We teach hobby beekeepers and small beekeeping operators how to make splits and expand their colony numbers using their existing colonies.

If you find queen cells in your hive, do not harm them until you know for sure why they are there. Ultimately, ALL queen cells are valuable and should be used to either sell, donate, make splits or replace an old queen.

Even though it's winter time now - Autumn is not far away.

Prepare now by getting the making splits kit:

• spare catch boxes

• internal feeder frames for each nuc

• queen clips

• queen cages

• white sugar 500g per catch box

• get a list of people who may need queens or

• make a list of people that want to buy queen cells

There's only a short 7-9 day window when queen cells are sealed and capped before the virgin queen bees emerge in South Africa.