Goal. To study the biological potential for the production of the royal jelly by bees in the conditions of supportive and intensive honey harvest. Methods. Laboratory — for the determination of royal jelly mass, zootechnical — for the accounting the number of queen larvae in the bee families, ethological — for the determination of the orientation of bees in the area near the hive hole, and statistical — for biometric processing of experimental data. For the first time in the production of beekeeping products, a comparative analysis of obtaining the royal jelly was made for maintaining an intensive honey harvest. The production of the royal jelly was based on the technological process of artificial growth of the queens, which is interrupted after 72 hours after grafting larvae. Families for the reception of larvae were formed by a method of incomplete desertion. Incomplete desertion of the bee family meant that the bee queen was not completely isolated from a bee family. For that purpose, the bee family was divided in half with a solid diaphragm with the Hahnemann lattice, which isolated the queen bee. For the flight of the bees-collectors of nectar and bee pollen, only the entrance in the section with the queen bee was left open. In the research process, they applied the method of the use of bee families for producing the royal jelly simultaneously with the collection of nectar and pollen by bees in conditions of relatively small supportive and intensive honey harvest. Results. The technological method of formation and use of families-growers during the obtaining the royal jelly, which significantly reduced labor costs and funds for its production has been developed and tested. Conclusions. In the conditions of supporting honey harvest, the positive effect of bringing nectar to the reception of larvae in the nests of families was revealed. In various types of honey harvest (maintenance and intensive) for the production of royal jelly using the method of incomplete desertion, it is possible to use bee families of Ukrainian and Carpathian breeds. It was a slight advantage of the bee families of the Ukrainian steppe breed over the bee families of the Carpathian breed for the production of royal jelly.