Overwinter Kit - Hive Wrap, Mouse Guard, Candipolline, Formic Pro & August Queen!

Contains:

• Winter Wrap for one hive - 1 Brood and 1 Super
• 1kg Candipolline Gold
• 1 Mouse Guard
• 1 Carniolan Queen Bee - Dispatch from Hagens - Thursday August 28th 2025
• 1 Dose Formic Pro

Why requeen after a good year, just like the workers that collect your honey, the Queen can become less productive.

This results in poor overwintering, not enough new bees being produced at this crucial time of year to make it through the winter, and the winter bees need to be of the best quality possible.

No one knows what sort of weather we will be presented with, freezing and wet, then the bees will be confined, unable to defecate frequently, which in itself can present problems for the spring.

The queen will be laying all through winter in most areas. This ticking over gives her fresh bees as well as the overwintering older bees to see the hive through the winter.

Varroa counts are too high at the start of winter in December. Treating with Formic Pro in October or even November, our local beekeeper tells us, is very effective, and bees often require no further treatments until spring sometime. See our Formic Pro trial data.

Wrapping your hive to keep off the worst of the winter chill winds also helps; this also has the added benefit of keeping woodpeckers at bay if you are troubled by them.

The next item is a mouse guard so many of us put them on too late, August or September is best, not only will the mouse guard help keep mice out it also serves as a guard against the last of the summer wasps by making the entrance easier to defend, but a word of caution, spend just a little more than the one with round holes, use the one with arches, this will rip hardly any of the pollen from the returning bees legs.

Finally, the queen, our local beekeeper, has been renewing queens every winter. The benefits are enormous when it comes to a flying start to the season, whether early, as this year, or later, as in 2024, the queen is the single most crucial element of the hive.

Here at Hagens, we want to help. We are equipment suppliers, but foremost, we are passionate about nature, particularly honeybees.

To this end, we have designed an overwintering package to help with overwintering.

Please note your whole order will be sent on Thursday August 28th 2025 along with the Queen.