Virgin Queen Bee - Hygienic & Mite-Resistant | Central Alabama

Premium Virgin Queen Bees - Treatment-Free & Mite-Resistant

Elevate your hive's performance with our exceptional virgin queen bees, selected for resilience and productivity in Central Alabama. Each queen is grafted from carefully selected, treatment-free, mite-resistant stock to give your colony the strongest foundation for success.

✨ Why Choose Our Virgin Queens?

• Treatment-Free Genetics: Naturally resistant to common hive stressors without chemical interventions
• Mite-Resistant Stock: Bred for superior hygienic behavior and varroa resistance
• Gentle Temperament: Selected for calm, manageable colonies that are a pleasure to work with

🐝 What You'll Experience

Whether you're replacing an aging queen, starting a new hive, or expanding your apiary, these queens deliver the genetics and performance serious beekeepers demand.

📦 Shipping & Availability

Fast, reliable shipping ensures your queen arrives healthy and ready to work.

The timing of when queens are available for purchase, including ship dates or pickup dates, are tentative and heavily weather dependent. We will make every attempt to meet expected dates but offer no guarantees. We will give as much notice as possible on expected delivery or pickup dates.

We do not pre-sale queens. If queens are available for purchase, we have them on hand and ready to ship within the week. The first virgin queens are usually available around Early April and will be shipped in JZBZ queen cages. We do not ship queens to Alaska or Hawaii.

Queens are shipped without the purchase of any added insurance and are shipped under the sole responsibility of the purchaser. Replacement is at the discretion of Chilton Bee Company.

Open and inspect queens upon delivery. Contact us immediately concerning any issues. Queens must be placed into a hive as soon as possible. Please call us if you have any questions about introducing a queen into a hive

Queens are also available for pickup. Choose pickup during the checkout process and you will be contacted to arrange a pickup date and time.

Perfect for: Commercial beekeepers, hobbyists, queen replacement, new hive starts, and apiary expansion

To introduce a virgin: Using eggs and young larvae in a split can reduce queen acceptance. It is better to use capped brood. Install the queen cage between brood frames but leave the cap over the candy plug. Come back after 5 days and remove any queen cells created by the bees and then replace the queen cage with the cap removed. Do not open the hive for at least 2 weeks. This could cause the bees to kill the queen. After 2 weeks you should see eggs and larvae. If not, close up the hive and check again a week later. If you still don't see any sign of a laying queen, re-combine split into another hive.