PACKAGES BEES 2025

Alaska Honey Bee Package Bees 2025

Early Bird Pricing $230.00 per 4lb Package Bee, Good until January 15 2025, Order today!! Pay after the New Year!

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I am approved to use “Alaska Grown” Logo for AHB Alaska Honey Bee queens in package bees, and single queens. This only applies to AHB queens, and Package bees with AHB queen accompanying.

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4 lb. Package bees & Queens for beekeeping in Alaska.

Please read all of this page so you do not have any surprises about policy.

Placing an order

For documentation please email your package bee order, also I use email to create a time line for orders to be fair to all.
Email orders to klm@gci.net

I need the following information to book an order;

1. Name
2. Area for pick up / General location
3. How many Package bees desired / also add extra queens if desired
4. Strains desired
5. Phone numbers
6. If you do not have email you can phone your order to me, but I really do prefer email orders. 907-242-0588
7. How you prefer to pay, keeping in mind the $8.00 per package charge for credit card payments.

2025 Pricing!

  • Early Bird Pricing $230.00 per 4lb Package Bee, Good until January 15 2025, order today!! Lock in your order with this price as your base price, and increase anytime during order season, and $230.00 each will still be your price for additional package bees. Pay after the New Year!   
  • 1- 4lb. package bee with one queen each Starting January 15 2025, price is $265.00 each
  • 2 up to 9 4lb. Package Bees Starting January 15 2025, price is $241.00
  • Starting February 15th 2025. price for 2 up to 9 package bees will go up 5% to $253.00 each.
  • Starting March 15th 2025. price for 2 up to 9 package bees will go up 5% to $265.00 each.
  • 10 to 49 – 4lb. package bees Starting January 15 2025, price is $236.00 each.
      • Over 50 – 4lb. package bees Starting January 15 2025, price is $230.00 each.
  • Extra queens $50.00, available at pick up, are not inside package bee. I no longer supply extra queens inside package bee.

Areas to be distributed and Tentative dates for Alaska beekeepers pick up locations.

  1. 1st Shipment; April 10/11 2025 Eagle River, Anchorage and the following morning the Fairbanks/Delta/Glennallen pick ups are April 11 2025.
  2. 2nd Shipment; April 17 2025 Anchorage, Kenai Peninsula, and Mat-Su Valley pick up.
  3. 3rd Shipment; April 24/25 2025 Mat-Su Valley, and Fairbanks only the following morning on April 25 2024.

Shipment Dates Subject to change dependent on weather, queen mating conditions in California, and transportation scheduling, any date is tentative. Email updates periodically.

Strains Available

I am approved to use “Alaska Grown” Logo for AHB Alaska Honey Bee queens in package bees, and single queens. This only applies to AHB queens, and Package bees with AHB queen accompanying..

1. – Alaska Honey Bee (AHB) Alaska_Grown_new_member Currently Available. Breeders are from a colonies that have been surviving winters in Alaska, untreated (ZERO anything). This years AHB Breeder Mothers are from my own yards here in Alaska. Breeder Daughters mated in California. Since mating is done in California with multiple drone’s, progeny will be hybrids. Russian Base line Genetics. Substitute queens incase of mating failures will be either IRS, or Carniolan.

2. – Improved Russian Stock (IRS). Breeders From the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State. Breeder Daughters mated in California. Since mating is done in California with multiple drone, progeny will be hybrids except for the drone progeny. Russian, Caucasian Base Genetics. Substitute queens incase of mating failures will be either AHB, or Carniolan. Olympic Wilderness Apiary – Wild Survivor Queens

3. – Caucasians (Not Available for 2025)  New source honey bees for Alaska from  Olympic Wilderness Apiary – Wild Survivor Queens. From Treatment Free Apiary. Breeder Daughters mated in California. The breeders are of Caucasian Base Genetic.

4. – New World Carniolan (NWC) First Cousin to the Russian, always a great choice for Alaska’s cooler conditions. They winter really good.

5. – Italian – I do not consider Italian honey bees to be suitable for Alaska conditions, Always good brooding, comb builders, and honey producers. Not known to winter well in northern locations. Must have a five package bee Minimum to order Italians.

Read more on strains, click hear.

I am the longest running supplier of Package bees in the state of Alaska, dating back to 1993, 30 years without a break. I may even be the largest supplier, I weigh around 200 lbs. Supplying bees longer than any other supplier in Alaska. I offer four-pound packages of honeybees, which I import from Central California.

This season I am providing 4 pound package bees.

I sell package bees of selected genetics, that are hybrid genetics, with queen Daughters that can, and will be any color hue. Do not buy bees from me if you are stuck on bees being one color. Real bees can be any color, only Man selects for color in an artificial way. Read more at bottom of page, and also about Queen replacement policy.

I prefer folks to place an order by email for documentation at klm@gci.net, unless you have no email service, you can call me to order.

Orders accepted up to, and at times beyond, delivery dates. Please feel free to place an order at any time. Dates for bees to arrive will be April in Spring.

It gets more difficult to make changes the closer arrival gets. If you are unable to pick up your bees at arrival, when you get a phone call, to pick them up, you would need to have someone arranged to pick them up for you ahead of time. This is where you call on a beekeeper friend to help out, just like in the old days. If you do not have a beekeeper friend you really must get out sometime, and meet some beekeepers. Please be sure to read further for information concerning your area. I may add an additional shipment number if order numbers mandate it.

Making Payment

Please prepay by mid March. Payment is not to be made with pick up cooperators, or at any pick up location. Please USPS mail me a check payment, or I can receive payment using credit card. Inform me when you email your order, and I will invoice you according to the type payment you prefer.

Credit Card payments will have a $8.00 service charge added to each package bee ordered.

when emailing order inform me what payment method you prefer, so I can invoice you with Squareup.com if you want.

Don’t forget I add $8.00 per package bee for credit charges.
When placing an order please inform me if you want to make payment using these two methods by credit card, so I can add the service charge to your total.

Please make payment when paying by check, or money order out to Keith Malone, or “Alaska Honey Bee”.

Package bee distribution dates are tentative.

Pay attention to shipment number, and dates designated to areas. Your confirmation email will show your shipment number. Such as shipment 1, 2, or 3. Save your emails so you may reference your shipment number, and not have to email me to retrieve this important pick up information.

Send Payment to;

Keith Malone
Alaska Honey Bee
P.O. Box 671092
Chugiak, AK 99567

Queen replacement policy.

I have a queen replacement policy that others do not offer. Here it is, I will replace dead, failing, and missing queens from the current package bees sold this current year before the third week in May, or up to three weeks after package bee pick up, free of charge. Why, when other suppliers only give you a week to get replacements. I want you to enjoy, and get a good return on your initial investment in your bees. I really do not care if you accidentally kill your queen, I will replace her for free within the conditions given above. Call me and I will priority mail you a queen usually the next day or the following day. You will receive her usually in three days from mailing if Sunday does not get in the path.
What I will not do is replace a queen that you do not like the color of, since all strains in nature comes in all the color hues of Honey Bees.
In nature queens come in a variable rainbow of colors in the black, brown, and yellow hues. In nature these colors in every strain express them selfs dependent on mostly geographical reasons, Like lowland verses highlands, and latitudinal lines North verses south. In nature the bees sort this out with their mating strategies. In the artificial world of Mankind we have hybrids that are hand selected from nature to bring out unique characteristics that Mankind deems what is good. Color is one, like Italians that come in many hues naturally are deliberately selected for the lighter hues. Some beekeepers think they are pretty.
Since the bees I sell are not pure of any strain, then queens produced may be, and can be, of any color hue honey bees come in. So I will not replace a queen that you do not like the color of. You may not like black bees, yellow bees, or let’s say tiger-striped, but you will be getting what you paid for, a hybrid bee. I sell hybrid bees.
One of the reasons other commercial queen producers put out yellow (Italian), or black Carniolan consistently is because they sort out the colors their customers demand of color. In their large operations do you think they never see opposing queen colors. The public citizen beekeeper only knows they get what they pay for.
If what it is you want is a consistently black, or yellow queen bee then you might want to buy bees from another supplier whose queen producers select for color. New World Carniolans are black, but even they can be a lighter color at times. I sell package bees of selected genetics that are hybrid genetics that can and will be any color hue.

Contact information for Alaska Honey Bee is;

907-242-0588
EMAIL; klm@gci.net

Keith Malone
Alaska Honey Bee
P.O. Box 671092
Chugiak, AK 99567

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