Pin test for hygienic bees

The needles are perfectly aligned to match the honeycomb with each of the cells. It has 50 needles to pierce 50 cells simultaneously. It is designed for standard 5.4 mm cells.

Furthermore, it kills the larvae inside the brood, and allows to check the cleaning behavior of the bee colony.

HOW TO USE

Capped brood and then mark the entire contour with a Posca marker to highlight and outline the piece that has been perforated and to be able to locate it easily in the revision.

Then a review should be done at 6 hours. And check the percentage of cells that have been cleaned. Note: Ideally, they should have removed / removed the brood by more than 80%.