02-28-2007, 03:35 PM
All the parts for the beehive - the brood box where all the bees keep their comb with eggs and the supers where they make the honey for you to take will have to be brought in from the mainland since - as far as I know - there isn't anyone selling beekeeping equipment on island. You can not bring in used bee equipment since we don't have those mites so they don't want to chance bringing in infected equipment. It isn't very expensive, so new stuff would be better anyway. Dadant has a nice webpage and they are one of the bigger equipment suppliers. http://www.dadant.com/ If you had a brood box with a couple of supers on top of it, you'd be able to catch a swarm to put in it.
Kurt Wilson