Russian Honey Bees were brought to the U.S. during the mid 1990's by the Honey Bee Breeding, Genetics, and Physiology Research is located in Baton Rouge, LA . They were selected and bred because of their resistance to Varroa mites. In 2008 the Russian bee was released to the U.S. Bee Industry and the Russian Honeybee Breeders Association (RHBA) was formed. Steven was one of the original members and Coy Bee Company is proud to be one of the Association's Certified members.
Certified members consistently evaluate untreated hives and produce pure Russian queens that are good honey producers, are not aggressive, and maintain their resistance to Varroa mites. There are many people selling "Russian bees" but the only way to get the Pure Russian bee is to buy from a Certified member of the RHBA.
We only breed from untreated hives and flood the mating yards with drones from pure Russian hives. This ensures that we are providing our customers with purest Russian queens possible.
Unlike most queen breeders, we catch queens on a 21 day cycle. This allows us to evaluate the brood pattern and cull the queens that don't have good brood patterns. Our queens are typically laying like gangbusters when we cage them and we ship them within a day or two; but, it sometimes takes a few days to start laying once they have been released into the new colony. If they are not laying 7-10 days after release, give us a call.
Call 601-716-3080
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Monday – Thursday 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM Central Time.
A 10% non-refundable deposit is required to secure your order and the balance is due in full two weeks prior to ship date. We accept checks or credit/debit cards.
Every year has it challenges and we do our best to provide you with the best Russian queens we can produce. The brood pattern of every queen is evaluated to ensure you are receiving the best we can produce. If she is not laying consistently or producing healthy looking brood, we don't ship her.
Queen with attendants in 3-hole cage.
Marking $4.00/queen
Clipping $4.00/ queen
Queens in California mini cages shipped in a battery box. All attendants are loose inside the box.
Marking $4.00/ queen
Clipping $4.00/queen
Queens in California mini cages shipped in a battery box. All attendants are loose inside the box.
Marking $4.00/queen
Clipping $4.00/queen
We love our customers !
We are a small, family operated Queen and Nuc operation. We try to expand our production capacity each year but we still cannot fill all the orders we receive, especially orders for the month of April.
We believe in customer loyalty, both to and from our customers. If you purchased queens or nucs from us in the previous two years we give you a chance at ordering before new customers. We send out an email alerting you as to when we start taking orders. This customer loyalty ordering lasts for two weeks, after that we take orders from new customers. Its our way to thank you for supporting our business.
For new customers, I'm sorry to say that we typically fill all of April's queen orders in the first few days. I assure you, many previous customers have to wait until after April to receive their queens.
Once you order from us you are then on the list for next years customer loyalty order email.
Nuc production is also limited because we are a relatively small bee business. The demand for Russian nucs is huge ! We can only make a certain number of nucs each year. Once we reach that number, that's all we have. We have loyal customers who purchase nucs for resale in their area. We do hold back 100 nucs for local pickup.
We wish we could do more but we do as much as we can.
For 2024 we will ONLY ship queens on Tuesday or Wednesday
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Target dates to begin queen shipments are April 2nd and 3rd, 2024. We will be shipping on Tuesdays and Wednesdays only. We had several problems with the USPS last year so ALL queens will be shipped via UPS this year.
We only offer UPS Next Day Air (costs have increased again for 2024 and varies with location). We do not upcharge for shipping and do not offer any guarantee on delivery times. UPS, including their Next Day Air service does NOT guarantee delivery time nor do they provide insurance for live bees. You MUST examine the queens immediately for any queens received in poor condition or dead. Should either of these conditions occur, immediately call our office within 24 hours. We will try to ascertain the problem and resolve the issue as quickly as possible. Should we need to send a replacement queen(s), you will be responsible for the shipping cost on those replacement queens, which must be paid prior to shipment.
We do our best to take care of your queens until we drop them off with UPS. We have had few issues but there is always the chance that someone will "drop the ball" when getting your precious queens from us to you. Contact your local Customer Care Center and make sure they understand that they need to call you when your queens arrive.
They do not need to on the front porch or spend all day in the hot truck. This can potentially be damaging to your queens and reduce their lifespan weeks or months later.
If you are not happy with your queens call us immediately, we can't replace queens that you have had for more than two weeks.
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