Hive Care
Okalix Natural Hive Supplement Strips
Hive strips — glycerine, organic acids and vegetable oil on cellulose paper
Unit price: 13.90 SEK/st
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- Plant and mineral based — no animal ingredients
- No residue in honey or comb
- Usable all season, every season
- Safe to use during the honey flow
Why a strip, and not a spray
A spray works while you are standing there. A strip goes on working for a fortnight after you have gone — which matters most in the half of the year when you are barely opening hives at all.
Cellulose paper carrying glycerine, organic acids and vegetable oil. It releases slowly, stays active for roughly seven to fifteen days, and then it is spent: take it out and put a fresh one in.
September to April. The manufacturer’s recommended window, and the half of the year a hive is mostly left alone — a strip does not need you to come back for its sake. This is the concentrated one of the two strips, and the season goes with the strength.
One strip per five frames, ten to a pack. Hang it between the frames or lay it on top of them — both work. Worth doing the sum before you order: a ten-frame box takes two at a time, so a pack is five changes for one box, or one change across five.
Working unattended. Reset is what you spray while the hive is open. A strip is what carries on after the lid is back down.
40 % glycerine, 50 % organic acids (oxalic and formic acid) and 10 % vegetable oil, on cellulose paper — substances that occur in nature, with no synthetically produced molecules. No residue in honey or comb. Keep out of reach of children. This is not a medicine and is not intended to prevent, treat or cure disease.
It is not a veterinary medicine and does not stand in for one. If a colony needs treating, that is a different kind of product with an authorisation behind it — your local beekeeping association, or Jordbruksverket, is the place to start.
The gentler strip, without a season, for the rest of the year: Ticks – Natural Hive Aromatic Strips.
And the spray, for while you are in there: Reset – Natural Hive Hygiene.
Product Description
Cellulose paper strips impregnated with glycerine, organic acids and vegetable oil, released slowly inside the hive. Made from naturally occurring substances, with no synthetically produced molecules. No residue in honey or comb.
Ingredients: 40 % glycerine, 50 % organic acids (oxalic and formic acid), 10 % vegetable oil. Carrier: cellulose paper.
How beekeepers use it
Hung between the frames or laid on top of them — one strip for every five frames in the box. A strip stays active for roughly 7 to 15 days; when it is spent, take it out and put a fresh one in. The manufacturer recommends using them between September and April, to support air hygiene inside the hive through the colder half of the year.
Store in the original packaging at 5–20 °C, out of direct sunlight and out of reach of children.
End of product description.
Handling
Contains organic acids – oxalic and formic acid (50 %). Avoid contact with bare skin and keep the product away from the eyes. Wear protective gloves and safety glasses when handling the product.
Storage and shelf life
- Keep out of reach of children.
- Store in the original packaging at 5–20 °C, protected from direct sunlight.
- Shelf life 24 months from the date of manufacture. The date is printed on the packaging.
Manufacturing and control
Manufacturer: Bolworm Bolgübsan, Bolu, Turkey
Approval number: α TR-1400083
Health certificate: 26-17-000450 — latest consignment
Approved feed establishment with the Turkish Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry since 18 Feb 2021, under Law No. 5996 on Veterinary Services, Plant Health, Food and Feed. A new health certificate is issued by the General Directorate of Food and Control for every consignment — without it the goods may not leave the country.
Composition
- Glycerine
- 40 %
- Organic acids
- 50 % — oxalic and formic acid
- Vegetable oil and water
- 10 %
From the manufacturer’s certificate of analysis RS180102 (a type certificate for the product, not batch-specific).
- Exporter
- Gost Sağlık Arı ve Arıcılık Ürünleri, Çanakkale
- Official supervision
- The manufacturer is under regular inspection by the Ministry of Agriculture’s food inspectors. Export is permitted only if the consignment passes the check — our consignment list, naming every product and its lot number, is stamped as checked and signed by the inspector.
- Manufacturing
- The manufacturer declares that the products are made in accordance with current Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) and applicable legislation.
- Import and Swedish supervision
- PMA Nordic AB is a registered feed business operator with the Swedish Board of Agriculture (SE67569098) and is therefore subject to Swedish feed control. The goods are customs-cleared into the EU with us as declarant.
- Origin
- Turkey
- In our own apiary
- We use the range in our own hives in Svinninge.
Printable product sheet
One A4, double-sided — Swedish on the front, English on the back. What it is, how to use it, dosage, storage and the numbers behind the product. Made to live in the box in the apiary, where you rarely have a signal.
How we think about supplements
No treatment — preparation. A supplement for bees is roughly what a multivitamin from the grocery shop is for us, not something you collect at the pharmacy. It fills gaps in the diet, no more and no less.
Think of the colony as a skilled cook. We set out flour, eggs and oil — then it cooks its own meal. One day that is an omelette for the protein, another day something that mostly gives energy. We do not choose the recipe; we make sure the ingredients are there. It shows in how they take: one hive finishes a tablet in a fortnight, another needs a month or more. Bees have managed this for millions of years.
And that is how the build-up holds together. The gut flora is where nutrition is absorbed; support it and the bees get more out of the same feed. The queen lays according to what the colony can feed — when the nutrition is inside, so is the signal.
A colony wants to grow. That is biology: bees build up and swarm when they can, and the limit is set by forage and flow, not by willingness. In Turkey beekeepers often split one hive into three or four in a season. In Svinninge one is hard work — the season is shorter and the flow smaller. That is the gap a supplement exists to fill.
Who developed the range
We import and sell the Dr. Gost range, and it is worth saying where it comes from, because provenance is a fact rather than a claim.
The range was developed and tested by Dr. Soner Güner, who holds a doctorate in beekeeping and has more than twenty years of research behind him. He is the author of Yeni Nesil Doğal Arıcılık — "New-Generation Natural Beekeeping" — described by its Turkish bookseller as the first written work in the country on the subject, and he runs a YouTube channel and an Instagram account of some eighteen thousand followers, both about bees and natural products. This is a range formulated by someone whose profession is the study of bees, not a white-label bought in and relabelled.
He works inside a tradition rather than alone. Turkey is the world’s second-largest honey producer by volume and third by number of hives — and the largest in Europe by a wide margin — on its own more than a third of the entire EU’s honey output, with some four times as many hives per inhabitant as the EU average. Beekeeping is taught there as a university degree with a state research institute behind it, and Anatolia holds five native subspecies of Apis mellifera.
The manufacturer’s own product information states that its active ingredients derive from university studies. Which university, and which studies, is something we have asked our supplier to document. Until that paperwork is in our hands, we report that sentence as theirs rather than as ours.
This is not a medicine. The product is not intended to prevent, treat or cure disease.
Common questions
- Does it contain anything of animal origin?
- The manufacturer declares this product to be entirely of plant and mineral origin, containing no ingredients of animal origin — no honey, milk, meat, egg, animal protein or animal fat.
- Does it leave any residue in the honey?
- No. The products leave no residue in honey or comb, so a colony that gets them still produces honey you can harvest and sell normally.
- Can I use it during the honey flow?
- Yes. Because nothing carries over into the honey, they can be used during the flow rather than only in the gaps between harvests.
- How often can it be used?
- They can be used continuously through the season and repeated season after season — there is no withdrawal period to plan around and no rotation requirement.
- How long does it keep, and how should it be stored?
- Each pack carries a recommended use-by date, generally 24 months from manufacture. Keep it in its original packaging between 5 and 20 °C, out of direct sunlight. The smell and any settling may change over time — that belongs to a naturally produced, fermented product.
- Can I return an opened product?
- No. For health and hygiene reasons, a product whose own vented plastic cap or inner packet has been opened cannot be returned (EU Consumer Rights Directive art. 16). The outer shipping box does not count — you may open the parcel and look at the goods. Products with their own seal intact can be returned within 14 days.
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- Jordbruksverket-registeredFeed business operator SE67569098
- Biodlarna StockholmStockholm Beekeepers Association
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