Terms & Conditions

Made-to-Order Live Bee Policy: No refunds on any live bee sales.

Live bees are produced to order and require weeks or months of advance planning, labor, and colony allocation once purchased.

Our bees are guaranteed healthy at the time of pickup or delivery and include a fertile queen, eggs, larvae, capped brood, and drawn frames. Once bees leave our care, management, handling, installation, environmental conditions, and exposure risks are beyond our control. For this reason, survival, performance, and long-term success cannot be guaranteed.

All live bee sales are final. No refunds, cancellations, or replacements are offered once purchase is completed.

All nucs & queens, are live bees. Because bees are living organisms and conditions change rapidly, delivery or pickup dates may shift due to weather or colony health. We make every reasonable effort to meet listed dates and will communicate clearly if changes are necessary.

Queen acceptance and colony performance depend on many variables, including timing, handling, installation method, weather, and colony condition. These outcomes are not guaranteed, and no refunds or replacements are offered after possession has transferred.

Honey bees are not fully domesticated livestock. They forage freely, travel miles daily, and are exposed to pesticides, pathogens, parasites, and unknown colonies beyond any beekeeper’s control. Even in well-managed operations, annual colony losses of 30–50% are common across North America.

By purchasing live bees, you acknowledge that beekeeping involves unavoidable biological risk and agree that responsibility transfers at pickup or delivery. Colony loss does not indicate unhealthy bees at the time of sale and does not entitle the buyer to a refund.

We follow established industry best practices, including responsible breeding, inspections, queen evaluation, disease and mite management, and clean handling. We have been selling bees for nearly 20 years and will always try to help customers succeed, but we cannot insure against biology, environment, or unknown disease pressures.