Order NUC

A NUC is a small starter hive of bees on five frames. This is not a whole 8 or 10 frame hive. Each NUC has a Queen and most of the bees are her offspring.

Please make sure you have completely read the requirements and understand the costs for ordering your 5 frame NUC before placing your order.

2012 NUCs are only $115 each.
NOTE: Payment in full will be required within 7 days of the order being placed.
Our bees are Italian mutts. There are many different bees in GA and they have cross-bred. There are No pure Italian bees any more.
Each NUC comes with 5 frames.
The frames size for the NUC are standard hive body 9 ¹/₈ inches high.
Please: do not return spare frames in the NUC box. Thank you but we don't need them.
All orders are first come first serve! We appologize, but we sell out every year.
Please: realize that if you order NUCs You are responsible for picking up the Bees and returning the equipment. If you order NUCs for friends and something happens You will be obligated to pay for the NUCs or the cancellation fee within the allotted 7 day period. (We live in North Henry County, GA.) If we continue to have problems with this, we will unfortunately not be able to sell NUCs to more than one person at a time. Thank you all so much for your support and understanding!
You are required to return the NUC box and equipment within 7 days of pickup.
Please scroll down to read the NUC installation instructions.

2012 NUC Orders

The cancelation fee for any NUC after Feb 1st, 2012 is $50 per NUC.
Each marked Queen is $2.00. Please Note: Marking is not permanent as the Bees groom each other they will eventually remove the marking.
There is a $15.00 charge for each cardboard box requested ($10 for the cardboard box and $5 for installation). The cardboard boxes are provided for you so you don't have to return the wooden NUC boxes. Please keep them safe and next year you can bring them back for your new NUC purchase!
There is a $45.00 charge if you wish to purchase the NUC box ($31 for the box, $10 for the front door, $4 for the 24" bungee cord).
Please Note: If you choose not to buy your NUC box up front there will be a $50 charge if the equipment is not returned after 7 days!
Would you like your NUC installed in your equipment or a cardboard box? There is a $5 charge for each NUC installation requested, and your equipment must arrive before 12:00pm (Noon) on the day of pick-up. For your convenience and ours, you may drop your equipment off a few days in advance.
Complete hives may be purchased for $300. This includes the NUC, a standard ten frame hive body (five frames from the NUC, and 5 frames in the hive body), bottom screen board, inner cover and telescope cover. Ready to take your bees straight to your home!
NUCs are ready to be moved/picked-up at dark. Depending upon the season the time can vary from 7 to 8:30pm.

SOLD OUT for 2012

We are sorry but we are all sold out of NUCs this year. Please check back with us as we will try to have next years schedule ready soon!

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NUC Installation Instructions Please Read!

When you arrive home, place the NUC on top of the bottom screen board of your hive.
Remove the front screen door with bungee cord - let the front door drop to the ground.
Make sure that the front screen door is off otherwise the bees will Die!
Next day if it is at least 65 degrees (or if it is raining wait until the weather is better)
- Put three (new) frames in your new hive body that you are going to install your NUC frames into.
- Lightly smoke the NUC.
- Remove one of the outside frames first Very Gently (it should have less bees on it). This will give room to slide frames over and not roll bees when removing them from the NUC.
- Install your NUC frames into the new hive in the same order you removed them from the NUC.
- Make sure you have a queen before you remove any queen cells while you are installing your bees. If you are sure you do, find any queen cells and make sure you remove them.
- Then put your last two frames (new) in and your hive is complete! You will have a total of ten frames in your new hive.
If you find some bees lingering in the NUC box, this is normal. Move the NUC box a few feet away from your new hive and leave your lid off, the bees will find their way to their new home!
Start feeding sugar water now!!
- 2.5 quarts of hot water mixed with 5 lbs. of sugar makes 1 gallon; let it cool; then give to bees.
- Feed until all frames are drawn out.
No frame exchange please.
If you didn't purchase your NUC box & equipment up front, Please return our NUC box & equipment at any time within 7 days. Make sure your name is still taped on the top of your NUC box. Leave the NUC box & equipment next to Buster's garage (where you picked up your NUCs). This way we can keep a count on our equipment. We need this equipment to install another NUC for another beekeeper. Thank you!
If our NUC box & equipment is not returned within 7 days you will be charged as follows.
- NUC box- $35.00
- Front screen door- $10.00
- 24" bungee cord-$5.00
- Or a total of $50.00 for all of the equipment per NUC.
Congratulations!! You have one hive of bees!!

If you have any questions, please click here to contact us. We will get back to you ASAP!

Watch our installation instruction video! (Turn your volume up.)