Hive & Colony Maintenance

Standard Size for 9-5/8" Depth Boxes Bees need drone comb to be healthy.  These frames are effectively used to increase your mating success for queen rearing.  However, their best use is for mite control.  Mites prefer drone cells due...

Similar features as the 10 frame top divided feeder.  Works nicely with 5 frame nuc equipment. Beekeeper notes: See additional images provided from our showroom so that you can see how this feeder works on 5-frame equipment. You will notice that it...

Feed hives efficiently. Low profile 360° trough allows many bees to feed at once.  Fill trough with a coil of nylon rope to give bees a surface to stand on and prevent them from drowning. Place feeder on the inner cover (but allow room for the...

Amino-B Booster is a specially formulated apiary blend of free amino acids that can be mixed with Honey-B-Healthy which enhances its attractiveness to bees and prevents fermentation.  As a blend of of free amino acids it is assimilated rapidly,...

Replacement lid for the 1 gallon Pail Feeder (664). 

Fill the pail and ensure it is completely sealed all the way around.  Invert the pail (yep, turn it upside down) away from the hive and let it drip a little bit until it stops. This should adequately determine if you have a nice vacuum seal. ...

Honey-B-Healthy is a feeding stimulant formulated with natural essential oils.  Prevents mold and fungus in mixed syrup, boosts immune system, calms bees when sprayed, works to mask pheromones when combining weak colonies and improves queen...

Lure measures 2-3/4" long.  Enough to last about 3 months.  This lure replicates the nasanov pheromone, or the "come hither"  scent scout bees use to mark a potential home site for its swarm.  Very effective!  

At the request of readers and instructors, Dr. Connor has added sixty more pages of techniques and queen management ideas. He has expanded the concept of the queenless builder colony for use by those beekeepers who want to graft more frequently. This...

This video shows the capture of 9 swarms in different situations, feral colony, bee removal, dealing with the bees after the catch, equipment and other bonus video with Ohio beekeeper, Dave Duncan.  This is an awesome DVD shot in High Def...

This is really the quickest, cheapest and easiest way to remove those straggler bees clinging to frames at harvest time.  Not recommended as a way to clear large amounts of bees from frames, as you can do a bit of damage to the bees.  However,...

Place between brood boxes and honey super to keep the queen down in the brood nest and from laying in your honey super. Worker bees pass back and forth through it. It is worth noting that there isn't any difference between a plastic queen excluder for...