![]() ![]() It is already a fully operational beehive, only smaller. She has produced the brood that is in the NUC. She is already a functioning part of the hive. Our NUCs are less likely to supersede their queen.We guarantee that your NUC will arrive alive. NUCs are not as delicate as packages and do not require the careful handling associated with package bees.Recent increases in package bee prices and postal rates have made NUC prices very close to the price of package bees.The population of the package dies off without the advantage of having a stockpile of young bees hatching off and replenishing the population. NUCs build up more rapidly than packages and do not suffer the sudden drop in population (dwindling) associated with the aging process in packages.And offers a faster growth curve than 5 framers after installation resulting in more honey production and stronger pollination hives!! New for 2019 is the 6 ftame nuc which offers the potential for splitting under certain conditions. We also provide our customers with the same VSH/OHIO QUEEN BREEDER stock that we use to produce over 50,000 queens for honey production and pollination each year.įor 2019 we expect to over 10,000 for sale nucs available making us one of the largest for sale nuc providers in the nation. ![]() ![]() We use a feeding system similar to what we use on our full sized hive, so each nuc receives the same amount of feed. We produce our nucs in wooden boxes with a full sized hive entrance so we maximize bee population without danger of overheating. Our goal from the beginning was to produce a high quality product. Creating nucs is a natural extension of of raising bees for honey production or pollination. The growing demand for package bees was evidenced by delivery times which stretched into mid and late June in many areas. Having experience in buying and installing large numbers of package bees, we knew about the limitations of package bees and were aware critical timing events associated with shaking packages and baby nuc set up for bred queen production. In 2000 EHC through it’s sister company Merrimack Valley Apiaries Inc began to produce and sell large quantities of nucs for sale to sideline and hobby beekeepers in the northeast. ![]()
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