2026 Nucs for Sale

For 2026, I will have several kinds of nucs available, each consisting of five medium depth frames, including adult bees, three frames of brood of varied ages (all of which are offspring of your marked queen), as well as frames of pollen and honey. You will take the nuc home in a plastic Pro Nuc box ($20), from which you can transfer it to an eight or ten frame medium depth box.

Overwintered nucs from SARE grant colonies. Began in spring 2025 from packages of Italian hybrid honey bees (Italian crossed with Carniolan and Buckfast, Gardner Apiaries), these colonies were hived on foundation and maintained according to the protocol of our SARE grant studying queen supersedure in packages of bees. None of these queens were superseded, and their colonies are being overwintered here in PA at the study site in Lower Gwynedd. In the 2025 season, all of these colonies drew at least three medium boxes of comb and made some honey. Price $350 + $20 = $370.
Overwintered nucs containing a locally raised (PA) 2025 queen, brood, pollen and honey. By definition “survivor” since it will have come through the 2025-2026 winter in PA, the five-frame medium nuc has a queen raised from my best local survivor stock, the queen mother having survived one to four years in SE PA. These nucs are more expensive due to my work caring for them in late Summer, Fall and Winter. They will be available as soon as brood rearing is well underway and populations are increasing in spring, which is weather dependent. These will be the earliest nucs I have available, likely the end of March, at about the same time that packages are available. However, in contrast to that of a package, the population of a nuc will rapidly increase, whereas the population of a package decreases for the first 4 weeks. Price $350 + $20 = $370.
Nucs with 2026 Carniolan queens from the Hawaiian Queen Company. Five frame medium nucs with marked queens, three frames of your queen’s brood, and two frames of pollen and honey. http://www.hawaiianqueen.com/our-queens-1.html Likely availability near the end of April. Price: $210 + $20 = $230.
- - - - Nucs with locally raised 2026 queens bred from local survivor mothers. Queen mothers may be of Italian, Carni, VSH or other desirable stock; all queen mothers have survived one to multiple winters here in SE PA. Five frames of bees, three frames of your queen’s brood, as well as frames of nectar and pollen. Likely availability is June-July. Price: $210 + $20 = $230.

See the following sites for a discussion of the pros and cons of starting a colony with a nuc vs a package:

http://www.centrecountybees.com/2011/02/where-to-get-bees-for-your-first-hive.html

https://extension.psu.edu/beekeeping-honey-bees?

I am PA licensed to sell Queens and Nucleus colonies. As part of this program, my queen rearing apiaries are annually inspected by the PA Department of Agriculture. I use no antibiotics or synthetic chemicals in my beekeeping operations.

To get on the nuc list, go to my web site: https://vincemasterbeekeeper.com/contact/

I do not take advance deposits, as I cannot guarantee availability in advance. Requests are honored on a first come, first served basis. Thank you for your interest! Vincent Aloyo

Honey for sale

The honey I have for sale is from my hives kept in various locations in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. The bees source it from a variety of local flowers that bloom in the spring and early summer. I strain but do not filter the honey, so it contains pollen from the source flowers. It is available in mason jar quarts (3 pounds) or gallon plastic jugs (12 pounds). Call or email: 484 557 4049, vincent.aloyo@gmail.com