Welcome to NY Bee Wellness, your source for maintaining healthy honey bee colonies

an educational nonprofit program to teach beekeepers honey bee disease recognition & to promote honey bee health

Supply Resource List

Listed below are some of the tools used in the NY Bee Wellness workshops. If you or your group would like to teach your own workshops, I hope this list is helpful.

Home Science Tools, homesciencetools.com
Standard, inexpensive lab supplies for school use; 5.95 S/H for almost any size order
CE-WASHBTL Wash bottle, 250 ml
CE-MORTAR Mortar and pestle, 80 ml
CE-DROPPER Pipet (medicine dropper)
CE-TTBSB30 Giant Test Tubes (Baby Soda Bottles), pack of 30
CE-CORPK09 Corks, No. 9, 10 pack
GS-GLOVNLG Gloves, nitrile, size large, 50 pairs
DE-SCHAND4 Scalpel handle, #4, stainless
DE-SC22BLD Scalpel blades, #22, 10 pack
DE-SCASAFE Safety Scalpel Blade Remover Box
BE-INSPSS0 Insect pins, size 0, stainless steel
DE-FORCEP Forceps, stainless steel
BE-PETRI20 Petri dishes, plastic, 20/pk
DE-SCISIRS Scissors, iris, fine sharp tip
DE-FORCUR Forceps, curved tip

New Neubauer Hemacytometer Blood Cell Counting Chamber ; 21.99; Free S/H on Ebay
The cell counting grid is very faint, so the microscope needs to be turned down.
Typical, quality hemocytometers can range from 150.00-285.00 online.

VITA American & European Foulbrood Diagnostic Kits ( M00133, M00134) are available at Dadant; Quantity discounts are available; these kits are reliable; Instructions on use of kits (link)

Dollar stores are good for buckets, measuring cups & spoons

A Field Guide to Honey Bees and Their Maladies (AGRS-116), is available online in PDF; copies available for 12.00 (no quantity discount available) plus S/H, from:
Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences, Publication Distribution Center
814-865-6713

Resources


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    Home Science Tools

    Standard, inexpensive lab supplies for school use; 5.95 S/H for almost any size order

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    AFB Diagnostic Test Kit

    The Vita American foulbrood (AFB) Diagnostic Test Kit enables beekeepers and bee inspectors to test for AFB in honeybee larvae and to obtain the results immediately and easily in the apiary.

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    Field Guide - Penn State

    An excellent PDF version of the guide. All students will receive this book at the workshop. Please read thoroughly.
    Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences, Publication Distribution Center 814-865-6713