Queen Rearing Supplies & Kits
The queen bee is the central figure in any hive, responsible for laying eggs and ensuring the hive’s survival. Queen rearing is one of the most crucial beekeeping skills for those who wish to maintain a healthy and productive colony. By raising their own queens and caring for new queens, beekeepers can enhance honey production and the overall strength of their hives.
We offer a wide range of queen-rearing supplies to keep your cell-building colony productive, whether in the brood nest or nuc boxes. Our specialized queen-rearing equipment is designed to maximize the success of the queen-rearing process, ensuring the well-being of your bee colony.
Maximize Your Queen Rearing Success with Our Specialized Equipment
Ensuring the success of your honey bee colony requires the right queen-rearing supplies tailored to support every stage of the process.
We offer various products that cater to different aspects of raising queens and breeding bees, making beekeeping a seamless experience.
Key Queen Rearing Supplies:
- Plastic Queen Catcher. This spring-loaded catcher allows beekeepers to catch their queens safely, minimizing stress on the hive.
- Queen Bee Markers. These tools make identifying the queen from other bees easy, with convenient color coding based on their age. Marking your queens is essential for tracking the age and productivity of your queen bees.
- One-Handed Queen catcher. The ergonomic design of this one-handed queen catcher lets you conveniently pick up the queen from the mating nucs for marking or moving to new queen cages.
- TempQueen. Used in queen mating nuclei in early spring, this tool maintains significantly higher bee numbers than in non-treated nucs, ensuring the success of the process.
- Filled Candy Tube - This allows for a timed release of your queens, giving them a controlled introduction to the colony. Available in packs of 10 or 100, they are essential for a smooth queen introduction.
- Small Riteway Western & Eastern Queen Shipper - This versatile shipper securely holds either 56 Eastern queen cages or 88 Western queen cages, ensuring your queens arrive safely.
Explore our full range of queen-rearing kit and other supplies to find the perfect tools that will support the queen bee-rearing process and ensure the well-being of your bee colony.