Hive Management: Swarms & Making Splits Class

Hive Management: Swarms & Making Splits ClassSo you got your bees through winter, and that colony is now bursting with bees! Now you need to figure out what to do to next. We're here to help with our course all about the honeybee swarm drive, and how you can harness it to achieve your beekeeping goals. This detailed course will explain how new hives are created. The bees have their own way of doing it, which is swarming; unfortunately this comes with the risk of losing over half your bees and or

The knife portion makes it easy to reach in and cut wax where the bees have attached the comb to the side of the colony

Winner of Best Ontario Honey

Filling honey jars can be a messy job

This hive tool is perfect for working top bar colonies

suitable for our climate

Our queen cells are raised from organic Ontario breeding stock selected for gentleness and disease resistance

The bees have their own way of doing it

Add alcohol (like washer fluid or isopropyl alcohol) to one jar

and are assembled with glue and staples

An additional benefit of having a triple mesh suit is that the bees stinger does not get caught in the mesh

with a corrosion resistant galvanized metal lid

Further security is provided by a tight sealing waist elastic