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Honey bee colonies with marked, mated, 2025 queen and drawn comb - $249 (Sharonville)
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Delivery available ($1/mile, $30 min, bring me your hardware prior), or participate in the installation at my place and take them home same day.
Varroa mites suppressed (oxalic acid vapor). Small hive beetles too.
A trivial deposit ($1) will hold your place in line.
Pictured is a typical queen, just marked blue AFTER a good laying pattern was established in the NUC. Her capped cell was found in the upper deep box of a multiple box hive. I use the Demaree Method to prevent swarming and increase colony size. When I mistakenly move eggs upstairs (as opposed to just capped brood), they'll make new queens up there (the incumbent queen is below a queen excluder, in the bottom deep). I pull that frame out, and others with enough bees (of different ages) and resources, and put it in a new, ventilated, shaded, temporarily sealed (with screen) hive, to make a new colony.
I'm very serious about varroa suppression. The last photo shows the vacuum plenum I use on top, which pulls oxalic acid vapor (fine dust) up through the perforated bottom board (for Small Hive Beetle suppression) and the boxes. Takes about 10 seconds per box (here 30 seconds) for dust to initially show up in the plenum. After double that time (1 minute here), it's very dense (thorough kill of exposed mites).