Honeybees are typically purchased in one of two ways, a package, or a nuc. A package is generally three pounds of bees, with a separately caged queen, all in ascreened box. The package bees must be moved into a hive. A package in 2013 from the Walter T. Kelley Company will start at $89. read more
Your cost per bee—dead or alive—is about $75/10500 or 0.71 cents per bee. However, this calculation does not consider the mated queen that came with the package. So let’s deduct $20 for her and recalculate. read more