Roll Cage

Description

This is a new roll cage for housing queen cells, virgin queens or even capturing queens and other bees.  The caps are interchangeable (same on each end) and have a friction fit.  The caps are designed to be a bit tight so they will not come off without pulling and twisting the cap.  The caps have channels to add water and/or honey for feeding those freshly hatched virgins.  The tube has a flat end to hold a JZ BZ queen cap and the other end is just open.  You can use these to hold your queen cells in these cages when they are getting close to emerging…or you suspect they might emerge early.  Then there is no way they can escape and if you add the water and honey to the bottom cap they can feed.  For capturing queens, you can open one end and direct the queen into the cage and cap the end.

The tube is approximately 2 3/4″ long and about 7/8″ in diameter.  With the caps on the tube is slightly over 3″ long.

The current colors are white, yellow and orange and the caps are the same.  We are now offering white body with green caps as well.  These roll cages are sold in 10, 20, and 50 packs, however, if you would like a larger pack please message us to and we can create an invoice separately.  We can do volume discounts for bulk orders but keep in mind that we have limited capacity so please be patient while we print your orders.

These items are 3d printed with PETG in various colors.  Please contact us if you are concerned about when a large order will be shipped prior to ordering.  Designed and made by beekeepers for beekeepers!

Soon to come, a rack to hold these roll cages in an incubator…

The story: I created this design simply because I was disgusted paying $1 each for the other types of roll cages and they did not have caps on both ends.  So we made up a few of them and gave them to various people to see if they like it and it was a big hit.