The how and why my nucs are special

My spring nucs are assembled for sale starting with a 2025 grafted and mated queen from my overwintered breeder stock. Please remember that the mother of this nuc queen has already demonstrated and proven to have effective desirable VSH genetics. At this point in her young life the new queen is extremely vigorous. She is an egg laying machine.

She is placed in a Jester nuc box (a temporary corrugated plastic bee box which is capable of holding 5 frames). Those five frames consist of three frames of brood, one frame of resources (food), and an additional frame of drawn frame of brood or resources. The nuc is also filled with worker bees.

Although I believe my nucs are generous in comparison to others, most nucs are packaged in a similar way. What is truly special about my nucs is because my Northern IL climate acclimated VSH queens are special. I cannot emphasize this enough. The queens are the difference! And there is a difference!