Queen Rearing Supplies

Professional Queen Rearing, Grafting & Colony Multiplication Supplies

Raising your own queens from your calmest, highest-yielding colonies transforms your apiary’s profitability and independence. Our Queen Rearing Supplies collection equips you with precision grafting tools, Jenter/Nicot no-graft systems, cell bar frames, and marking kits used in our own Ibadan breeding yards.

Everything You Need to Breed Elite Queens

• Precision Chinese & Stainless Steel Grafting Needles: Ultra-thin flexible tongues and illuminated magnifying grafting tools for transferring 24-hour worker larvae into cell cups without rolling or damage.

• Complete No-Graft Cell Cup Kits & Hair-Roller Cages: Modular queen rearing boxes, brown plastic cell cups, cell bar blocks, and emerging protector cages that prevent the first virgin queen from destroying sister cells.

• International 5-Color Queen Marking Pens, Catchers & Introduction Cages: Non-toxic Posca/opalith marking kits, one-handed plunger marking tubes, and Benton shipping/introduction cages.

Important: Schedule your queen grafting calendar so virgin queens emerge and take mating flights when mature drones are abundant and sunny afternoon weather is stable.

Q: What is the international queen marking color code?
A: Beekeepers worldwide use a 5-year color cycle based on the last digit of the year: White (1 or 6), Yellow (2 or 7), Red (3 or 8), Green (4 or 9), and Blue (5 or 0). Marking your queens lets you know her exact age at a glance and makes spotting her on a crowded frame effortless.

Q: Can a beginner raise queens without learning manual larval grafting?
A: Yes! Our Complete No-Graft Queen Rearing Box Kit lets you confine the laying queen onto removable plug cells for 24 hours; once the eggs hatch into tiny larvae, you simply unplug the cups and mount them directly onto cell bars—zero manual grafting required.