mann lake or kelly

[swarmtrap]

the ones i got are the hairclip style and made from pretty thin metal and the hinge pin already came ourt of one of them

[paus]

I have HAD several of the hard plastic  queen catchers, they all broke,

VERY fragile. I have been using steel stamped catchers they work ok but I have a little concern about queen injury with those metal ones. I have never seen a soft plastic catcher where are those available, I would like to try those.

[sc-bee]

I parted $$$ for the Mann Lake one hand queen catcher... have not used it yet..

[jimineycricket]

Mann Lake also has a stainless steel queen catcher:
https://www.mannlakeltd.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=Queen+Catcher

[BeeMaster2]

I parted $$$ for the Mann Lake one hand queen catcher... have not used it yet..

I have had the one handed queen catcher for a couple of years now. It is the only thing I use to mark my queens.
Easy to use and pretty safe.
Jim

[GSF]

The steel catcher I had was a death trap to queens. I had the one handed catcher as well but I never mastered it. Then a dang rat ate the padding out.., Last fall I decided to quit marking my queens. I was going to mark them so when they swarmed next spring I'd know if I had a laying queen already. I went in five hives and quit. Two of the five queens flew off. I found one later in front of the hive covered with bees so I put her back in the hive. That hive is now a laying worker hive.