Queen Excluders

The Perfect Wooden excluder for those doing acid treatments or just for anyone wanting a good long lasting excluder.

Be sure to read our Blog Post on why stainless matters for Excluders. Click here to view

As acid treatments are now coming more frequent amount beekeepers, so are the rusty galvanised queen excluders.

This stainless steel excluder wont have this problem saving hassels down the tracks. 

507 x 406 x 18mm thick. 4.3mm Mesh gap.

Available with an untreated rim or a microcrystalline dipped rim.

We also have Excluders with a Stainless Steel rim available.

A wooden queen excluder with closable entry - perfect for those wanting to do two queeners or just having the option of a second entry!

Be sure to read our Blog Post on why stainless steel matters for Excluders. Click here to view

These wooden rimmed excluders are great for those doing acid treatments or just for anyone wanting a good long lasting excluder. 

Very gentle on the bees' wings!

As acid treatments are now coming more frequent amongst beekeepers, so are the rusty galvanised queen excluders.

This stainless steel excluder won't have this problem saving hassles down the track. 

507 x 406 x 18mm thick. 4.3mm Mesh gap. 75mm Entry Gate.

The wooden rim is dipped in Microcrystalline wax to protect it from rot.

We also have Excluders with a Stainless Steel rim available.

Stainless Steel Queen Excluder with 4mm Stainless Steel Rim

A lot better quality that the common Galv ones on the market.

The queen excluder mesh is space 4.3mm apart offering premium flow with bees passing through. 

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

We also have 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.

This excluder incorporates an innovative entrance 120mm wide with a landing board and allows the field bees direct access to the honey supers. They will gather more nectar if they don't have to go through the excluder and brood nest to exit the hive. The excluder mesh is a semi-square profile which makes it easier for the bees to get a grip and pull themselves through as compared to the metal mesh excluders.

The excluder comes fitted with a sliding door. If required, it can used to block the entry when the bee hive is shifted.

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

Weight: 0.4 Kg

Top quality food-grade polypropylene construction.

Dimensions: 510mm x 413mm. Rim thickness: 10mm

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

Plastic Queen Excluder

506mm x 406mm x 3mm

Yellow

Reduce the queen laying area to 3 full depth frames. The two parts clip together and are 3mm thick. The vertical part fits neatly into the grooves of a Technosetbee full depth brood box.

It also works well with a wooden brood box – in some cases it may need a small trim with a craft knife to fit better but it should be fine.

The main thing is to make sure it is queen tight around where it meets the floor. Our Technoset bases do a great job with this, as you can buy entrances with a slot to locate it at the floor and keep it queen tight.

A fantastic tool for Queen breeders. Use the excluder to cover 3 empty brood frames. Lock the queen in for one day only, then remove her to the other side of the excluder. The exact age of the larvae is then known at grafting time and the exact day that the queens will emerge from the queen cells. The cells can be safely left in this enclosure without the risk of the queen destroying them.

An additional 3-Frame Excluder can be fitted to the other side of the brood box. Three queens can be overwintered in some areas. It is highly recommended to use the top 4 litre feeder. Special separate entrances can be supplied to remove any risk of a queen going into one of the other enclosures via the entrance. Call us for more information.

This excluder can also be used to control brood production in a big honey flow. 

Manufactured from high quality food grade polypropylene. Weight: 0.35 Kg

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

Vertical Queen Excluder for Q8 Queen Mating Nuc

Replaces an internal divider.

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

Check out our Blog Post on Brood Breaks in Hives

For full depth brood boxes. 

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 made in NZ from NZ Pine.

16.5mm Thick.

Made to suit queen excluder mesh.