Unlock Your Backyard Beekeeping Potential with Honey Bees Nucleus Colonies & Custom Beehives – Delivered Directly to Melbourne.
New Bee Packages include bees, frames & organic beeswax foundation. Plus, expert swarm removal and rescue so you may confidently begin your beekeeping in Melbourne!
A single box comes with bees, wooden frames and organic beeswax foundation. Begin your backyard beekeeping journey today by selecting Italian or Carniolan queen bee for your new starter honey bee nucleus colonies.
Start beekeeping with a healthy nucleus bee colony today!
We deliver bee packages or nucleus colonies in Melbourne or Victoria’s countryside.
We have bees and hives for sale. The bee colonies are ready for pick-up or delivery to your backyard in Melbourne or the country of Victoria
Now is the time to turn your backyard into a buzzing haven of biodiversity. Let the hum of bees be the soundtrack to your newfound passion for Backyard Beekeeping.
Firstly, once you get a bee package that is essentially a young nucleus colony you can start with beekeeping and honey production.
Next, you may also join an apiarist club and share your experiences. You decide on the type of the honey bee by selecting the type of the queen bee.
In Melbourne the most popular are Italian but I also provide Carniolan queen bee variety.
How to Order a Nucleus Bee Package with Queen Bee
We have bees and queen bees in single-nucleus bee packages for sale.
All young queen bees are mated each season, and we can provide healthy bee colonies all year round. The best time to start is when you are ready, but starting with a young nucleus colony is easy and I will help you with your beekeeping journey!
The queen bees for sale are already merged with other bees in a single nucleus colony, and there are no undesired surprises when you get bees and queen bees separately from apiarists near you who sell bee packages that you have to merge.
Choose from the two types of honey bees in a beehive, Carniolan or Italian.
Ever thought about making your honey? Have you researched an apiarist near me term?
Before delivery, with each bee package, we make sure a queen bee lays eggs and capped brood is present, and there is nothing for you to do for some time.
No stress, no worries to start with your beekeeping!
You have ample time to prepare yourself and learn before you take the next move.
Our healthy buzzing families or nucleus beehives are ideal for a novice beekeeper.
Start today with beekeeping in Melbourne or countryside Victoria.
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1. Queen bee: Italian (Apis mellifera ligustica) or Carniolan (Apis mellifera carnica).
2. Pest Control Strategy – Defend effectively against a small hive beetle. There is a way to protect your hive with a container filled with oil. It is that simple. This container is included in the beehive package.
3. In a standard wooden box, you will get all 8 Frames with wax foundation. Four to five frames are with developed come, brood and honey.
4. Bees: Depending on the time of the season, your bee package has bees at different stages of their life. A young queen bee, scouts, foragers, workers (female) and drones (male) bees.
Bio-security for Honeybees
The course supports the Australian Honey Bee Industry Bio-security Code of Practice and is one way to meet the training requirements of the Code. Interested?
Learn more about Six Easy Ways to Protect Honey Bees with Biosecurity.
Essential Beekeeping Hands-on Introduction Course
Consider upgrading to a brief yet essential beekeeping course when we deliver the your nucleus colony. No need for extensive reading or spending hours studying all the intricacies! This interactive course is conveniently recorded on the spot during the bee package delivery.
Covering a range of topics, you’ll learn how to properly care for your bee colony, including essential techniques for winter feeding and colony management. When it comes to keeping your honey bees fed during the colder months, white cane sugar is widely regarded as the safest and most dependable nectar substitute.
I will help you to get essential skills in beekeeping routine and give insight into how to feed bees in winter, bio-security, managing the bee colony, and health and welfare of bees. Further, for this approximately one-hour course, I will be providing essential tips for new apiarists on how to avoid making beekeeping beginner’s mistakes. You do not need to complete a separate beekeeping course and spend hours in front of your computer. But you can always expand your knowledge as an apiarist by learning more about honey bees and related topics by visiting many free resources such as agriculture.vic.gov.au.
You will also get an essential pdf file which shall support you well and help you when you are in doubt. This essential PDF file will allow you to start with natural beekeeping in your backyard in your local suburb or countryside of Victoria.
What is involved with honey bee swarm removal?
- Labour, equipment and travel costs to safely relocate the bees
- Safe Relocation
- Buying a new home for the bees including a Beehive and Frames
- A feeling that you have done a good deed
Learn more about Swarm Removal and Bees Rescue
The Nucleus beehive colony is ideal for an inexperienced beekeeper.
A bee colony comes in wooden eight-frame beehive boxes. Transfer delivery and transfer of included.
Get your young & mated queen bee, brood and bees
Have you thought about backyard beekeeping in your backyard with a Langstroth box?
What is a beehive? A beehive is made of beeswax! Bees make combs with wax from eight wax-producing glands on their abdomen.
What are Nucleus Colonies in Eight Frames Deep Hives
Firstly, you have at least two options for the beehive boxes. We only sell the Langstroth hive box. The other beehive box is known as the flow beehive box. The latter is more advanced and patented and gained a lot of popularity. For those more advanced boxes search in Google for terms like ‘flow hives for sale’.
A Langstroth-type beehive box is a well-known standardised housing used to keep honey bees. Next, when we deliver your bee package, the beehive comes in this type of box, a brood box. We also transfer the young honey bee colony into specially designed beehive boxes. These boxes are well known as “flow hives”, and we transfer the bee colony into these boxes if desired. Image bellow.
Melbourne Beehives delivers healthy young beehives. The bees and a queen bee are merged as one colony. So, this is an ideal setup because the queen bees are with other bees in well-established nucleus colonies. Further, young nucleus colonies at this stage have the best chance to become strong, healthy and ready to start a new life and production of honey with a new owner. And, that could be any apiarist including you.
All boxes are new or near new, with a non-ventilated bottom board.
The plastic Gate/door is adjustable, controlling the hive’s opening, protecting the entrance, and controlling airflow and temperature. So, your bee package will have all the beehive components so you can start the beekeeping in your backyard like a pro.
Redpath’s Beekeeping Supplies
Do you wish to purchase wax, honey or other beekeeping supplies? I would recommend you visit the following website and order online.
To visit the online store, click on the link below.
Call 0430370440 & Get Ready to Buzz with Joy!
Bee Packages, Bee Hives and Nucleus Colony in a Flow Hive?
Are you excited to introduce a bee colony to your backyard?
If yes is your answer, then your decision to start with beekeeping is simply fantastic, and you have made a great choice. Congratulations on your smart choice but it is much more than that and you will see why soon! It is also not only about making your honey either.
Do you have a brand new flow hive but you do not have the bees?
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That is not a problem since we understand that starting with beekeeping is not always a straightforward process and we can help you with that as you grow your skills and knowledge.
Which European honey bee varieties do you prefer, Carniolan and Italian? No worries, most of the season I can offer both varieties.
Have you Seen a Honey Flow Hive?
This is a great alternative to standardised Langstroth or Warre Hive boxes. Most importantly it is easy to harvest honey. You only need an empty jar and a bit of patience.
With the help of AI, the image showcases a majestic Apis mellifera lugustica queen bee, the undisputed ruler of her colony. She is the largest bee in the frame, with her long, slender body adorned with vibrant stripes and iridescent wings that shimmer in the sunlight.
Discover the ease of the Self-Flowing Honey Beehive. Extracting honey is a breeze with this user-friendly device. When the honey-filled frame is ready, just use the key. It smoothly channels the honey from the frame into your jar or container.
Plus, here’s the highlight: no need to engage with the bees during extraction. Thanks to this innovative design, beekeepers enjoy a stress-free and seamless process. Efficiency and bee-friendliness are at the core of this extraction method.
Our bees are all-in-one Packages. Are you Confused?
All packaged bee colonies have a mated queen bee, brood, bees and honey in eight frames deep boxes.
The bee-wax foundation is on each frame. The beeswax foundation stimulates young colony development. A beeswax foundation also promotes a faster buildup of brood and food stores! In other words, it simply helps and that is what we deliver!
Honey bees, nucleus colonies & local & backyard beekeeping
I started with beekeeping eight years ago. Today I feel I have done something outstanding. The investment that you need to start with beekeeping pays back quickly.
There are many benefits of having honey bees. I also have a honey bee colony in my backyard. As a local backyard beekeeper, I no longer buy honey from the supermarket. Plus, it is pure honey, fresh and organic from my apiary. So there are no additives in the honey, it is not processed, and it is without any chemical modifications.
In case you haven’t decided yet to become a beekeeper, I would like to ask you to consider it again.
As a backyard beehive owner, I am very happy that I am more involved with the outdoors and gardening than ever before.
Beekeeping is easy, and anyone can do it. It would be best to have a bee package and a backyard to start with local beekeeping. Each year you will be harvesting your authentic and unique raw honey from your backyard or a farm and much more.
Are you new to backyard beekeeping?
When I deliver your package I will then, transfer the bees into your brand-new flow hive. I will move your bee colony package from the Langstroth hive to your new flow hive!
Not only that, I will show you how to handle honey bees and start with beekeeping. And you can start backyard beekeeping without any prior experience.
I also offer an Introductory Session (video recording session) into beekeeping.
While we record the video session, at the same time I transfer your bee colony into your new Flow Hive.
Following the guide and advice recorded in the video is the easiest way to learn visually essential skills. So you can become a hobby beekeeper in a flash. With a few tricks that you learn you stay confident and focused. But also you learn beekeeping and at your own pace.
You will love your results!
Biosecurity Code for beekeepers
If you are serious about bees and beekeeping, it would be beneficial to further familiarise yourself with, The Australian Honey Bee Industry Practice.
Download the Australian Honey Bee Industry Bio-security Code of Practice.
Expertly Prepared Bee Packages for Melbourne Backyard Beekeepers?
We recognise that every garden or backyard plays a unique role on a holistic level. Its potential extends far beyond mere lawn-mowing and garden aesthetics.
I recently discovered the profound value of dedicating some time to my backyard. From this experience, I firmly conclude that beekeeping can be beneficial to almost anyone involved.
After an entire week filled with daily activities and a heavy workload, there’s a need to switch off at the week’s end. And where better to unwind and relax than in your backyard? It doesn’t have to be far away from your home.
Considering the importance of health and life balance, is this a priority for you? It certainly is for me. How about you?
The apparent benefits of becoming a local beekeeper go beyond the surface, potentially improving your health. Engaging in beekeeping allows you to build up a natural resistance to viruses. Simultaneously, you’ll enhance your overall well-being and get involved in fulfilling outdoor activities.