Nicot Queen Rearing System (Nicot, France)

The Nicot system is currently considered one of the highest-quality and most convenient methods for rearing queen bees. Thousands of beekeepers around the world have recognised the French quality of Nicot and made it the most widely used queen rearing system in the world. Every beekeeper aims to have their own queen rearing system for their own needs.  Thanks to it, any beekeeper, regardless of experience, can productively rear and introduce queen bees.

Features of the Nicot system

The Nicot system consists of the main board (cassette), a queen excluder grid, "Bigoudi" cages for protecting queen cells, and cell cups. Nicot helps rear queen bees efficiently in large numbers without using tools for transferring larvae.

When using it, the beekeeper first needs to:

• install the Nicot cassette on the frame; its rear wall contains small openings for cell cups. After the cassette with cell cups is placed in the hive, the bees clean and polish the fitted cell cups.
• introduce the queen bee into the cassette and prepare a colony that will rear the queen bees.
• After a certain period following the transfer of larvae to the prepared queenless colony, it is necessary to check how the bees have accepted the larvae, and also to clean the grafting frame of poor-quality queen cells.
• One of the beekeeper’s final tasks is to select mature queen cells or queen bees and monitor how the bees accept them after introduction into a new colony, as well as how the queen subsequently mates and lays eggs.

The Nicot system is convenient and practical, so beekeepers can use it without any difficulty. The main advantages of the system are that it allows the beekeeper to move larvae quickly without touching them. This protects them from damage. In addition, the Nicot system ensures the timely emergence of young queen bees according to schedule.

Where to buy the Nicot system at a good price?

The Nicot system can be purchased either as a ready-to-use complete kit or separately as individual parts, allowing you to create a set to suit your own needs. All components are available separately, including strips with cell cups and holders for them, which are used for collecting royal jelly. This allows the beekeeper to choose any Nicot system kit and additionally purchase royal jelly strips from the components, creating a complete "Royal Jelly" kit.