Bees & Queens

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The 4-Frame Nuc is already installed in the APIMONDIA Gold Medal winning 10-Frame Apimaye Brood.
The marked Queen is a first generation Rottnest daughter - superb !
Bees in the 10-Frame Apimaye hive will travel well, and develop more quickly

• Apimaye - 1st place winner in Beehive Innovations Award in Apimondia International Apicultural Congress
• Easiest bee hive to work with for both beginners and professional beekeepers
• Assembled and doesn't need to be painted
• Easy to open and inspect, move or feed the bees, and fighting small hive beetles
• Insulated to withstand extreme weather, and designed to prevent moisture buildup inside the beehive
• Bees can survive colder winters consuming less honey, and spring build up is much faster
• Standard features include screened bottom board perfect for fighting Varroa mite and small hive beetle; split hive entrance with entrance reducers, division/uniting board, pollen trap and 2 top feeders for left and right side of a split hive

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The 4-Frame Nuc is already installed in the APIMONDIA Gold Medal winning 7-Frame Apimaye Brood.
The marked Queen is a first generation Rottnest daughter - superb!.
Bees in the 7-Frame Apimaye hive will travel well, and develop more quickly.

• Apimaye - 1st place winner in Beehive Innovations Award in Apimondia International Apicultural Congress.
• Easiest bee hive to work with for both beginners and professional beekeepers.
• Assembled and doesn't need to be painted.
• Easy to open and inspect, move or feed the bees, and fighting small hive beetles.
• Insulated to withstand extreme weather, and designed to prevent moisture buildup inside the beehive.
• Bees can survive colder winters consuming less honey, and spring build up is much faster.
• Standard features include screened bottom board perfect for fighting Varroa mite and small hive beetle; split hive entrance with entrance reducers, division/uniting board, pollen trap and 2 top feeders for left and right side of a split hive

The Ultimate 4 compartment insulated Queen Breeding Hive complete with specialised Queen Frames (16), Division Boards (4), Feeders (4), Entrance Closures (4).  See full DESCRIPTION below

Grafting Tool – Simple

Grafting Tool Double – Stainless-Steel

Grafting Tool Plastic

The Grafting Tool is used in Queen rearing to remove larvae from cells. This tool has a flexible head & tongue that easily slides under the larvae and royal jelly to scoop it out of the cell. It is spring loaded to delicately remove the larvae and place it safely into the cell cup. A non-slip grip in the middle section gives you excellent control.

Grafting Tool – Stainless-Steel

The Hambly Queen Dial

This device is perfect for the beginner beekeeper right through to those using the tool to plan their queen rearing. 

The charts can help you identify how long your hive has been queenless or how quickly your queen started laying. If you have an unexpected cell that you keep it can guide your decision making.

You can write your dates and details straight onto the card then wipe your data off when you want to re-use. There is no more second guessing how long the queen has been out!

Deborah Hmbly created this product for her queen rearing classes. The tool is ideal for both professionals and hobby beekeepers, and is useful even if you don't rear queens!

Immobiliser for Queen Marking

• To use, locate your queen and gently press the cage into the brood, ensuring you do not harm the Queen.
• Push the cage further into the frame to secure the Queen, allowing you to mark HRH.
• You can use a pen, paint, or coloured discs for marking, with the colour indicating the year the Queen was born.
• If you use paint or a pen, lift the cage slightly to allow her to move but not escape, giving the marking time to dry.
• Once you are satisfied with the marking, completely lift the cage and release HRH.

COLLECTION WA ONLY - TAKING ORDERS NOW FOR DELIVERIES DURING SPRING 2025

Strong 4-Frame Full Depth Nucleus includes 4 frames covered with bees, brood, honey and the all-important newly raised mated and tested Beewise Queen, a first generation daughter of a Rottnest Breeder Queen .

It is important to note that the demeanour and performance of your hive is totally dependent upon the quality of the Queen; and Beewise Queens are superb being favourites of many commercial beekeepers.

• PROOF OF DPIRD HIVE REGISTRATION REQUIRED
• COLLECTION O'CONNOR ONLY

This mesh bag is big enough to contain a single nucleus or a wood 8 frame brood box.

Prevents bees escaping during transit.

Has a nylon draw string and measures 60cm x 100cm.

Can also be used over a branch to contain a swarm before placing in your hive.

Holds up to 20 JZ-BZ Queen Cages. Built-in compartment for candy and sponges.
Provides sturdy transportation.
Essential for safe transportation of Queens!
Queen cages not included.

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Beewise Marked Mated Bee Queens are first generation Rottnest daughters - carefully bred and mated under controlled conditions to ensure they are:

• Excellent foragers
• Gentle
• Superb comb builders
• Clean/excellent housekeepers, & hence less prone to disease
• Use little propolis
• Reduced tendency to swarm
• Tendency to collect flower honey rather than honey dew

For top performance, Queens should be replaced if:

1. Your beehive is aggressive
2. The beehive is performing poorly, e.g. disease, poor laying pattern
3. The queen is more than two years old

THE PERFORMANCE OF YOUR HIVE IS TOTALLY DEPENDENT UPON THE QUALITY OF YOUR QUEEN

Food grade PE multi-purpose JZ BZ style Queen Cage

Minimum 10 Ship 

Plastic Queen Cage – Proven design & used universally

Fit perfectly between frames

Slots for ventilation and communication and has an opaque section for the Queen if she needs to hide
Ideal Queen Cages to bank, ship, or even introduce your queens

Queen Catcher Clip – Stainless-Steel

The best Queen Catcher Marker Cage - one hand operation.

Easy to use, this one hand Queen catcher makes catching Queen alone so much easier. 

• Simply place the open end over the Queen and use forefinger to gently close the flexible shutter.
• Use thumb of same hand to depress the plunger to push the Queen up to the marking mesh.
• Mark the queen, leave her for 5 minutes to let the paint dry, then return HRH to the hive.

Queen Catcher Marker Cage - one hand operation.

Easy to use, this one hand Queen catcher makes catching Queen alone so much easier. 

• Simply place the open end over the Queen and use forefinger to gently close the flexible shutter.
• Use thumb of same hand to depress the plunger to push the Queen up to the marking mesh.
• Mark the queen, leave her for 5 minutes to let the paint dry, then return HRH to the hive.

• For an undisturbed examination of the queen & also for introducing the queen & attendants into cages.
• Remove foam & place over queen/workers, hold upright.
• Queen will walk up the tube.
• Remove rubber bung & place over hole of cage.
• Replace foam & blow through the foam.
• The bees will rapidly enter the cage.

Queen Cell Cup with Isolation Cage used for Queen raising

Queen Cell Cups with lugs – Black Polypropylene

Queen Frame Press Cage

• Trap the Queen on the frame when manipulating the frames reducing the possibility of HRH being damaged
• Can also be used when introducing a new Queen

Made in USA

• This is the finest Queen grafting tool available to remove and replace the tiny Bee larva and eggs
• The thumb-controlled lever is comfortable to use and takes the work out of grafting eggs
• Ships with one (1) replacement tongue made of 304 stainless steel
• The tip of the tongue is formed in the shape of a spoon to easily scoop larva from the cells

Queen Marking Cage with Plunger

• Queen Making Pen - five colours available
• Non-toxic, Water-based marking pen, allows Beekeepers to readily locate and track their Queens
• Colours: yellow, green, red, green, blue & white

WHY MARK YOUR QUEEN?

So you can see if she has swarmed or been superseded

This sounds counterintuitive – how would you be able to find the coloured spot if the queen has swarmed or been replaced? Well, you can’t. But knowing that the queen in the hive IS marked, you will know that any unmarked queen found in the hive is not the queen you had there originally. This is helpful particularly at times when you haven’t managed to get to the bees in a while and they could have swarmed and requeened or even superseded in between inspections.

So when she swarms into a bush, you know which hive she came from!

Perhaps combined with using numbers and as long as you have kept good records about which queen is in what hive, this prevents you from having to go through all your colonies to determine where the most recent swarm has come from. You should be able to spot a marked queen fairly easily in a swarm as there are fewer bees and no combs to hide round the back of.

For breeding

For beekeepers rearing queens of specific strains, using colours as well as numbers can help to keep track of breeding lines.

Made in USA

• Replacement tongue for the Queen Grafting Master tool, the finest Queen grafting tool available
• This tongue is made of 304 stainless steel
• The tip of the tongue is formed in the shape of a spoon to easily scoop larva from the cells

Royal Queen Rearing Kit complete from start to finish, PLUS Royal Jelly Production.
Produce a few Queens and you are well in front financially, and your hives will leap ahead.

This highly professional kit from Korea includes Queen Rearing Calendar plus:

Swarm Boss Premium Bee Lure is a scientifically based formulation containing various terpenoids and other organic compounds, which accurately mimic Nasonov pheromone.

Set Swarm Traps as follows:

• Select a clean used 8-frame or 10-frame brood box with a non-vented / solid base.  The trap needs to be ca 40L – Nuc boxes are too small. 
• Apply 2 single sprays of Beewise Swarm Boss to the underside of the cover; and 2 single sprays of Beewise Swarm Boss on the base adjacent to the entrance.  Don’t over-do the sprays as more is not better.
• Insert new frames with wax foundation.  If you use developed honey comb you are likely to attract wax moths.
• Reduce entrance to about 10cm.
• Place box at a location conspicuous to the bees at height of about 2 metres.
• Lift the rear of the hive 1cm to ensure no water ingress.
• Sniff the Swam Trap every 2 weeks and if Beewise Swarm Boss cannot be detected by nose, reapply as above.