Varroa Sensitive Hygiene (VSH) Honey Bees for Sale pickup at our bee farm near i Watertown Minnesota June 10th 2026. Ideal for beginning beekeepers! Each nuc contains Four Deep Langstroth style frames of honeybees and capped brood with a new recently mated, laying VSH queen bee and plastic feeder in a recyclable plastic Pro Nuc Box. We use breeder queens from our friends at VP Queens that are the main queen breeders of VSH honeybees in the USA. So these queens are F1 hybrids that express the VSH traits quite well. Varroa Sensitive Hygiene is a behavior that can be selected for in honeybees where they open capped brood that is infected with fertile female varroa mites ending the mites reproductive cycle You provide the hive bodies, stand, covers and the skill. We do not ship nucs You pick the nuc up at our bee farm 2425 County Road 127 Delano, MN 55328 which is actually closer to Watertown MN These nucs will be made up in Minnesota in early May from our own bees and queens we graft and raise from our own stock as described above. The cost of each nuc is $200 with an unmarked queen. Marked queens are $25 extra and that option can be selected on the product page. The tentative date for pickup at our farm is June 10th. As we get into May, we will confirm by email the exact dates and times for pickup Please note Nuc pickup is always early in the morning or later in the day at dusk. Contact us by email for special pickup needs. Warranty: We guarantee a new 2026 laying VSH queen in each nuc and will inspect each one before pick up. If you find you still received a queenless or bad nuc you must contact us within ten days by email [email protected] to get a free replacement queen. No replacements or adjustments are available after ten days. If you need to cancel you order, you will receive a refund if you request the cancellation by March 1, 2026 by emailing us at [email protected]. After 03/01/2026 nuc deposits and purchases are not refundable as these are made to order.
