At Sandalwood Apiaries in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria, supporting hobbyist and commercial beekeepers across Nigeria and Africa with traceable queen bees, standardized Langstroth hive equipment, and practical apiary training is what we do. We match field-tested tropical beekeeping supplies with proven, gentle breeding stock built for healthy, high-yield colonies.
Founded in 2020, Sandalwood Apiaries has grown into Nigeria’s trusted beekeeping partner—providing precision woodenware, stainless-steel honey and smoke equipment, and hands-on workshops to help beekeepers succeed in every season.
Nigeria’s trusted supplier of traceable queen bees, Langstroth hives, beekeeping equipment & apiary support.
Browse our reliable collection of honey extractors, uncapping tools, strainers & bottling equipment!
Everything you need for pure beeswax processing, comb foundation & candle making.
From hive management and queen rearing to honey harvesting, we offer practical hands-on workshops for all skill levels.
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At Sandalwood Apiaries, we supply a complete range of field-tested beekeeping equipment including standardized modular Langstroth beehives, wooden frames, beeswax foundation, ventilated protective suits, leather gloves, stainless-steel smokers, hive tools, feeders, queen rearing kits, and food-grade honey extractors. Our equipment serves both backyard beginners and large-scale commercial apiaries across Nigeria and Africa.
Every queen bee we breed and supply is reared from carefully evaluated mother colonies in Ibadan, Oyo State and documented by lineage, mating history, and assessment date. We select our breeding stock for calm temperament, strong brood patterns, hygienic behavior, low swarming tendency, and reliable honey production—so you receive queens you can truly know, not just buy.
Yes! We support new beekeepers from day one with complete beginner Langstroth hive starter kits, comfortable ventilated bee suits, easy-to-use smokers, hive tools, and step-by-step guidance to help you establish and inspect your first colonies with confidence.
Unlike generic imported gear with mismatched dimensions, our hive systems and tools are standardized, durable, and tested daily in our own working Nigerian apiaries. We combine reliable equipment, traceable queen breeding, and practical hands-on training under one roof.
Yes. Through our practical workshops in Ibadan, participants learn beekeeping by opening real hives in an active apiary. Our training covers colony establishment, hive inspection, swarm control, queen identification, queen rearing and banking, colony multiplication, and clean honey harvesting.
We stock food-grade stainless-steel honey extractors, serrated uncapping knives, uncapping forks, double-mesh stainless and nylon honey strainers, bottling buckets with honey gates, and pure beeswax rendering supplies so you can harvest clean, high-grade honey efficiently.
You can browse our product categories online, add your hive kits, tools, or protective gear to the cart, and complete your order securely through our website. We dispatch orders promptly from our Ibadan hub with nationwide delivery across Nigeria, as well as store pickup at our Ibadan Apiary Store.
Yes. In addition to mated traceable queen bees and established 4-frame and 5-frame nucleus colonies, we supply specialized queen rearing equipment including grafting tools, cell cups, queen cages, queen marking pens, queen excluders, and ventilated wooden shipping nuc boxes.
Absolutely. We partner with commercial apiaries, agricultural development programs, universities, and beekeeping cooperatives across Nigeria and West Africa to supply bulk Langstroth hives, protective clothing, honey processing lines, and training support. Contact our team for volume pricing.
What Beekeepers Say About Our Equipment & Collections
Ordered a 4-frame stainless steel honey extractor and two uncapping forks from the Processing Equipment collection. Everything arrived well-packaged and the drum spins smoothly with zero vibration.
Awka, Anambra State
Having all beekeeping categories organized in one store makes restocking our cooperative apiary so much easier. Their beeswax foundation sheets have deep cell embossing that our colonies draw out fast.
The heavy-duty stainless smoker with the protective heat guard is the best I have used in ten years of beekeeping. Stays lit throughout our entire morning hive inspections without overheating.
Bought our queen rearing grafting kit, cell cups, and marking cages here. The quality of the tools helped us raise 24 healthy new queens for our out-apiaries this season.
The traceable queen bees we got from Sandalwood Apiaries completely transformed two of our weak colonies. Calm temperament on the comb, tight brood pattern, and our best honey harvest yet.
Finally found Langstroth hive boxes and frames in Nigeria where every super and frame actually fits together properly. Solid timber craftsmanship that holds up in both rainy and dry seasons.
Attended the practical beekeeping workshop in Ibadan before starting my apiary. Opening real hives with their instructors gave me the confidence to manage my own six colonies without fear.
Their ventilated beekeeping suit is a lifesaver under the afternoon sun. Breathable, thick enough to prevent stings, and the zippers are built to last. Fast delivery to Lagos too.
If you haven’t been checking for Small Hive Beetles (SHB) during the humid rainy season, now is the time. As tropical temperatures climb and colonies expand, SHB populations can multiply rapidly. Left unchecked, larvae can slime brood frames, ferment honey, and trigger colony absconding…
Every seasoned Nigerian beekeeper knows the feeling when the bush mango, cashew, and savanna wildflowers burst into bloom. Foragers crowd the landing board at dawn carrying bright golden pollen baskets, and fresh white wax whitens the top bars overnight…
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