Betterbee's New Products of 2024

If you are a frequent Betterbee customer, you have likely already received and combed through your new 2024 catalog. This year, the beekeeping industry's favorite catalog features many fun, new features as well as new products that will make your beekeeping adventure easier and more enjoyable! Learn more about our new products for 2024 below.

Frame Isolation Cages

Frame Isolation Cage

• Available now in both single deep and single medium, double deep and double medium sizes! Click to shop all available sizes.
• Cost: $30.95+

In addition to our wildly popular single deep and medium frame isolation cages, we are now proudly offering frame isolation cages that hold either two deep frames or two mediums.

This queen isolation cage gives you control over your queen's location, allowing complex queen manipulations without the hassle of other caging or confinement methods. The cage is made of bars spaced like a queen excluder, so the queen can't get out but workers can move freely in and out.

The two-frame cages are especially useful for varroa mite control methods where brood is limited to just two frames and is removed before mites can emerge.

(Not to be confused with the Frame Introduction Cages!) 

Heavy Duty Inner Cover

Heavy Duty Inner Cover

• Available now in both 10 frame and 8 frame sizes!
• Cost: $16.95

Fully made by our partners in Maine, Humble Abodes, this inner cover is meant to last! It is made of a solid, heavy plywood core and an extra-wide pine rim. This heavy-duty inner cover is assembled with glue, staples, AND screws to make it as strong as possible. 

Features a 3/8" plywood core with a top side gap of 3/8". Flip it over to provide a narrower 1/4" gap. Toss it around, beat it up, and it'll keep doing its job for years to come!

Queen Introduction Cages

• Available now in single deep and single medium sizes!
• Cost: $34.95+

The all-new Queen Introduction Cages are designed to keep your new queen safe as you introduce her to an already-established colony. Each cage holds either a single deep or medium frame.

Narrow bar spacing (3.25mm) prevents both queen and workers from entering or leaving, entirely isolating the queen on a frame. The cage top has a folded metal edge to ensure that no bees can come or go without prior beekeeper approval.

(Not to be confused with the Frame Isolation Cages!) 

Kraft Candle Boxes

Kraft candle boxes in all available sizes

• Available now for 7 inch, 9 inch, 11 inch, 13 inch tapers, tealights, and votives.
• Cost: $1.75+

Give your homemade beeswax candles a finished, rustic look with these multi-sized kraft candle boxes! Each box features a clear cover to keep your product safe from the elements. Choose from four sizes of taper boxes each that hold two taper candles, a tealight box that holds 12 tealights, or a votive holder that holds 4 votives.

Tie a bow on or add a customized label and your candles are sure to fly off your farmer's market display!

Lyson Colored Suits and Jackets

• Available now! 
• Cost: $109.95+

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Lyson colored suits and jackets

Introducing the jacket and suit you love from Lyson—now in fun new colors! Made from a 65% polyester / 35% cotton blend, these durable suits and jackets are highly breathable, ensuring comfort even on hot days.

The sleeves have soft elastic cuffs to ensure no bees crawl up your arm, and four pockets (two chest, two side) for all your small supplies. The removable round veil has mesh on the back to keep the air flowing. Available in an adult suit and jacket as well as a child's suit, in a variety of sizes.

Packable Bee Pullover (the PACJAC)

• Available now in small to extra large sizes 
• Cost: $29.89+

Our Packable Pullover is the perfect travel companion for beekeeping on the go, whether you need to catch a swarm or inspect a hive. The pullover packs into its own pocket for easy storage and provides comfortable, breathable protection for everyone.

Features an adjustable drawstring elastic waistband, thumb loops, and flexible veil.

Lyson Basic Line Extractors

• Available now with and without legs!
• Cost: $299+

Introducing the Basic Line of Lyson extractors! The 4 frame extractors, with or without legs, are great economical options for beekeepers who want high-quality, warranty-backed, built-to-last extractors from a brand known for quality. 

Available in a legged and no-leg version, the 4 Frame Basic extractor features a plastic honey gate with black gearbox and legs. This beginner-friendly tangential honey extractor features a side-mounted handle providing greater comfort than other hand crank extractors without sacrificing efficiency. Made of high-quality acid-resistant stainless steel, this machine will last for many years and works best for beekeepers with anywhere from one to a dozen hives.

4x4 Heated Comb Cutter

• Available now
• Cost: $229+

4x4 Heated Comb CutterAvailable soon! Keep an eye on this webpage our socials for the official product launch.

 

Handcrafted in the USA by our friends at Pierce Beekeeping, this electric-heated comb cutter quickly and cleanly slices 4 by 4 inch slices of comb honey!

 Cloake Board

• Available now in 10 frame size
• Cost: $43.29+

Cloake BoardAvailable soon! Keep an eye on this webpage and our socials for the official product launch. 

 

Made by Betterbee, the Cloake board, invented by Henry Cloake, is one of the most effective tools for queen rearing.  It divides a colony into a lower queenright section and an upper queenless section where grafted larvae are readily developed into queen cells. 

The Cloake board allows a single strong hive to be used as both a starter and finisher for making your own queens. Our Cloake board features a steel queen excluder and heavy gauge steel tray.

We are excited to roll out new products not just during catalog season but throughout the entire year! If you are not on our mailing list to receive our monthly newsletter or other emails (we send a maximum of three a month!), then sign up here to "bee in the know!"