Beekeeping Tools and Accessories

Discover Apisolis, the future of beekeeping innovation. Revolutionizing hive inspections, Apisolis provides a modern, healthier alternative to traditional smokers by harnessing the power of gentle and safe vapour.

Key Features:

Comfort: Apisolis excels in user-friendliness. Featuring automatic shut-off for efficiency, it simplifies hive inspections, making them smoother and more enjoyable.

Health: Designed with safety in mind, Apisolis eliminates flames, reducing burn risks and harmful smoke inhalation. Its gentle steam ensures a secure experience for both beekeepers and bees alike. Smoke from fires is carcinogenic and some beekeepers get asthma from the smoke inhalation. Use Apisolis to avoid these health hazards.

Safety: You can't start a fire with an Apisolis! Excellent tool when there is a fire ban. Many forestry companies ban smokers from their forests in summer. Here is the safe answer. Equipped with automatic temperature control and capable of producing uniform output, Apisolis generates vapors only as needed, minimizing accidents during use. 

Durability and reliability: Built to last and is fully repairable with spare parts readily available ensuring a long lifespan and sustained performance.

Low running costs: The tank on the Apisolis holds 15 mls of fragrance and will last for 460 long slow puffs! 

Integral rechargeable battery: Great for a days work. Recharge battery each night after use, or after each tankful of fragrance, whatever comes first. 

Top Quality. Made in France. 

Pack Contents:

This comprehensive pack includes everything needed to begin using Apisolis:

• 1 Apisolis Vaporizer: The core component, featuring innovative, user-friendly design.
• 1 Apisolis Native - 120ml: A specially formulated solution for generating soothing and safe vapor. Click Here  for more solution. The bottle will fill the tank on the Apisolis 8 times.
• 2x Coils: Ensuring extended and reliable use of the vaporizer. Click Here for replacement coils. One coil is required to create the vapour. The second one is a spare part to keep in storage. 
• 1 USB Charger Cord: Convenient for quick charging wherever you are.
• User Guide: With photos included.

Apisolis complements rather than replaces traditional smokers and is ideal for non-aggressive colonies and routine checks. It’s the preferred choice for beekeepers prioritizing health, bee welfare, and environmental impact. Start with Apisolis today for gentler, safer, and more sustainable beekeeping practices.

Excellent tool for AP2 apiary inspectors. Fit a plastic bag over the Apisolis, cut a hole for the nozzle. It can then be used without soiling it with potential AFB contamination. Simply change the bag for each apiary and the bellows don't have to be sterilized. Save heaps of time! 

Apisolis Native fragrance composition: Propylene glycol of plant origin & ECOCERT certified. Active ingredients present in essential oils.

The integral battery is 4400 mAh capacity. A 1 amp charger will take around 4 hours to charge it.

A few examples of accidental fires caused by beehive smokers:-

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/mid-north-beekeeper-taken-to-hospital-after-fierce-scrub-fire/LAKLFMLOEHGYNVLGUWH54OANGA/

https://www.lejsl.com/faits-divers/2014/07/19/les-incendies-detruisent-plus-de-1000-ha-au-nord-de-madrid

https://www.larepubliquedespyrenees.fr/faits-divers/incendie/arbus-un-apiculteur-met-accidentellement-le-feu-a-des-herbes-seches-12076186.php?csnt=19255aae888

https://www.sbsun.com/2022/06/07/hesperia-brush-fire-caused-by-a-beekeepers-smoker-fire-officials-say/

BFCM Deal! - Maximum of 1 per order.
Only while stock lasts

Hive tool. Stainless steel Maxant type.  270mm long.

Volume discounts available. Please tell us what quantity you require and the freight address and we can give you our best quote. Click here to contact us now.

Another great solution for killing Varroa Mites!

Apistan. 10 strips per packet. Price is for a packet of 10 strips.

120 packets of 10 strips per outer carton. (1200 Strips)

Cartons of 120 Packs (1200 Strips) available for $5400.00+GST - Contact us direct to purchase.

Use 2 strips per brood box.

Key Facts:

• High proven efficacy in a six-week treatment period
• Long-term control
• Easy to use
• No detectable residue in honey
• Safe for bees and beekeepers
• The strips release exactly the right amount of active ingredient
• Effective again after a few seasons of non-use even where resistance was once present.

How Apistan works:
As the bees come into contact with the Apistan strip, they pick up a minute amount of tau-fluvalinate – whilst another similar minute quantity emerges from within the strip to take its place on the surface becoming available for other passing bees. As the bees interact within the hive, the active ingredient is spread throughout the colony.

PLEASE NOTE: Larger orders may take 2-3 working days to dispatch - call us if you want to know exactly when. We will endeavour to get them out you as soon as possible.

 

Bee Brush. (Horse hair bristle and Plastic handle)

Hessian Sack - The best smoker fuel!

These sacks are 48 x 79cm 

Heavy Duty Emlock beehive strapper with 5m of galv strapping 0.5mm thick. Strong handle 4.7mm thick.

The strapping is 25% thicker than the strap used on many other Emlocks sold in NZ.

Volume discounts available. Please tell us what quantity you require and the freight address and we can give you our best quote. Click here to contact us now.

Polypail with lid - For holding up to 20L or 30 KGs of Honey.

High quality food grade plastic.

Made in NZ

Bulk supply available - Please contact us if you are interested.

Note: If multiple buckets with gates are purchased, the gates maybe supplied loose ready to fit, to save on freight (stack them together)

Frame holder. Welded Stainless Steel construction for a tough long life.

A ""must have"" for every beekeeper.

Suits all the usual Langstroth size frames sold in NZ.

Will mount on the edge of a super up to 23mm thick.

We used to place frames on the grass near the entry but it squashes some bees and there is a high risk that if the queen is there, she will crawl off the frame and could get lost.

Beehive Smoker. Stainless Steel 10cm diameter and 28cm high with vinyl bellows.

Multifunction Hive tool. ""Jack the Ripper"" type. Stainless steel.  260mm long.

Very strong and combines the best features of the Kelly and Maxant hive tools all into one.

12 volt Oxalic Acid Vaporizer

150w element

Internal cord for easy of use.

Repeat every 4 days for 2 brood cycles to kill any mites that come from capped cells. Alternatively use our Queen Cage Frame to create a period when there is no capped brood. If there is no capped brood, one good application early in morning or late in evening when all the field bees are there will kill virtually all the mites.

Click Here for a battery to use

Click Here for Instructions

BFCM Deal! - Maximum of 1 per order.
Only while stock lasts

Hive tool. Stainless steel Kelly type. 240mm long, 2.5mm thick.

This is the most popular size and style used.

Volume discounts available. Please tell us what quantity you require and the freight address and we can give you our best quote. Click here to contact us now.

Double layer honey strainer. Stainless steel. 242mm diameter. To suit 20kg pails.

Adjustable support bracket. Extends out to 395mm wide.

The top strainer is approximately 1300 micron and the lower fine strainer is approximately 550 micron.

Uncapping fork with 20 points. 70mm wide.

Also know as a cappings scratcher

great for getting those parts the knife missed or using to uncap your frame in general

Apiguard Thymol Gel.

The Thymol scent is very powerful at killing any Varroa mites that are in the hive but not in capped brood.

50g tray - Use one tray per hive per application.

3kg Tub - Comes with measuring scoop - 50g per application

Full instructions are included with each dispatch. See FAQ Here

Recommended application:- Put 50g (there is a measuring scoop that comes with the tub) on a supplied card on top of the upper most brood box with a spacer rim or empty super. 

The bees take the gel out of the hive. That activity spread the vapours through the brood box. 

Repeat the procedure 2 weeks later with another 50g dose. 

Registered for use in Australia in NSW and ACT as at 13-10-2023.
Product name:- Apiguard® Prod65570 

PLEASE NOTE: Larger orders may take 2-3 working days to dispatch - call us if you want to know exactly when. We will endeavour to get them out you as soon as possible.

 

This latch kit has a short lever and is designed to suit the floors but is also suitable to use with all the boxes.

Comes as a pair with 12 screws.

They are an optional item and need to be ordered separately unless already specified in a beehive package.

Click Here for Hive Connector Latch kit with long levers.

Smoker. Stainless Steel 10cm diameter and 25cm high with PVC bellows.

The most popular size and excellent value.

The Technosetbee brush has very soft bristles so as not to harm your bees and will last for years.

The fibres are a combination of natural and synthetic materials.

Weight: 0.08 Kg. Length: 352mm.

Please note:- Stock colours may be different to the photo shown.

Wire mesh Queen Excluder cleaning tool.

This is the perfect way to get started extracting small amounts of honey.

It has all you need to do it in a basic way.

The kit includes:

1x 20l (30kg) Polypail with lid

1x 20l (30kg) Polypail with lid and Honey gate fitted.

1 x Uncapping fork

1 x Manual uncapping knife

1 x Stainless steel honey strainer

10 x 500g Honey Pottles



Use the uncapping fork to uncap the cells or try using the uncapping knife after heating it up in boiling water.

Once uncapped, lie the frame face down on a rack over a clean food tray to allow the honey come out of the cells. Using a little bit of gentle heat will make the honey come out faster.

Store the honey in the pail with the honey gate. Once it is full or you have completed extraction let it out through the honey gate into the other drum while filtering it with the honey strainer.

Once the pail with the honey gate is completely emptied and cleaned out, put the filtered honey back in it. Then using the honey gate, pottle your honey!

Ensure wherever you do this, it is bee proof!

Beehive Smoker. Stainless Steel 10cm diameter and 31cm high with vinyl bellows.

Our largest smoker. Holds a lot of fuel for a long slow burn time.

Volume discounts available. Please tell us what quantity you require and the freight address and we can give you our best quote. Click here to contact us now.

Stainless Frame Wire. 0.55mm diameter 250g Roll

Frame Groove Cleaning Tool

Hive tool. Stainless steel flat style. 285mm long and 3.8mm thick.

Very strong.

The hook end style works well on all frame styles.

Electric uncapping Knife.

Blade length is 250mm to the tip.

230v

Frame grip. Zinc plated. Suits wood and plastic frames.

The pivot point is very close to the jaws which ensures a very good tight grip of the frame.

Excellent when working with the Technosetbee trifold frames in the Q8 Queen Mating Nucs.

Hive tool. Stainless steel Kelly type. 260mm long, 2.8mm thick.

This is the most popular style used.

Volume discounts available. Please tell us what quantity you require and the freight address and we can give you our best quote. Click here to contact us now.

Frame Wire Tensioner