If you have a queen shipped to you, the cage she comes in might look like this one, or it might look slightly different. Be aware that it is possible you will have attendant bees in the cage with ...

Sooner or later, the original queen you started with is going away. Here's how you can safely introduce a new queen bee to ...

The key to controlling any swarm of bees is the queen. Find her and put her in a little wooden box with a metal screen on one side - a “queen cage”. Calm the beard bees You need around 10,000 ...

The cage is made of two clear pieces that snap together around an injection-molded 264-well honeycomb plate for the bees to store food and for the queen to lay eggs in.

All imported escort bees will remain in the original cage, be killed and then examined internally and externally by an entomologist for mites, including varroa. At the end of 14 days, the ...

Keeping queen bees chilled in indoor refrigeration units can make the practice of “queen banking” — storing excess queens in the spring to supplement hives in the fall — more stable and ...