Live Package Honey Bees with Naturally Mated Queen Vaccinated for AFB

Package bees comprising of a group of 10 000 to 12 000 bees, a queen, and honey and pollen bee bread as food for in transit bee sustenance shipped to beekeepers to start new apiculture colonies in the spring or strengthen existing apiaries.

Fill your beehives for fruit, vegetable and seed agriculture pollination and to harvest honey, honeycomb, beeswax and royal jelly.

Package bees are used to quickly expand a bee yard for profitable market beekeeping or to start a new apiary.

• Calm, gentle Italian bees. 
• Contains approximately 3 lb of worker bees and drone bees.
• Young, naturally mated, marked queen included.
• The queen has been given the vaccine conditionally licensed by the USDA and CFIA, developed by Dalan Animal Health to prime larvae against mortality from Paenibacillus larvae. This bacteria is the causative agent of American Foulbrood Disease (AFB), a highly contagious and devastating disease that destroys the developing bee larvae. A vaccinated queen allows eggs to begin building up immunity before they hatch, staying ahead of hive health threats and protects the entire bee culture yard.
• Insurance and shipping included with all packages.
  
• Product of the U.S.A.