Altitude
Bees
Buy quality Italian Queen Bees, Nucleus Colonies and Bee Hives

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What We Do
We breed quality Italian Queen Bees. Our genetics come from the Beta Bees breeding program and are carefully selected to provide good temperament, good hygienic practice and high honey production.

About Us
Altitude Bees was established by Angharad Lee following the completion of a Level 4 NZQA Queen Bee rearing course at the Otago Polytechnic.
Altitude Bees has a passion for the environment we live in and are here to ensure quality Queen Bees and quality NUCs to ensure the continued thriving bee population of New Zealand.
60,000
bees in a hive at peak summer
1,500
average eggs laid per day by the Queen
3-5km
foraging range of a bee
2
years is the average life span of the Queen Bee

Why You’ll Love Our Queen Bees
By using genetics from the Beta Bees breeding programme our Queen Bees are guaranteed to have the most desirable characteristics.
- High Quality
- Gentle Bees
- High honey productivity
Altitude Bees
Twizel, Mackenzie Country, New Zealand
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