Gentle Carniolan Queen Honey Bees - Shipped Starting April 2020
We are currently taking pre-orders for shipping out queens beginning in April, 2020. Order now to benefit from 2019 prices & get your name on the list to get the first available shipping dates! Orders usually get booked through the end of May.
We will contact you by email closer to April to set up a shipping date that will work for you. First orders placed get first choice at shipping dates.
PLEASE NOTE:When starting a new bee hive, you need to purchase a package of bees with a queen, not just a queen. Without the 2 or 3 pounds of worker bees, the queen will not be able to survive and will die.
All orders of 3 queens or more qualify for free shipping! Free shipped queen orders of 3-9 will be sent out through the USPS. Shipping times vary between 2-3 days, depending on your location. It has been taking an extra day longer in some instances. The queen shipment will be marked to be held at your post office, and they will give you a call at the number that you specify to alert you to come and pick them up. You need to pick them up the day that they call you so the queens survive. Lappe's Bee Supply and Honey Farm is not responsible for any queens that are not picked up in time, or for any queens that are delivered to mailboxes at the customer's request to the post office.
Orders of 10-19 queens will be shipped for free by UPS 2nd Day Air, and orders of 20 or more queens will be shipped for free by UPS Next Day Air.
We can ship by USPS, UPS Next Day Air or UPS 2nd Day Air. All shipped queens are sent out at customer's risk. We can not insure queen honey bees.
We can mark queens for an additional fee of $4 each.Please let us know which color you would like to have her marked. The International Color for 2020 is blue, but if you are only marking her to make it easier to spot her, you can choose whichever color you think would make her easy to find. If you want your queens marked but do not make a color selection, the current year's color will be used.
Queen honey bees cannot survive for long outside of the hive! Your queen needs to be inside of the hive where the bees can feed her and give her water. Please plan on putting your queen into your hive shortly after getting her. Please do not leave queen bees sitting on the counter overnight!
We recommend placing your queens into your hives as soon as you receive them; it is hard on the queens to leave them sitting for awhile without being inside the hive.
Queen is young, naturally mated and unmarked.
We DO NOT clip the queens wings.
We can only ship queens to the United States at this time; we do not do international shipments for queens.
Place your order online to purchase your queen honey bees. Give us a call at 641-728-4361 or send us an email with any questions that you may have - we are always happy to speak with you! Lappe's Bee Supply and Honey Farms is a 2020 supplier company of queen honey bees for sale and have several listings for different types of queens to buy.
Current Stock:
Release Date:
CURRENTLY TAKING PRE-ORDERS FOR SHIPPING BEGINNING IN APRIL, 2020
Bulk Pricing
From 11 to 25 --
Discount per item ($34.00)
From 26 to 49 --
Discount per item ($32.00)
From 50 to 99 --
Discount per item ($30.00)
From 100 to 0 --
Discount per item ($28.00)
Once again I've purchased Carniolan Queens from Lappe's and once again I'm very pleased with both their service and quality of queens. Received my queens within 3-days of placing order and after their first week in the hive are already producing eggs. Happy customer from SE Missouri.
Posted by D. Childers, Oct 1st 2019
Great service
5/5
I've ordered several queen bees from this supplier with no issues. The queen arrived well protected. Great price as well.
Posted by Stjulian Cox, Aug 29th 2019
Carniolan Queens
5/5
This time I only ordered two queens for late package queen replacement. Again, arrived happy, healthy and ready to go. In fact, they were bigger than queens I’ve gotten in the past and therefore, ready to go! Will continue to order these queens.
Posted by Jill S, Aug 28th 2019
Carniolan Queen
5/5
This was my first bee order in 9 years of beekeeping. I was very pleased with the online ordering process, simple to use and easy to understand. Queen arrived right on time at post office marked as promised. Had her in my hands within 15 min. Great packaging for safe handling. Queen was vigorous and well attended by nurse bees. Queen was laying within one day of release. I definitely will order again. Great service.
Posted by David Draker, Aug 28th 2019
Queens
5/5
Great queens and good service.
Highly recommended.
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Posted by Michael Thompson, Aug 13th 2019
Carniolan Queens
5/5
They arrived quite happy and healthy with a huge retinue of assistants
Posted by Jill S., Jul 30th 2019
Queen bee
5/5
They shipped the Queen when I asked for them to ship it. I delayed shipping because I was going to be out of town. She came earlier than expected and was very lively and was ready to get out of her cage when I was hiving her.
Posted by Thomas Gillen, Jul 23rd 2019
Carniolan Queen
5/5
Amazingly fast shipping. She was shipped out on a Monday afternoon and arrived at my post office, in a small town in Western Colorado, Wednesday morning.
The one sided cage and her dark coloring, made it difficult to inspect her, so I had to assume that she was in the cage and healthy. My workers seemed to accept her in the cage, without much issue. After 3 days, the candy plug was still mostly intact. By day 5, the plug was gone and I found her on a frame doing her royal duties. She appeared smallish yet healthy and active.
All in all a great experience, one I will gladly repeat, if needed.
Posted by Fred Andersen , Jul 20th 2019
3 Carnolians
5/5
The queens are happily ruling in there hives
Posted by Teresa Wiebe, Jul 15th 2019
Carniolian Queen
5/5
She came looking happy and healthy and on the three day check was easily found happily working her way around her new realm. There was a need to change the shipping after the order was placed, and this was handled very kindly and competently. Couldn't be more pleased. Thanks to all concerned.
Posted by Karen, Jul 9th 2019
Great Purchase
5/5
Purchased (2) queens. They arrived quickly and healthy. They have been great layers (very tight brood) so far and I am definitely going to purchase from Lappe's again.
Posted by John Monaghan, Jul 6th 2019
Carniolan Queens
5/5
Easy purchase and scheduling for shipment. Arrived alive and were healthy. Good purchase
Posted by Ben, Jul 3rd 2019
Carniolan Queen
5/5
Fair shipping price. Queen arrived promptly, healthy appearing with many attendants. Would buy again.
Posted by Tom Gorsky, Jul 1st 2019
Queens
5/5
Ordered with one Italian, Great queens.
Posted by Jeffrey, Jun 25th 2019
Carniolan queen
5/5
My queen was shipped on Tuesday and I received her on Thursday. She had several attendants and all were active. I had removed the old queen from the hive earlier in the day and the bees were very happy to see a new queen. 3 days later they had released her from the cage and she was happily crawling around on the comb. Overall, a great experience.
Posted by Cathy Bauder, Jun 11th 2019
Carniolan queen
5/5
Had a queenless hive.
Ordered Carniolan queen Sunday night was placing it in the hive Wednesday morning.
Awesome service. A+
Posted by Jeff Griffin, Jun 10th 2019
Carniolan queen
5/5
Second time I ordered this type of queen bee because of the impressive one I got the first time. This queens are egg laying machines.
Posted by Maxwell Smart, Jun 9th 2019
Great Service
5/5
We ordered a replacement queen because the queen that came with our packaged bees from another company wasn't doing what needs to be done. We notice that there were no eggs or larvae in the hive. There were several queen cells that weren't used. So this told us that the queen that we received was old and needed to be replaced. Our order came a day earlier than stated and we were please. Arrive packaged securely and we were able to pick it up from the post office when it arrived. They have the best prices as well. Will definitely be ordering from this company again.
Posted by StJulian Cox, Jun 6th 2019
Carniolan queen
5/5
I re iced me queen and I work third shift si I banked her and went to work it was 2 days before I could check on her. She was out of the shipping cage and had already layed 3 frames of eggs. She is a absolute egg laying machine. I ordered two more that will be here today
Posted by Maxwell Smart, Jun 6th 2019
Royalty Has Arrived
5/5
Received my two marked Queens, really pleased with the wonderful service, they were packaged really well and arrived in a timely fashion. Really good looking healthy girls, will be doing more business Lappes.
Posted by Mark Kersh , Jun 5th 2019
Carniolan queens
5/5
Queens arrived on time queens appear to be very healthy are installed in hives and laying great
Posted by Wilma, Jun 5th 2019
Carnolian queen
5/5
Arrived in great condition. Installed and laying.
Posted by Michael e coil, Jun 5th 2019
Carniolan Queens
5/5
Good looking queens all arrived healthy and a laying nicely.
Posted by Corey , Jun 4th 2019
queen
5/5
satisfied
Posted by orville williams, Jun 2nd 2019
Queen bees
5/5
Arrived when they were supposed to and in great shape. They were immediately accepted in both hive and started laying eggs immediately.
Posted by Daren, May 30th 2019
Queens
5/5
Awesome. Great service
Posted by Jerry Alberte, May 27th 2019
Queens
5/5
I ordered two queens for splits. They arrives with plenty of a sugar plug and 3-4 attendants. They were in excellent condition, and are doing well in their new hives.
Posted by Mark E Moberly, May 21st 2019
My queens and their court
5/5
My queens came packaged nicely with plenty of ladies in attendance. They were put in their new home by that same evening evening before the rains came. When I checked 3 days later all three were out. I will check again this weekend for eggs. The hives have settled down nicely.
Posted by Sharon Heivilin, May 21st 2019
Carniolan and Saskatraz queens
5/5
Best place in years to purchase queens. Received 14-queens total - all in perfect condition. Contact at Lappe’s (Kim) is excellent to work with. Quick and timely service just as they described. Recommend Lappe’s to anyone. I’m a happy customer from SE Missouri.
Posted by David Childers , May 21st 2019
Queens
5/5
Beautiful, healthy queens and great service.The only folks I now order from.
Posted by Resa Sawyer, May 16th 2019
Queens
5/5
Very impressed ordered 3 queens all arrived superfast and in great shape!
Will order again
Posted by Chris Brownell, May 9th 2019
/reat Healthy Queens
5/5
My queens arrived healthy and very active. Shipping was quick and the package was well marked for the post office. Although I don't recommend it I had to wait 5 days to install my new queens. A drop of honey a day and these queens were as lively on the day I installed them as the day I got them. Lessor quality queens might not have survived. I highly recommend these to anyone looking for healthy well mated queens.
Posted by Stephen Meyer, May 8th 2019
Queens
5/5
I ordered 3 Carniolan Queens, they arrived on schedule ,alive and healthy. the package and labeling was awesome. Very Pleased !!!
Posted by Tommy White, May 8th 2019
Queens
5/5
I ordered 3 Carniolan queens from Lappe Bee Supply. They Shipped when promised. They arrived in good condition. I liked the labels ouside the shipping box and inside the box also. Very professional for a those that have never ordered queens. I introduced the new queens on Saturday and the next Wednesday they were out of the cages and meeting the family. Thanks for the prompt service. High Quality!!
Posted by Clifford McGhghy, Apr 24th 2019
3 Carniolan queens.
5/5
Very happy with my purchase. All three of my queens arrived in perfect condition and on time. I will be doing more buisiness in the future. I highly recommend. Thanks Lappes!
Posted by Joseph Rac, Apr 17th 2019
Queen
5/5
We ordered a marked queen and she shipped earlier than expected and so arrived a day early which was great. The website was easy to find exactly what I wanted and checkout was fast. We will definitely use Lappe’s again in the future.
Posted by Debi sparks , Apr 17th 2019
Queens
5/5
Bought 3 carniolan queens, all arrived alive and in good shape. 2 days after install, all 3 are laying like crazy. Will def by from lappes again! Thanks so much
Posted by John, Apr 15th 2019
Carnolian Queens
5/5
I ordered 2 Queen Carnolians from Lappe's. The queens were shipped (tracking supplied!) on time and arrived when promised. Each queen and her workers were very healthy and ready to work. Both are doing a fine job in their new hives.
Posted by Roland Cutlip, Apr 15th 2019
Queens
5/5
Arrived alive and in good shape installed in hive doing well. Will buy again if need queens!
Posted by David, Apr 15th 2019
Carnie queens
5/5
Ordered 3 Carnie queens, shipped on time, received on time. All three queens and their attendants looked very good, active and healthy.
Posted by Jeffrey, Sep 12th 2018
Carnolian Queen and attendants
5/5
Came on the day promised, with tracking all the way, perfectly healthy and ready to save my hive!
Posted by Greg Ircink , Aug 30th 2018
Carnolian queens
5/5
I received them nice and lively and they were all three released within three days. I will check on them in three weeks to see how they have done
Posted by Matthew Klump, Aug 21st 2018
New queens
5/5
This is my first year bee keeping and I lost A Queen. Yes lost dont know where she went lol. No one local had any. I was so afraid to spend/ was $90 on 3 Queen online but I was desperate . I only needed 1 so I said let me make up a Nuc. And was going to get 2 For the price of shipping 3 is a no brainer . I got them in 2 days after shipped. No dead workers ,all the bees were so lively they look better than the ones I got local in the past. They started laying in 2 day after they came out the cage. I will check them this Saturday to see brood pattern . I give this Queen a A+ at this point
Posted by Dennis , Aug 14th 2018
Carniolan queen
5/5
She survived the stress of shipping and the bees love her.
Posted by Beeboy, Aug 14th 2018
Carniolan queen
5/5
She has a great brood pattern.
Posted by Beeboy, Aug 14th 2018
Perfect!
5/5
Queen got her in perfect condition. Packaging couldn’t have been any better. Will buy all my queen from here
Posted by Eric , Aug 10th 2018
Carniolian queens
5/5
i ordered 12 Carniolian queens and all were in great shape when I received them, not even a single attendant was dead. I placed them in nukes and 5 days later all 12 were released and laying. I could not be happier with the good service and quality. I would recommend them to anyone and I will definitely be ordering more in the future.
Posted by Kevin O’Donnell, Aug 9th 2018
Queen bee order
5/5
They shipped promptly I liked the fact they didn't go to the post office until late afternoon they arrived when they were suppose to in very good order.
Posted by lorie oneil, Aug 7th 2018
Carniolan Queen Bee
5/5
I I purchased this queen to make a split. The bees were queenless for 24 hours and immediately accepted her. I released her the next day and checked on her the next day and she was doing well. I would buy from here again in the future.
Posted by Donald , Jul 25th 2018
Saskatraz Queens
5/5
This is the way to run a bee business!!!! Great Queens !!! Great customer service ! !
Posted by Chris Davs, Jul 20th 2018
Carolina queen bees
5/5
Excellent Service .
Posted by Slawomir Matyjaszczyk, Jul 4th 2018
Queens
5/5
Arrived well packaged and great condition !!! Thank you Lappes
Posted by Ricky Boatright, Jun 29th 2018
Queen Bees
5/5
Shipped well in box with holes and cage glued to box. Well marked queen as ordered, looked healthy and active. Will definitely order again in the future as needed. Thanks!
Posted by Pete H, Jun 14th 2018
Queen bee
5/5
Very satisfied.
Posted by Randy Pressel, Jun 13th 2018
Queen bees
5/5
My queen bees I ordered was my first time, they where in perfect condition when I picked them up from post office. Will return again to buy more queen bees.
Posted by Richard Toppings , Jun 12th 2018
Queen
5/5
She's healthy and happy in her new home.
Posted by Clint, Jun 12th 2018
carniolan
5/5
Best price! fast shipping! Queens working very good!!! Thank you!!!
Posted by Sergey Mokritskiy, Jun 6th 2018
Carniolan Queen
5/5
The queens arrived active and health. When the bees let her out she went right to work laying eggs. All three are equally working. I will buy again when requesting. Thanks
Posted by Shawn Sprague, Jun 5th 2018
Great queens!
5/5
Queen arrived in good shape the bee took to her right away. Had her out in three days checked today she is starting to lay would sure order more queen in the future and ordering was a breeze
Posted by Franklin M., May 30th 2018
Queen purshase
5/5
I panicked and ordered a queen I really didn't need, I didn't find out until I went to put her in the Hive. I made an emergency split, pretty small and earlier than I wanted, but I babyed them and the queen is doing her job, just add a second broad box. I will definitely do business with Lappes in the future. Good service, well, packaged, quality product.
Posted by John Blackstock, May 26th 2018
Happy queens
5/5
I ordered two queens they are doing really well
Posted by Robert, May 25th 2018
Queens
5/5
My first order of queens arrived exactly as promised and in great shape. Have already placed a new order. Thanks for the great product and service.
Posted by Larry , May 23rd 2018
Queens
5/5
Received 3 queens in good shape and on time. I checked the queen cages in 3 days but the bees had only chewed through about 2/3 of the candy plug. I loosened the screen on each box and released 3 very happy queens.
Thanks
Posted by Charles DeVier, May 23rd 2018
Carniolan queens
5/5
Queens were shipped on time and seem to be doing well.
Posted by Joe, May 23rd 2018
Happy queens
5/5
I have ordered from lappes bee supplies a number of times and am always very happy with the service and products. I just ordered and received 3 queen bees with workers. I overnighted them. They looked healthy and ready to go into my hives. The packages were candy filled which made the release process painless.
Posted by Brian Hampton, May 19th 2018
Carni Queen
5/5
First off ordering was simple and easy. Customer service was excellent. The 3 queens arrived packaged very good and the queens were in great health. All 3 were accepted within 3 days. I looked at my frames on day 5 and fresh eggs were laid in all the open cells. They dont waste time. I'll definitely order again from Lappes.
Posted by Christopher Stankus, May 16th 2018
Queen Bee purchase
5/5
Queen promptly arrived by UPS in fine shape
Will use Lappe’s in future amd recommend to my circle of bee keepers
Posted by Fred Ziel, May 16th 2018
Queen
5/5
Queen arrived well packaged and healthy. Nicely marked for me. Ended up not needing her but able to give to my Master Bee Keeper and he placed in a nuk. She is doing well despite having gone through the gauntlet with my failed package. Tough stock! Would purchase again.
Posted by Jill S, May 9th 2018
receved queen & attendance ok
5/5
placed her in a real week hive prob. less than a pound of bees im'm feeding them they have honey & sugar water she has laid there r larve n the frames, honey & polland hope they do good ?? trying we will c
Posted by ron, May 9th 2018
Carniolan Queens
5/5
The queens were shipped as promised and arrived in good condition.
After properly introducing them to their new hives they were accepted and are demonstrating good laying properties.
Posted by Michael Bradash, May 8th 2018
Carniolan Queens
5/5
Excellent company to do business with. Ordered ten queens. I requested special handling instructions and they were happy to accommodate me. Very prompt and professional. I would highly recommend.
Posted by Michael Bradash, Apr 18th 2018
Queens
5/5
Queens arrived nicely packaged in good health. 2 of 3 are laying. 3rd one left with my bees so I can’t comment on it. Lol. Great service and communication from Lappes.
Posted by Lynn Berry, Apr 18th 2018
Queen bees
5/5
Shipped as indicated. All arrived alive and healthy. Placed in nucs right away but havent had time to check laying ability.
Posted by JRB, Apr 10th 2018
queen bee
5/5
very good service and the queen is laying like crazy
Posted by Reed, Apr 10th 2018
Queen Honey Bees
5/5
Queens arrived alive and well... very well packaged, thank you... look forward to my future shipment... couldn't be happier...
Posted by Frank, Sep 29th 2017
Carnioan queens
5/5
All queens and attendants arrived live and healthy and were easily accepted in nucs.
Posted by Alexandra Bartsch, Jul 27th 2017
Carniolan Queen
5/5
Nice big healthy looking queens that wen right to laying.
Posted by Dee, Jul 9th 2017
Queen Bees
5/5
Queens arrived on time and in great condition. Excellent delivery and customer service. I am a very satisfied customer!
Posted by George, Jul 6th 2017
Carniolan Queens
5/5
First time buyer of 3 Carniolan Queens. They arrived healthy and active a day ahead of schedule. Released into nucs and were laying nice brood pattern in days, indicating to me that rearing and mating was done correctly. Very Satisfied! Nice Queens!
Posted by George, Jun 20th 2017
Scott Meisenburg
5/5
This is the best deal I've found online for queens.
They shipped on Tuesday and arrived alive and well on Thursday, to Casper, WY.
Well packed. Thanks for a great shopping experience y'all.
Posted by Scott Meisenburg, Jun 20th 2017
Carniolan queens
5/5
My order was nicely packaged, the queens looked great, shipped just when they said. Great service.
Posted by Kurt, Jun 6th 2017
Carniolan Queen Bee
5/5
Our new queen was shipped immediately after we purchased her and received within 48 hours. We inserted her into the hive, released her a few days later and are already seeing fresh larvae. Yeah!!
Posted by Lisa Adkins, Jun 1st 2017
Queens
5/5
I purchased 5 carniola queens. They arrived on schedule healthy and ready to be place in hive. They sent a follow up email a week later from Kim to check on the order. Love that. Will absolutely buy from them again!
Posted by Teresa, May 26th 2017
Queens
5/5
Shipping was very fast(only live in the next state but still very fast). The queens arrived in great shape. Dropped them in hives and they took over and layed like crazy. Will definitely be buying more.
Posted by HLH, May 23rd 2017
Carniolan Queens
4/5
I ordered 3 queens 2 showed up alive. The one that was dead only had one attendant whit her. They shipped out another queen a sap. All are laying machines. Very pleased with outcome of everything. Thanks
