENS CAN HANDLE OVERWINTERING IF THEY ARE GIVEN A CHANCE TO ACCLIMATE. Get a kickstart on next year's spring with these high-quality queens, proven to lay a good pattern with drawn comb, pollen, eggs and brood. This nuc box is a temporary box that MUST BE IMMEDIATELY TRANSFERRED to a larger 5, 8 or 10 frame box as these bees will swarm any day. These queens in particular are mostly Carniolian, with italian. They are very gentle queens. Born and raised in Florida, my bees originate from northern stock, which have great overwintering ability. Daughters of some of my fastest growing hives, with exceptional wax building ability and very low swarming tendency. Honey production ability and gentleness is also selected for, and these queens show exceptional promise. These queens have a tendency to hoard pollen even with a vast supply. These queens are a gentle cross between Italian and Carniolan, with the Italian being the main phenotype for this breeding project, attributing the most to their gentleness. The carniolan provides disease resistance, a longer tongue by nature, hive defense, and reduced levels of robbing. ORIGINS OF ALL MY MITE MAULERS x VSH: They were bred with Redline's Genetics and originated from Bob Carpenter's stock. Original VSH stock crossed via Artificial Insemination, including some Open-mated Carniolans, and other genetics sourced from multiple sources including Local, Harbo, Purdue University, and Olivarez Honeybees, as well as Hawaiian stock for pollination capability and honey productivity. These bees were made to WORK. You will receive 1 grafted, NATURALLY MATED queen bee with VSH type SMR, italian genotype, and a 3-frame nuc box with bees. VSH(Varroa Sensitive Hygiene)type SMR(Suppresses Mite Reproduction) is a genetic behavioral trait in which the worker offspring of the queen have a high chance of exhibiting mite reproduction suppression(SMR), which means the workers will uncap brood voluntarily when a female mite is detected in the brood, therefore stopping the life cycle of the varroa mite, as once the brood is uncapped the larvae and eggs of the mite are effectively shocked from temperature fluctuation, or removal and ultimately die. (LIMITED): If you would like your queen to be artificially inseminated instead with guaranteed genetics, please go into my page and select "Artificial Insemination Procedure", which will be an upcharge of 100 USD PER Queen, which is a lot cheaper than most breeders offer. My drone stock are VSH x Mite Mauler stock originally sourced from Purdue, Harbo and Olivarez Honeybees. You will be getting a mix of all these of my genetics from unrelated genetically-diverse hives for maximum characteristic variety. This is the best way. Length of queens are at nearly 1 inch, unmated. Queens are shipped Mondays and Tuesdays in order to guarantee timely arrival. **This listing is for a 3-frame Nuc to be shipped out any time between January 27 and March of 2025. QUEENS ARE CERTIFIED FREE OF AFRICANIZATION- HOWEVER, IF NATURALLY MATED OPTION IS SELECTED, I CANNOT GUARANTEE THE OFFSPRING WILL BE AFRICANIZATION-FREE. DESPITE THIS FACT, I OVERLOAD MY APIARIES WITH MY OWN DRONES ALL YEAR ROUND TO REDUCE THE CHANCES. SO FAR I HAVE NOT HAD ANY ISSUES. Please select the Instrumental Insemination option on my page if you would rather have an instrumentally inseminated queen, for guaranteed genetics. NOTE: During transport, queen bees have the ability to shrink their abdomen. This is normal, and it serves a purpose in nature. Queen bees can elongate/retract their abdomens at will depending on multiple factors such as: flight preparation, resources, laying activity, as well as when she is ready to swarm, in order to have better flight control. Please do not be alarmed if queen is smaller than listing mentioned. At about a week of being integrated into the hive, you should be able to see her true length under regular circumstances. Born and raised in Florida, one of the prime locations for mite infestation, which means that these queens are built to survive. No treatment necessary with these queens. Queens are from an 8+ year lineage of treatment-free survivor hives. Due to extremely limited supply, I cannot be responsible for the refund of your queen bee if she is lost in transit. When I send out the package, I have accomplished my responsibility as a seller. In the future, when my resources become more abundant, this will change, but for now, this is how it must be. In the case your queen arrives dead or is lost in transit, I can send a replacement. However, replacements are subject to availability. When I graft, I account for queens that are due to ship as replacements. Furthermore, I am not responsible for what happens upon introduction. Please make sure you know what you are doing upon introducing your queens. Otherwise, please refer to Youtube for how-to videos in queen introduction. Please watch my account and be on the lookout in the future for the launch of my website which will include research efforts, AI/II(Artificial/Instrumental Insemination), as well as improvements in stock and breeding lines in order to stay up to date with my genetic line improvements. My goal is to create a genetic line fully independent from miticides or treatments, by achieving multiple behavioral traits that deal with the varroa mite in multiple ways, including VSH, SMR, and MM(Mite Mauler). Please keep on the lookout for my grafted Mite Mauler x VSH hybridized queens, and for my artificially inseminated breeder stock at an affordable launch price. The goal is to distribute as many high quality strains of queens as possible in order to help the honeybee branch off of robust, mite resistant genetics, so that they can survive in the wild. Unfortunately, most wild honeybee colonies do not make it after splitting, due to increasing human dependence(use of miticides, feeders, and selection of stock that produce more than they have available), which create a dependent colony unable to survive on its own). The Honeybee is a versatile, productive, and multi-beneficial insect that must be encourage to take population on its own, as they have the potential to pollinate more efficiently than most other pollinators, especially upon natural selection over multiple generations. Honeybees are here to stay in the US. We should help them in their efforts to continue spreading, s one day these bees may be the one thing that saves our planet from global warming, due to their diverse diet and lack of pickiness to pollinate everything and anything they can, thus helping increase local flora in large quantities, which help trap carbon dioxide. LOSSES, RETURNS, & CANCELLATIONS: I do not offer refunds, returns, or cancellations at this time. I only offer replacements. Replacements are issued based on availability. For a replacement, the buyer MUST show pictures of the dead queen, in her cage, dead WITHIN 24 HOURS OF DELIVERY. Failure to provide proof during the 24 hour period is to automatically be assumed the queen died to another reason not related to shipment. If your queens die during transit and you prefer a full refund, a claim on USPS would have to be filed on your behalf. Otherwise, a replacement will be issued upon proof that the queen died in transit. Please note this is how it must be for now. As I am a startup business, I will be able to accomodate my customers better. For now, this is how we must operate. I apologize for the inconvenience. Please do NOT purchase from me if you are not confident you can solve these issues on your own.

Price: 200 USD

Location: Fort Lauderdale, Florida

End Time: 2025-01-01T05:29:22.000Z

Shipping Cost: 0 USD