Our Queen Bees

We put a lot of effort, research, pride and time into our queen bees.

We have an extremely diverse range of Instrumentally Inseminated Breeder Queens with a focus on production, commercial viability, temperament, diversity and Hygienic Behaviour as our primary selection.  

We produce only small stripey Queens with excellent performance.  

Golden super calm queens are not our game - sorry

With class leading results and timing for pin testing and unhealthy brood odour assay selection backed by Australia's leading insemination technician - the results have to be experienced to be believed.  the three links below show our hygienic testing and collaboration to make this possible.

Unhealthy Brood odour assay - www.opterabees.com

Bee Genetics- www.beegenetics.com.au

weimar pin test - www.pin-test.com/en/

All F1 queens are direct daughters of instrumentally inseminated breeder queens - 

All Prices are including GST.

Instrumentally Inseminated Breeder queen 90 days old tested - $1400

F1 Selected high expressing Hygienic open mated breeders 90+days old - $450 / pickup in nuc $600

F1 28 + days old  $50(1-5) / $47 (6-20) /$46 (21-36) / $45(36-50)  + $25 Express Post and pack

Full box (54 Queens) -$2250 inc GST and Post -   just $41.67 inc GST or $37.90 +gst

Guaranteed Live and good condition delivery Auspost Express and only high Quality irradiated Honey candy is used.  Automated Auspost tracking and emails any dramas text me.

We carry a wide variety of instrumentally inseminated stock from the best Hygienic queens derived from the hort innovation Arista bee research vsh importation. we pride ourselves on the diversity of instrumentally inseminated lines we carry, produce from and use as drone stock.  The key to truly great queens is diversity of great genetics with less susceptibility to pest and diseases..  Our yards are all worked with just a veil, we pride ourselves on calm and vastly superior honey gathering abilities.  any undesirable genetics are culled quickly to avoid contamination of the superior breeding stock we carry.

Our queens are raised only by grafting,  we have done extensive testing and have consistent emergence weights of above 200mg.

We only sell 28+day Queens - this is scientifically proven to increase acceptance rates and lower supercedure rates - study available on the training page www.rockhamptonbees.com.au/training/ - . Try some for yourself witness the difference.and the increase production of a productive F1 queens that is less likely to supercede. 

Experience the superior quality that we have to offer using vastly superior techniques, methods, procedures that we use.

2 things you pay for with queen bees - the genetics are number one and the age of queen/catch cycle timing!!

Absolutely the best quality queens at the best price we can without compromising the quality.

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With Express Australia post times from our location we pack our bees with the utmost care in genuine jzbz cages  for quick secure reliable transport. 

We post anywhere in NSW, QLD without issues or delay just follow our instructions and details when ordering.  we have a forward calendar excluding short weeks (if they arent 5 day working weeks we dont send) for ordering to be sent on dates. txt 0419663297 or rockhamptonbees@hotmail.com for information and availability

This sort of quality isn't expensive it's priceless