2025 local queens - DISEASE-RESISTANT AND A JOY TO WORK WITH
Restoration Honey Bee Company produces queens that are bred to thrive in our unique Ontario environment. Productive colonies require strong, healthy queens. Our breeding program focuses on traits that help to safeguard colonies against disease and our harsh winters.
We are enrolled in the Ontario Resistant Honey Bee Selection (ORHBS) program, meaning our breeder queens are carefully selected for hygienic behaviour and low-varroa growth, utilizing evidenced-based testing methods, carried our by a third-party source, the Tech-Transfer Program of the Ontario Beekeeping Association (https://www.ontariobee.com/ORHBS).
We also take great care in selecting hives (drone mothers) with desirable traits to surround and saturate our mating yard. In addition to hygienic behaviour and low-varroa growth, our breeding program selects for winter hardiness, quick-spring build-up, honey production, calmness (“comb stability”), and gentle temperament. Each year, we infuse our breeding program with proven Ontario stock from some of the other excellent breeders in the ORHBS program.
We have implemented instrumental insemination in our program to ensure the greatest degree precision in stock selection, for the continued sustainability of honey bee colonies in Ontario and beyond.
Our mated queens are locally produced and will be available weekly starting mid-June. They will be marked for easy identification, and will come in a queen cage with attending bees.
QUEENS
Quantity and Price
1–9: $50.00
10-50: $45.00
51+: $42
QUEEN CELLS
Quantity and Price
Minimum of 5 queen cells per order
5-19: $20
20-100: $15
Both mated queens and queen cells are available for pick-up in Eganville, ON.
Email us at info@honeybeecompany.ca for availability.
2025 NucLeus COLONY Purchases
Our 4-frame nucs are made to the specifications of the Ontario Bee Breeders’ Association standards. Restoration Honey Bee Company is enrolled in the Ontario Resistant Honey Bee Selection (ORHBS) program, meaning our breeder queens are carefully selected for hygienic behaviour and disease-resistance. We also select for winter hardiness, calmness (“comb stability”), and gentle temperament. Our bees will be provincially inspected to ensure that they are disease-free.
Our 4 frame nucs include the following:
4 deep (standard size) frames
2 frames of brood
1 frame of food (honey and pollen)
1 frame of drawn out foundation for the bees to expand into
Adhering adult bees on all frames to tend to the hive
A marked queen
1 nuc box for transport
Nucs are available late-May to late-June. The exact date and pick-up location will be determined closer to spring, but will be in the close proximity to Eganville, ON.
$260 per nuc
50% deposit required on all orders, by cash, website order or Interac eTransfer (preferred)
If paying by Interac eTransfer or cash, please proceed to add to cart and fill out the registration information (amount will be reduced to $0), and we will contact you via your preferred communication method. Interac eTransfers can be sent to info[at]honeybeecompany[dot]ca
