Spicer Bees

Category: Equipment Also called: Spicer Bees (Whitefield, Maine); Spicer Bees Shop; Spicer Bees bee store; spicerbees.com Last checked: 2026-10-09

What it is

Spicer Bees is a first-party beekeeping supply store in Whitefield, Maine (“just east of Augusta”), with an official WooCommerce shop at spicerbees.com. Its home page calls it “a full service beekeeping supplier” that carries “everything from spring bee packages and NUCS, to queens, medicines, protective equipment, and the jars in which to put all your honey,” and its logo reads “Maine Beekeepers’ one stop shop!” The online catalog lists 8- and 10-frame Langstroth woodenware (deep hive bodies, medium and shallow supers, outer and inner covers, solid and screened bottom boards, frames, beeswax and plastic foundation, nuc boxes), hive tools, smokers, feeders, mite treatments, protective clothing, honey-harvest tools and honey jars, plus seasonal bee packages, nucs and queens. It also runs a demonstration bee yard with free “Open Hive Saturdays” and a paid spring Beginner Bee School. This listing is for the beekeeping-supply store with an official cart and citeable on-page prices, not a honey retailer, not a club, and not a course.

Who it’s for

Hobby and backyard beekeepers in central and Midcoast Maine who can pick orders up at the Whitefield store. The shop page says, “All Bee orders are local pick up only in Whitefield. We will let you know when your order is ready for pick up,” and the beeswax foundation page says it is “a local pickup only product as beeswax sheets are very fragile.” The store prints no shipping policy for other supplies. Not a nationwide mail-order warehouse, not a membership club, and not a university program.

Why it’s listed

This is a first-party Equipment operation. It runs an official online catalog with add-to-cart buttons and on-page dollar prices, prints a Whitefield street address, phone and store hours, and shows current activity: a © 2014–2026 footer, 2026 bee-package and nuc listings, and a 2026 Beginner Bee School. It is not a scraped directory card, not Amazon, and not an affiliate storefront.

• Identity / contact (Contact Us page + site header — checked 2026-10-09): Spicer Bees, 463 Mills Road, Whitefield, Maine 04353. Phone 207-549-0441; email [email protected]. Store hours: Monday & Tuesday closed; Wednesday–Friday 4–6 PM; weekends 9 AM–4 PM. The home page adds that after hours (for example, with a swarm) customers can call and staff will “gladly meet you at the store.”
• History (About Us page — checked 2026-10-09): David and Susan Spicer started Spicer Bees in spring 2013, when Rick Cooper (“Maine’s First Master Beekeeper”) retired from his Bowdoinham beekeeping-supply business of 25 years. In 2022 Brian Mason took over, built a new building, and moved the store to its current Mills Road site in Whitefield, about a mile from Route 17.
• Pickup (shop page + product pages — checked 2026-10-09): all bee orders are pickup only in Whitefield; beeswax foundation is pickup only. Bee packages must be collected by close of business on the last pickup day or they are forfeited with no refund, and all package orders are final. A queen found dead at installation or at the day-3 inspection is replaced free if returned in its cage. Pickup dates are tentative and depend on weather in Georgia, where the store collects its packages.
• Sample printed catalog prices (official product pages and the store’s own product feed — checked 2026-10-09): Deep Hive Body $22.00 (8- or 10-frame); Medium Super $18.00 (unassembled finger-jointed pine); Shallow Super $13.00 (10-frame, commercial-grade white pine); Outer Cover $25.00; Inner Cover $13.50; Solid Bottom Board $20.00; Screened Bottom Board $22.00; Frames, 10-pack $18.00 (deep, medium or shallow); Beeswax wired foundation $1.15–$1.55 per sheet; NUC Hive Kit, Unassembled $28.50 (5-frame box with lid and bottom board); Smoker, Stainless Steel Traditional $32.00; Bee Suit Vented $155.00; Jacket w/Veil $59.00; Queen Bees $30–$45. Seasonal bee listings: 3 lb. Italian Bee Package 2026 (April or May pickup) $155–$160 and Spicer NUCS Spring 2026 $250 (5 deep frames with a laying queen, from Maine-overwintered bees, available May–June); both were out of stock on the check date. Confirm the live SKU before treating any figure as fixed.
• Education (Events page + Beginning Beekeepers Classes product page — checked 2026-10-09): free Open Hive Saturdays in the demonstration bee yard on the 2nd and 4th Saturday of the month, 10:30 AM–noon, starting April 25, 2026 (the twelfth season; bring a veil). Beginner Bee School 2026: three afternoons, 1–5 PM — Section 1 on Saturdays March 21, March 28 and April 11, 2026; Section 2 on Sundays March 22, March 29 and April 12, 2026 — $85 per person, maximum 20 participants, taught by Brian Mason and Rick Cooper. An Intermediate Beekeepers Class ($100, for beekeepers with at least two years’ experience) is listed as “TBD.”

Stock, prices, pickup rules, hours and class dates above are what the official pages showed on the check date. They can change. Use the live product page or call the store before treating any figure as fixed.

Official URL

Official site: https://spicerbees.com/

Shop: https://spicerbees.com/shop/

Woodenware: https://spicerbees.com/product-category/woodenware/

Protective Gear: https://spicerbees.com/product-category/protective-gear-beekeeping-supplies/

Beekeeping Supplies: https://spicerbees.com/product-category/beekeeping-supplies/

About Us: https://spicerbees.com/about-spicer-bees/

Contact Us: https://spicerbees.com/contact-spicer-bees/

Events (classes and Open Hive Saturdays): https://spicerbees.com/learn-about-beekeeping/

Deep Hive Body: https://spicerbees.com/product/deep-hive-body-2/

Beeswax wired foundation (pickup only): https://spicerbees.com/product/beeswax-wired-foundation/

3 lb. Italian Bee Package 2026: https://spicerbees.com/product/3-lb-italian-bee-package-2026-may-pickup/

Location

Store address printed on the official Contact Us page (checked 2026-10-09): 463 Mills Road, Whitefield, Maine 04353, between Route 17 and Route 126. Phone 207-549-0441. Closed Monday and Tuesday; open Wednesday–Friday 4–6 PM and weekends 9 AM–4 PM. Confirm before you drive out.

This is a pickup-first supply store identity. Do not treat it as a club meeting hall or a university classroom.

Notes

• Category is Equipment. Spicer Bees is a first-party Maine beekeeping-supply store with an official online cart and citeable woodenware, tool and apparel prices. It is not a Local club and not a Learning pathway, even though it sells a Beginner Bee School: the classes are a store service, not a certificate program. It is the first Maine listing in the directory. It is distinct from the Equipment shops already listed (Dadant, Mann Lake, Betterbee, GloryBee, Foxhound, Acorn Pierco, Rossman, HillCo, Blue Sky Bee Supply, Beeline Woodenware, Beez Needz, Premier Bee Products, Blythewood Bee Company, Western Bee Supplies, BeeBuilt, Harvest Lane Honey, Triple Oak Acres Bee Supply, Vermont Beekeeping Supply).
• Shipping: the site states pickup-only for bee orders and beeswax foundation but prints no shipping policy, shipping rates or return policy for other supplies. Call the store before ordering anything for delivery.
• The home page still carries spring 2026 notices (May package pickup on May 8–9; nucs ready at the end of May) and says “Beekeeping School 2026 – Will be held in March.” The 2026 class sessions have passed; no 2027 class dates were printed on the check date.
• Prices, pickup rules, hours, class details and the Whitefield address are copied from official spicerbees.com pages checked on 2026-10-09 and may change. Some prices were read from the store’s own product feed (/wp-json/wc/store/v1/products, HTTP 200), which matches the product pages. No purchase was made from Beekeeping Plaza.
• First-party logo saved beside this listing as spicer-bees.png (the official logo spicer-bees-logo.png from the site’s home page, unedited 519×192 original).
• Not affiliated with Beekeeping Plaza.
• No Beekeeping Plaza contact, purchase, booking, or publication action was taken.

FAQ

Q: Where is Spicer Bees, and when is it open?
A: The official Contact Us page (checked 2026-10-09) gives 463 Mills Road, Whitefield, Maine 04353, phone 207-549-0441, email [email protected]. The store is closed Monday and Tuesday, open Wednesday–Friday 4–6 PM and weekends 9 AM–4 PM.

Q: Does Spicer Bees ship?
A: The shop page says all bee orders are local pickup only in Whitefield, and beeswax foundation is pickup only because the sheets are fragile. No shipping policy is printed for other supplies, so call before ordering for delivery.

Q: What does basic hive woodenware cost?
A: Official product pages (checked 2026-10-09) list a deep hive body at $22.00, a medium super at $18.00, a shallow super at $13.00, an outer cover at $25.00, an inner cover at $13.50 and a solid bottom board at $20.00; frames are $18.00 per 10-pack. Confirm the live SKU.

Q: Does Spicer Bees offer classes?
A: Yes. The Events page lists free Open Hive Saturdays (2nd and 4th Saturdays, 10:30 AM–noon, from April 25, 2026) and a $85 three-session Beginner Bee School, held in March–April 2026. Spicer Bees is still listed here as Equipment, not a Learning certificate program.

Q: Is Spicer Bees a club or a class?
A: No. It is listed here as Equipment, a first-party supply store with an official shop URL. For clubs, see Local clubs (e.g. Paseo del Norte Beekeepers Association). For structured training, see Learning (e.g. the Frederick County Beekeeping Association’s 2027 Beekeeping Course for Beginners).