Bee Nucs Minnesota 2026

Please Note: 2026 Bee Nucs go on sale 12/26/2025. 

Varroa Sensitive Hygiene ( VSH)  Honey Bees for Sale pickup in Watertown Minnesota. 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 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 mites ending their reproductive cycle 

All of our nucs are started with queen cells and will have been laying 4-5 weeks by the time they are available for pickup.

You provide the hive bodies, stand, covers and the skill.

We do not ship bees, because these are not package bees, nucs are pickup only at our farm. 

Why buy a package of bees and hope the queen eventually lays, when you can buy a nuc that has a laying queen and capped brood? None of these bees will have gone to almonds. 

The cost of each nuc is $200 in Minnesota. 

The tentative date for pickup at our farm in Delano MN is June 10th. As we get into early May, we will confirm by email the exact dates and times for pickup 

Please note most days the bees are busy flying during the day so pickup is always 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 webstore@amesfarm.com 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 10, 2026 by emailing us at webstore@amesfarm.com. After 03/10/2026  nuc deposits and purchases are not refundable as these are made to order.