Carniolan Mated Queen
 
PLEASE SELECT THE CORRECT SHIPPING OPTIONS FOR QUEENS - £8.00
 
ORDERS WILL BE CANCELLED IF THE WRONG SHIPPING OPTION IS SELECTED.
 
Please ensure your address is 100% correct. We cannot be held liable for any failed deliveries if the address is incorrect or you aren't available to sign for your delivery. 
 
To ensure you receive your queens at the right time, please select a date of DISPATCH. The queens will arrive the following day. If you select 'ASAP' we will send them as soon as they are available but queens that are ordered against specific dates will take priority. 
 
Queens are forecast to arrive the day AFTER 'day of dispatch'. We are unable to guarantee the day of delivery. They are sent on a fully tracked 24 hr service (Royal Mail Special Delivery pre 1pm) and MUST BE SIGNED FOR ON DELIVERY. 
 
You will receive email and text tracking notificiations of when your order will be delivered. We cannot take any liability for failed deliveries or dead queens when there is nobody in attendance to sign for the consignment on the first delivery attempt. 
 
By placing your order you agree to the terms detailed above. 
 
When ordering Carniolan Mated Queens you will receive the following:
 
A marked (yellow for 2022), open mated, Carniolan Mated Queen in a slow release queen introduction cage. Queens are not clipped and we do not offer this service. If you order more than one queen, they will arrive in separate cages (along with attendant bees).
A5 introduction postcard detailing successful methods for introduction and QR codes for support videos on our YouTube channel. 
Orders will arrive in a ventilated cardboard container. Your consignment will require a signature on arrival.
On placement of order you will receive an email confirmation. On the day of dispatch, you will receive a tracking code which can be tracked at Royal MaiL
 
Queens should be introduced to the beehives as soon as they are delivered. They can be introduced into a colony on the same day as dispatching the queen but fondant tabs should only be opened once the colony is hopelessly queenless. 
 
Here is a link to our YouTube channel on how to successfully introduce queens. We cannot be held liable for any failed queen introductions. Bees are wild creatures and successful introduction is never guaranteed.
 
https://youtu.be/KgzZ7Ik2Msk
 
Mated queen bees are natural creatures and although we can advise you on how to achieve the best introduction success, we cannot be held liable for any failed queen introductions.

The Carniolan honey bee (Apis mellifera carnica, Pollmann) is a subspecies of the western honey bee. The Carniolan honey bee is native to Slovenia, southern Austria, and parts of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria.
 
The bee is the subspecies of the Western honey bee that has naturalized and adapted to the Kočevje (Gottschee) sub-region of Carniola (now in Slovenia), the southern part of the Austrian Alps, Dinarides region, southern Pannonian plain and the northern Balkans. These bees are known as Carniolans, or "Carnies" for short, in English. At present this subspecies is the second most popular among beekeepers (after the Italian bee).
 
It is favored among beekeepers for several reasons, not the least being its ability to defend itself successfully against insect pests while at the same time being extremely gentle in its behavior toward beekeepers.
 
These bees are particularly adept at adjusting worker population to nectar availability. It relies on these rapid adjustments of population levels to rapidly expand worker bee populations after nectar becomes available in the spring, and, again, to rapidly cut off brood production when nectar ceases to be available in quantity. It meets periods of high nectar with high worker populations and consequently stores large quantities of honey and pollen during those periods. They are resistant to some diseases and parasites that can debilitate hives of other subspecies