Professional Queen Incubator LYSON

01 · 34.5 °C AND 65-80 % HUMIDITY

And why the tenth of a degree matters

A sealed cell needs a steady 34.5 °C and a relative humidity around 65-80 %. It is not a wide window: swings, even small ones, show up as queens with deformed wings or emergences that never happen.

This incubator regulates temperature to ±0.1 °C with a fuzzy-logic algorithm and humidity to ±1 %, with a solenoid valve that feeds the humidifier by itself. The ventilation spreads both through the whole interior.

02 · EVERY CELL IN ITS CAGE

This is not optional and it is almost never said

A newly emerged virgin queen kills the ones that have not come out yet. With 220 or 250 cells inside, putting them in loose means losing nearly all of them: each cell goes in its cage or protector, and there are incubator-specific cages in our range for cents.

That is also why capacity is given as a range: it takes 220 to 250 cells depending on the support you use, because what takes up room is the protector, not the cell.

03 · SEALED CELLS ONLY

And hands off for the first few days

The incubator comes in once the cell is sealed and runs to emergence. Before that, the bees raise the cell: there are no nurse bees or feeding here, only climate.

And one handling precaution: a freshly sealed cell is not shaken or knocked during the first days, because the pupa is in full transformation. Move it carefully and set it upright, tip downwards.

04 · THE ALARMS ARE THE INSURANCE

And that is where the money in this machine sits

It carries a door-open warning, emergency shutdown if humidity spikes and protection against voltage surges. Over a fifteen-day cycle, any of those three unattended means losing the whole batch.

On top come the connectivity ports to follow it from a phone, a tablet or a server. Not showroom automation: it is being able to check the temperature on a Sunday night without driving to the workshop.

05 · THREE TRAYS AND 60 KILOS

A cabinet, not a bench appliance

It is three trays of 560 × 370 mm inside a cabinet of 900 × 500 × 750 mm, all in stainless steel, with interior lighting and a double door to see inside without opening fully.

It weighs 60 kg and runs on 230 V. Put it where it gets no direct sun and no draught: the thermostat compensates, but the less it has to compensate, the better the cycle comes out.

06 · BEFORE YOU BUY

Count the protector cages: one per cell.