Where to Buy Bees near Stanwood
Stanwood Bee Company
18524 Swanson Ln
Stanwood, WA 98292
By Appointment Only
Tim Welsh: (425) 681-5793
Les’s Bees Bellingham, WA
Woods Bee Company
Where to Buy Queens (per WSU)
Stanwood Camano Beekeepers Association is a member organization of the Washington State Beekeepers Association. As a member, we have access to Washington State University’s Honeybee program research team for advice. This list of Queen providers used by WSU has been provided to us by Briana Price, the Honeybee Program Extension Coordinator at WSU. Note that these Queen producers are located in California or Oregon and that shipping mated Queens can damage the sperm cells stored in the queen’s spermatheca, so use this list with caution.
(Local Queens are always better, so try the above bee vendors first!)
Also, Steve Sheppard and Sue Cobey mentioned that these people don’t usually fulfill small hobbyist orders as often, so they recommend a group of beekeepers doing a bulk order to have a better chance of getting bees.
Philip Russell
Strachan Apiaries
2522 Tierra Buena Rd
Yuba City, CA 95993
(530) 674-3881
New World Carniolan
Russell Heitkam
Heitkam’s Honey Bees
4700 1st Ave, Orland, CA 95963
(530) 865 9562
Kamron Koehnen
C.F. Koehnen & Sons, Inc.
3131 Highway 45
Glenn, CA 95943
(530) 865 8802
Cordovan Italian and Carniolan
Leonard & Brad Pankratz
Can-Am Apiaries
450 3rd Avenue
Orland, CA 95963
(530) 865 2516
Ray Olivarez
Olivarez Honey Bees
6398 Co Rd 20
Orland, CA 95963
(877) 865-0298
Italian, Carniolan, Saskatraz
John Jacobs
Old Sole Apiaries
Rouge River, OR
(541) 582 2337
Survivor Stock, Caucasian