Summer F1 Buckfast National Nucleus Colonies (Paynes Poly National)
6-Frame Buckfast, National Nucleus Colony (Paynes Poly Nuc) – 2025 F1 Buckfast Queen
Experience the vitality and productivity of our 6-frame Buckfast Nucleus Colony, the perfect addition to your apiary whether you're an experienced beekeeper or just beginning your journey. Each nuc is meticulously prepared to ensure a healthy, thriving colony, featuring a newly mated queen from this season to guarantee robust future growth.
Why Choose Our Buckfast Nucs?
Our Buckfast nucs are known for their gentle temperament, making them ideal for beekeepers of all experience levels. Bred from carefully selected stock, our colonies exhibit excellent honey production, resistance to common bee diseases, and superior overwintering capabilities.
What You’ll Receive:
- 6 Frames: Includes a balanced mix of brood, pollen, and honey stores, ensuring your bees have everything they need to thrive in their new home.
- This Year’s Mated Queen: A newly mated queen from this season, selected for her productivity and calm nature, helping to establish a strong, cohesive colony.
- Strong, Healthy Bees: Our nucs are created from colonies that are rigorously inspected and treated for disease, ensuring you receive a healthy and vigorous colony.
Our Promise:
We take pride in our bees and are committed to delivering nucs that will exceed your expectations. Our bees are raised in the heart of the Jurassic World Heritage site in Dorset, where they forage on a rich diversity of local flora, contributing to the exceptional strength and resilience of our colonies. Whether you’re looking to expand your apiary or start anew, our Buckfast nucs are the perfect choice for sustainable beekeeping.
Pre-Order Now:
Due to high demand, we recommend pre-ordering your nuc early in the season. Nucs will be available for collection or Delivery from April.
- 6 x DN4 frames of bees (with a minimum of 3 frames containing brood in all stages - BIAS)
- 1 x Queen as per the description.
- 1 x Paynes Poly Nucleus with a ventilated lid and side feeder less than 8 months old
- All frames and foundation less than 12 months old, marked green to indicate year they were put into service
All Paynes Nucs come with free shipping included.
We use 24-hour Royal Mail Special Delivery (Pre 1pm) with Signature REQUIRED.
Nucs are guaranteed to arrive alive. Please note, this service cannot deliver through a letterbox.
Nucs are expected to arrive the day AFTER dispatch. However, we cannot guarantee the exact day or time of delivery.
We guarantee the live arrival of your nucs.
Please ensure your address is 100% accurate. We are not liable for failed deliveries due to incorrect addresses or if you are unavailable to sign for your delivery.
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