Everyone has no doubt heard of the disaster that took place this season when bees ended up in Atlanta and were cooked to death by the heat in Georgia. 

Our Crew travels with the bees we move and we make sure that our bees only leave us with the next stop Alaska.  Never have we shipped bees that are double hopped to Alaska.  That is we never ship them to persons that know little about bees and the possiblity of making a fatel mistake in trying to route them on to Alaska.  That would be irresponsible on our part.

Staying with the bees and coming up against possible situations that could harm the bees we are able to correct dangerous conditions because we make the decision as to how the bees should proceed no third party is involved.

The bees that died should never have ended up where they were out of the control of trained bee keepers

We have a few packs of bees brought in late for those who may still need bees.  Also Nukes are Available

Page Updated 28 April.  New addition

Questions Call Jim at 907-317-2367 or Jack at 907-365-9199

Bees are delivered to all areas 

The one 4 pound package price is:

 245.00 

Nukes will bee available at 290.00 with return of the boxes.  

Additional cost for SE Alaska +$20.00.

See post to the right.

All 2022 classes are over

 We deliver Bees to the

        locations below                 Anchorage            Kodiak

Fairbanks

Juneau 

                       Ketchikan and            other areas in SE              Alaska, SW Alaska                    etc.

We will have bees again this year.  We do have an early buy program to help keep prices down.  The 4lb packages we will have discounts in Jsanuary, February and later in March.  Buy early and get the greatest discount We will have the same types as last year, new world Carniolan, Italian and Old World Carniolan.  Plus a limited supply of Buckfast Queen bees..  Additional queens are available. (only 2 queen hives should need this)(not recommended for beeginners)

 Beneath all that snow spring is getting ready and so am I. If you want bees for polination, honey production or just because you want a bee hive Now is the time to purchase the bees. Don't wait till the last minute and find out we are sold out for the year. REMEMBER! Your order is not booked until payment is received! Pay early and save big. We will be making an effort to find more bees later in the season if we have more order

What we are about

We distribute 3 and 4 lb packages of bees. 4 lb packages work out best for our Alaska customers, 3 lb packages are acceptable in the NW United States. 

Our listed prices are delivered prices dropped off in Anchorage, Fairbanks, Palmer, Wasilla, Juneau and Ketchikan.  Other Alaska locations are possible but call us and we will figure out the additional shipping costs. 

Bee Keeping Classes for 2022 

We will again have classes for the beeginning bee keepers.

The nest  class in Anchorage will be on the 26th of February. 

The location will be 1526 Karluck street near 15th and Karluk Street.  Yes that little white house.

 Call Jack for a location.  Bring a lunch or snack to see you through it means you can snack and still ask questions during a break. 

We will talk about getting to know the bees.  How to set up the equipment, install the bees, and how to get the honey from them.  Also what to do after the summer season, what to do in the winter.     It will start at 10:00am to 4:00pm come early if you have not yet registered.

   Which Bees to use???

Bees are Italian, New World Carniolan, and Old World Carniolan are the main bees.  Also Buckfast, Russian, Caucasian, Cordovan.

In the US most large breeders carry Italian (Yellow) and Carniolan Honey Bees (Black). I carry Koehnen and Sons Bees they do have a web page you can visit.  Click on Queens to read about the Queens.

The Italian Bees I carry are Italian and Cordovan cross. 

New world Carniolan bees result when the Italian (Yellow and Black) and Carniolan bees (Black) are raised in the same yard.  When breeding takes place the drones that mate with any queen are at random.  The young that result from the mating can be black or yellow as the queen will mate with many drones.  So the New World Carniolan is more of a cross-breed. These work well in the areas of Anchorage to Fairbanks.  Most of the Italians sold do well in the warmer areas such as Fairbanks.  

The Old Wold Carniolan bee is rasied in a different yard with only the Carniolan drones.  Cross-breeding with other types of bees is less likley.

The Old World Carniolan bees are more agressive in all ways. They will work harder in the cold and wet and they will come at you quicker when you go into the hive. In the Fairbanks hot dry weather they may be more likley to swarm.  They are prefered in The cooler SE area of Alaska such as Juneau and in the Anchorage area.  Any area that has colder summers

The Italian bees are used in the warmer dryer areas such as Fairbanks Alaska.  

 What we do?? 

 We distribute "Package bees" to Alaska from the Almond Orchards in California. 

Our crews travel to California and process the bees , trasport the bees to air freight carriers and on to Alaska.  

We care for the bees and have learned to bee prepared to over come all obstacles that may present themselves in the process.

We strive to maintain a safe trip so the bees are healthy and arrive in Alaska in the best condition possible. They are then able to produce young (brood) and build up to capture you a good crop of Honey 

We use Alaskans to distribute the bees, to get the packages to you.  We distribute to all areas of the state with bees traveling from Homer to Fairbanks. That includes droping at Soldotna, Wasilla, Palmer, and we can meet Seward people on the way to Soldotna.  

We also ship bees to Juneau and Ketchikan and can include trips to Skagway, Haines, Craig. etc.  Bees  that continue beyond Juneau or Ketchikan will need to be carried by a local carrier which we can suggest or you can specify.  

The bees are available early to mid April.  We will post delivery dates later or notify you which dates you have.  Generaly early orders are shipped on the 1st shipments. Some prefer later dates because they are not going to be in town please let us know.  

Delays in the arrival of the bees in April can be expected about once every 6 to 8 years because the queens are not mated yet.  If the weather is not good and it is raining the Queens will not fly for mating.  The Queens must fly from the hive and be mated in mid air so if it is raining they will not fly.  This can delay the delivery of the bees.  We want to have well mated Queens so a delay is nessessary. After she is mated the Queen is tested for fertility before she is placed in your package.  Most years there is no problem and no delay.  

We offer discount prices early on because we do not need extra help to process your order.  Later when we become busier we need more help and so the discounts are reduced to help cover the cost.  By March we are preparing to transport the bees and again more help is needed so we must reduce the discounts to our base price to process the later orders.  We may also be able to find some later bees that we will be able to bring in.  These will certainly cost more as they are last minute deliveries from bee suppliers and we will be paying more for these bees from the source. 

Help Keep Prices Low By Ordering Early. 

                                    Call Us Today! 

907-365-9199 or

907-317-2367  

4 LB. Bee Packages

     Fairbanks pickup is finished

  l

Anchorage pickup

is fininished

Eagle River pickup is in Anchorage

Valley pickup  Wasilla is finished

Kodiak all delivered

SE all delivered

(SE alaska will be an additional cost depending on the number of packages to be shipped the freighter has a minimum) Juneau is $20.00 more than the published price and Ketchikan including bees to locations out of Ketchikan such as Craig is $20.00 more than the published price. Areas beyond Ketchikan will have additional cost from Ketchikan to your location the same is true beyond Juneau. (such as delivery to Gustavus, Craig, Haines, Skagway, Etc.)

  Some area may be better served with Nuks and we will have those too. 

 to Kodiak +$20 als

  3 LB. Bee Packages

Not available in Alaska  Only in the Northwest

Beginning beekeeping The Next class is February 2023 Anchorage. From 10:00am to 4:00 or later depending on Questions. location will depend on class size.  Give Jack a call if you have questions 907-365-9199.

Location will be 1526 Karluk St.

In a little white house.

Get to know the bees

How to set up the equipment, install the bees, how to care for the bees and how to get the honey from them

What to do after the season into the winter

WE also have all the equipment you need at our shop in Anchorage at competitive prices 

All bees are shipped by Air Freight but to position our Trucks and crew we move through Provence and State  Boarders 

 Traveling to the boarders of Yukon, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, California and Back and forth are unresticted to COMERCIAL travel.  We have been making these trips for many years and are documented in data bases at the various crossings.  Being that the travel is COMMERCIAL and connected with AGRICULTURE there should not be any problems.  All border crossings at international locations and the State of California are checked regularly by our crew that make those boarder crossings.