Queen Excluders

Stainless Steel Queen Excluder with 0.4mm thick Stainless Steel Rim. High quality and built to last.

These excluders don't corrode and oxidise like the common galvanised steel excluders.

Kind to the bees! The smooth stainless steel is gentle on their wings. 

The excluder is made from 304 grade stainless steel and is the threaded wire style.

Dimensions: 506mm x 406mm x 4mm thick.

There are two options available;

• 22mm rim all the way around
• 50mm rims on (one side of) the ends, 22mm on the sides
  

The 50mm rim provides much better protection against accidental damage when using a hive tool to crack full honey supers.

We also have stainless steel Excluders with a Wooden Rim

Stainless steel queen excluder for Technoset beehives.

Has a top entry giving the bees the option of a quicker entry and exit.

Plastic Queen Excluder

506mm x 406mm x 3mm

Yellow

For efficient Varroa Mite control in beehives when using Oxalic Acid for treatment.

Check out our Blog Post on Brood Breaks in Hives

Two size options available:
- Full Depth
- 3/4 Depth

Oxalic acid treatments do not usually kill the mites that are inside capped brood cells. There is now a very efficient and effective solution!

Lock the queen in this cage to create a brood break period. Treat the hive with Oxalic Acid while there is no capped brood and achieve a very high Varroa kill rate.

See Data Sheet of testing done on this

Oxalic acid can be applied by vaporization, fogging or by the dribble method.

Check this link for more info:-

http://scientificbeekeeping.com/oxalic-acid-questions-answers-and-more-questions-part-1-of-2-parts/

Due to its large size the bees don't feel queenless and are less likely to build queen cells. It has queen excluder sides so that nurse bees can still enter the cage and care for the queen.

There is a large opening under the top cap to release the bees when required. Only 25mm wide at the top and will fit in a standard brood box along with 10 frames with 33mm end bars. The main body of the frame is only 16mm wide so as not to interfere with brood emerging alongside.

The bottom edge is curved on the full depth cage to match the typical shape of the winter cluster.

There are many other applications.

In warmer locations, the queen can be locked up over winter to stop her laying eggs to conserve stores and to stop the Varroa mites from breeding.

Can also be used to bank an extra queen over winter when running 2 queen colonies and the bees are already familiar with 2 queens in the hive.

We recommend that clients add a small piece of wood as shown, if using the cage over winter. The wood is naturally the warmest material for the queen to rest on, while being surrounded by nurse bees.

The suggested wood dimensions as shown, are 20mm x 10mm x 110mm long.
(Tip: - The bottom bar on a beehive frame is often 20mm x 10mm section.)
Wood at 10mm thick is a firm fit, but we still recommend that one or 2 screws are fitted to keep it secure and in the best place. The top cap unclips to allow easy access for the strip of wood.

The top bar is 480mm long. Cage height is 228mm for full depth brood boxes and 175mm high for 3/4 depth.

Top quality product made in Europe from food grade polypropylene.

Stock supplied may be a different colour to what is shown in the photos.

The bee hives with top entrances usually outperform other bee hives in two ways:

• There is less brood chamber congestion from honey.
• More surplus honey is stored in the honey supers.

This product incorporates an innovative entrance 120mm wide with a landing board. It comes with an entry guard included. If required, it can be fitted vertically to guard against wasps or inserted horizontally to block the entry when the bee hive is shifted.

Can be used on any standard 10 frame Langstroth bee hive.

Weight: 0.3 Kg

Top quality food-grade polypropylene construction.

Rim thickness: 10mm

Please note:- Stock colours may be different to yellow as shown in the photo below.

For colonies with 2 queens.

Put this next to the queen excluder to reduce the amount of pheromone transfer between boxes to help have a happy hive with two queens

Kitset Queen Excluder Rim

17mm Thick. Pre-drilled ready for screwing together

Made to suit queen excluder mesh.

Available as dipped on undipped