Product Overview
Where To Buy 2026 Shipped Russian Hybrid Live Queen Honey Bees
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.
Russian Hybrid Queens will be shipped from April 2026 through the end of August 2026. 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 within 2 hours of the time of arrival, we will not be able 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.
All of the queen honeybees that we sell 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 a 2026 online supplier company with listings for 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!
Russian 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. 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.
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.
Queen Honey Bees Terms & Conditions
Disclaimer: Queen Laying Pattern Verified As Fully Mated - Each queen's laying pattern is checked before shipment. These queens are provided with the understanding that the receiving hive is already in a state of decline or queenlessness (also splits or requeening). We assume no liability for the for the eventual success, failure, or recovery of the colony.
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 marking her to make it easier to spot her, you can choose whichever color you think would make her easy to find.
Russian Hybrid Honey Bees Information
Russian honey bees were brought to the United States in the mid 1990's as a new strain of honey bee, to be bred for their mite resistance. Russian Hybrid have been crossed with other breeds of bees to improve on certain genetic traits. Russian hybrid bees can be more mite resistant, although this resistance is not a guarantee and all bees should still be treated for mites, as there is no such thing as a completely mite resistant bee. Sometimes new queens introduced to a colony can take longer to begin laying eggs. In addition, it would be very advisable to leave the queen inside of the queen cage during introduction, as it can sometimes be difficult to get the workers to accept her. Russian honey bees can sometimes be slow to buildup in early spring, but once they get going, they are excellent at building up and maintaining a strong population, and have a high honey production.
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