Lion Apiaries
King of Queens
We’re a family-run apiary in Auckland supplying high-quality queens, nucs, and beekeeping services across New Zealand. Whether you’re just starting out or managing a large operation, we’re here to help your hives thrive.
Lion Apiaries
Supporting Beekeepers, One Hive at a Time
We breed and supply high-quality queens, nucleus hives, and offer honey extraction services for beekeepers across New Zealand.
Whether you’re a hobbyist or manage hundreds of hives, we’re here to help your operation thrive.
Queens & cells
Nucs
Extraction
Lion Apiaries
What beekeepers say about us
“We’ve ordered queens from Lion Apiaries for years, largely due to them consistently delivering mated queens and queens cells on the dates ordered and originally agreed upon. As a commercial operation, this planning and reliability is essential. We continue to get good honey production from our hives with the use of Lion Apiaries queens.”
Josh Mossop
Beelieve
“Lion Apiaries is our go to queen supplier. They provide great bees with the best service in the industry. Whether we need one or one thousand high quality queens, Lion Apiaries always delivers.”
Corey Walton
Central Honey Ltd
“We’ve been buying queens from Lion Apiaries for the past four seasons. We’ve been impressed with the quality of the stock, the reliability of supply, and the ease with which orders are processed. The queens they produce are quiet and productive. We look forward to doing business with Lion Apiaries for many years to come.”
Nick Belton
Waiau Apiaries
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