Product Overview
Italian Hybrid (Gentle Breed) Queen Honey Bees For Sale
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 bees to take care of her, the queen will not be able to survive and will die. These mated queens are for queening an existing hive or splits in the spring time.
Please place a separate order for equipment; queen bees need to be shipped on their own, so any equipment and/or supplies will be billed for shipping separately by our website, and the shipping will be billed as UPS Next Day Air.
Cancellations are not accepted within 3 days of the selected ship out date.
Lappe's Bee Supply offers some of the best mated Italian Hybrid queen bees for sale online! Queens will be shipped from April through the end of August. Queens will arrive in California mini queen cages or 3 hole queen cages. Regardless of whichever type of queen cage your queen arrives in, there will be a candy plug already in one end filled with queen candy. We recommend leaving this plug in when placing your new queen into the hive. Lappe's Bee Supply is not responsible for anything that happens because the bee keeper makes the choice to remove the candy plug or the queen candy from the queen cage. It is always better to allow her to stay in the queen cage with the candy plug intact, to give the worker bees time to get familiar with her pheromone and get her out of the cage themselves.
Queen honey bees from Lappe's Bee Supply are guaranteed to be alive upon arrival (certain conditions apply). Queen replacement for queens DOA is always at the discretion of LBS and needs to be reported right upon arrival; please contact us with the details. If not reported at the time of arrival we are unable to replace or refund any queen bees. We adhere to time of arrival as noted on UPS tracking numbers. Acceptable methods of contacting us include phone and email.
If you are looking for where to buy Italian queen bees for sale near me, look no further than Lappe's Bee Supply! Each summer we ship thousands of queen bees to all across the USA. We work hard at supplying the best queen bees to our customers. All of the Italian queens for sale at Lappe's Bee Supply are young, naturally mated superb queens. We DO NOT clip the queens wings. Place your order online to buy your queen honey bees, and if you have any questions, please feel free to contact us - we are always happy to speak with you! Lappe's Bee Supply is an online agriculture supplier company with listings for queen bees for sale 2026, choose from several different strains of queen honey bees for sale.
Queens cannot survive for long outside of honeybee hives! Your queen needs to be inside of the beehive where the worker bees can feed her and give her water and food. It is imperative to introduce the queen as soon as possible after being delivered by UPS. Please do not leave queen bees sitting on the counter overnight!
Italian Hybrid Queen Bees Shipping Information
All orders of 3 or more queens qualify for free shipping! Free shipped queen orders of 3 or more queen bees will be sent out through UPS Next Day Air, and should arrive to you the next day. You need to be home when UPS delivers your queen(s), to prevent your bees from sitting outside in an inhospitable environment.
Right after your queens ship out, usually mid - late afternoon, we will send a shipping confirmation to your email address that will contain your tracking number. Sometimes this email can end up in your spam folder, so please be sure to check there as well. It is every customer's responsibility to check on the shipping progress of their queens, so they can be ready when the bees arrive. It is at our discretion to replace queens, based on what events took place. Important - Please Note: if you have multiple email addresses, please be sure to verify which email address you used during checkout. Our system will send the shipment information to the email you listed when placing your order.
Orders of 30 or more queens will ship by UPS Next Day Air Early for the free shipping method. All orders of 25 queens will have 1 extra queen added to the order, to account for any queen loss during shipping. We photograph all orders for our records before shipping. During any time that UPS suspends their service guarantee, Lappe's Bee Supply is unable to replace queens if they die due to a delayed shipment.
During any time that UPS suspends their service guarantee, Lappe's Bee Supply is unable to replace queens if they die due to a delayed shipment.
We are able to ship queen honey bees through UPS Next Day Air Early or UPS Next Day Air to only the lower 48 United States and Alaska (Alaska shipments do not qualify for free shipping, Next Day Air will deliver in 2 business days); we can not ship queens to Hawaii, and we do not do International or Canada shipments.
We offer free shipping on orders of 3 or more mated Italian Hybrid queen bees for sale Alabama AL, Arizona AZ, Arkansas AR, California CA, Colorado CO, Connecticut CT, Delaware DE, Florida FL, Georgia GA, Idaho ID, Illinois IL, Indiana IN, Iowa IA, Kansas KS, Kentucky KY, Louisiana LA, Maine ME, Maryland MD, Massachusetts MA, Michigan MI, Minnesota MN, Mississippi MS, Missouri MO, Montana MT, Nebraska NE, Nevada NV, New Hampshire NH, New Jersey NJ, New Mexico NM, New York NY, North Carolina NC, North Dakota ND, Ohio OH, Oklahoma OK, Oregon OR, Pennsylvania PA, Rhode Island RI, South Dakota SD, South Carolina SC, Tennessee TN, Texas TX, Utah UT, Vermont VT, Virginia VA, Washington WA, West Virginia WV, Wisconsin WI, Wyoming WY, in the United States USA.
Queen Honey Bees Terms & Conditions
Queen Marking
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 2026 is white, but if you are only getting a marked queen bee to make it easier to spot her in the beehive, you can choose whichever color you think would make her easy to find.
Italian Honey Bees Information
Italian hygienic Hybrid honey bees are the most recommended for beginning bee keeping, because they are very gentle and easy for the beekeeper to work with, and they are excellent pollinators. Because of these characteristics, the Italian Hybrid bee is considered to be the best all purpose bee for keeping bees. These queens have been used a lot by our customers in the southern states to requeen swarms of Africanized honey bees. Our Italian Hybrid queen bees are extremely more gentle than Southern raised Italian queen bees; Hybrid bees have a much better disposition towards human interaction and are easier to manage.
The queens lay a lot of eggs starting early in the spring, which makes them build up their populations early, and they are able to maintain the high populations in the bee hives through out the summer months. This in turn increases the amount of foraging that they are able to do, for high honey production during honey flows. Another benefit of having a strong colony is that the bees are better able to resist wax moths and other bee colony pests more efficiently. Italian Hybrid honeybees can easily adapt to most climates, they overwinter well, and the worker bees are also good at keeping a clean hive. One downside with the higher populations and honey production is that if you don't keep an eye on them, they can fill up the brood nests and honey supers quickly and prepare to swarm.
Italian Hybrid honey bees also have a very good Varroa mite resistance, due to their combined genetics between the VSH Minnesota Hygienic Italian bees and Carniolan bees; however, we still strongly recommend treating your bees for mites every spring and every fall, since there is no such thing as a completely mite resistant honey bee. Treating them will get rid of the mites, which will make the bees healthier and stronger, and will result in better colonies and higher honey productions. If you are looking for Italian Hybrid gentle breed honey bee queens for sale near me, Lappe's Bee Supply is the answer! We make buying a high quality queen bee easy with our online ordering process!
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