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Exiting news – We are Building a dedicated Queen rearing shed

Exiting news – We are Building a dedicated  Queen rearing shed

We have been very busy during the start of this year working on a very special project. With demand for UK bred queens still increasing, we made the decision last year to build a new building to help us produce

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We are now offering Beekeeping Courses

Bee hive with smoker

We are pleased to say that over Autumn and winter we will be running  beekeeping theory courses. It has been a long time in the making. Having found a suitable venue, Quince Honey Farm in North Devon, it is now

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The Year so far

2020 II Buckfast Queen

This year has certainly been an odd one so far. With the weather and COVID19, it has been hard to plan ahead. With things beginning to calm down, we will hopefully have an uneventful rest of the year.  It has

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We’ve Been Queen Grafting

We’ve Been Queen Grafting

We rear our queens for instrumental insemination here in the UK at our farm in North Devon. We’ve been really busy grafting more queens for II. These queens are ideal for use as breeders for stock improvement and raising your

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Preparing for spring beekeeping

Frames and hive parts

Although spring and the start of the beekeeping season seems a long way off, it will soon be upon us. Whilst the weather is cold and there is little beekeeping to do, its a great idea to sort out all

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We’ve been preparing our honey bee nucs for winter

Inspecting honey bee nucleus frames

We’ve been checking our honey bee nucs to ensure they have plenty of stores for winter. This is an important time of the year to be keeping an eye on your honey bee colonys as they can easily starve during

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The Summer is over

The Summer is over

The summer is coming to an end and autumn is on its way, its been a very busy year and we have had a successful season raising queens and taken a good honey harvest. Now is the time of year

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Bishops Bees Bee Farm – UK Queen Breeders

At Bishops Bees Bee Farm we rear queen honey bees for sale. We use proven rearing methods and instrumental insemination, to produce a large number of high quality queens. Furthermore, unlike natural mating, we are not heavily affected by weather

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Checking the II Queens after Insemination

Checking the II Queens after Insemination

Once our Queens have been Instrumentally Inseminated, we prove their laying and fertility using mating nucs. This allows us to assess the success of the queens before offering them for sale or selecting them to head colonies. Pre and post

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Queen Rearing at Bishop’s Bees

Queen Rearing frame

We’ve had a busy year so far with our Instrumental Insemination and experimenting with new methods to help increase success and queen care. By selecting good quality queens as drone mothers and queen mothers our inseminated queens should head productive

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