Queen Clipping Scissors

When you arrive at the apiary during full rosemary bloom and see half of your foragers hanging from a branch, your heart skips a beat. There goes your best queen —the one that has given you three supers of crystal-clear rosemary honey— about to leave with half the colony. It’s natural swarming instinct, but for the beekeeper it means losing the most productive part of the season.

Wing clipping is a simple and very effective management technique to prevent this. It’s not cruelty: bees don’t feel pain like mammals, and the queen can still move normally on the combs. The only thing you avoid is her flying away when swarm fever starts.

To do it safely you need a precise tool. These queen wing clipping scissors are designed for a clean and accurate cut, trimming one third of the wing smoothly and without unnecessary stress. The fine, sharp blades ensure precision, while the ergonomic design provides a secure grip when you’re holding the future of the entire colony in your hands.

Practical benefits for the beekeeper:

• Swarm prevention: the queen falls near the entrance and the workers return to the hive, giving you crucial time to check brood frames and control queen cells.
• Safety in introductions: reduces the risk of losing a newly accepted queen during the critical first days.
• Permanent marking: a clipped wing never fades. Veteran trick: cut the right wing in even years and the left in odd years, so you always know the queen’s age at a glance.

Made of durable metal, they withstand intensive use during spring and keep their sharpness season after season. Their compact size makes them easy to carry in your beekeeping suit pocket, always ready for action. Because in beekeeping, as you know, opportunity doesn’t wait.