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Commercial Brood BoxCommercial hive brood box. Flat packed for home assembly. Frame runners available in drop down menu above. The brood box is the most integral piece of equipment for a successful beehive . It contains the queen bee and all of her eggs. The brood box is located at the bottom of the hive, underneath the supers and separated by a screen.
COMMERCIAL HIVES
Commercial Hive - Flat PackNO FRAMES OR FOUNDATION INCLUDED 1 x Varroa floor (assembled) 1 x Super (flat pack) (extra super available in drop down menu above) 1 x Brood (flat pack) 1 x Roof (assembled) 1 x Plastic queen excluder 1 x Crownboard (assembled)
COMMERCIAL HIVES
Commercial Super - Flat PackCommercial Super - Flat Pack. Looking for a hive super box that's perfect for your buzzing buddies? Our Commercial Super is just the ticket! This flat-packed beauty is designed for easy home assembly, so you can get your hive up and running in no time. With frame runners available in the drop-down menu, you can customize your setup to suit your needs.
NATIONAL HIVES
Crownboard - 2 slotCrownboard to fit national and commercial hive with slots for porter bee escapes. Crownboards cover the hive under the roof and are typically ply with one or two holes designed for feeding and/or Porter bee escapes.
COMMERCIAL HIVES
Dummy Board - Commercial - single, double, tripleDummy board for commercial hive Choose size from drop down menu. Dummy boards are for closing gaps in the brood when the frames do not fit exactly, preventing heat loss and the build up of brace comb . Removing the boards first will mean you have more space to inspect the rest of your frames.
NATIONAL HIVES
Eke Crownboard - 100mm, National or CommercialPerspex crownboard with bee space on one side & 100mm eke on the other side. Can be used for feeding & Apiguard application. How to use an eke They can be placed above the brood nest to house baggy feeders. ... Anything that requires extra space can be enclosed by an eke including pollen patties, sugar cakes, grease patties, or mite treatments. You can put deep frames in a medium box or medium frames in a shallow box if you put an eke under it. Our rapid top feeder fits perfectly in this eke. Feeder here
NATIONAL HIVES
Entrance BlockEntrance block for national & commercial varroa floors. Obviously, the main purpose of the hive entrance is to provide bees with an easy way to get in and out of their hive. However, the utility of these entrances goes far beyond that. The entrance allows the colony to actively thermo-regulate conditions inside the hive. By creating a significant flow of air, into and out of the hive by flapping their wings, bees can manipulate ventilation from an entrance in summer A mechanism to reduce moisture. The flow of air can help reduce the build-up of moisture within the hive, which can be a serious threat to the colony in the passive environment of the hive during winter. As a staging point for the transfer of resources from forager bees to house bees . From nectar to propolis and water these are all essential resources for the colony. A well-defined area for guard bees to effectively defend. The colony needs the ability to repel threats such as robber bees (other colonies from your own b...
NATIONAL HIVES
Hive StandDouble hive stand suitable for national and commercial hives. National and commercial frames both hang perfectly on the hive stand for additional space.
NATIONAL HIVES
Mesh For Hive FloorHeavy duty mesh sheets approx. 460x460mm. Construct your own Bee hive open mesh floor to combat Varroa, improve wintering, due to lack of water and vapour and increase ventilation. .
NATIONAL HIVES
National Hive FloorFully assembled bottom board with removable varroa tray to fit National or Commercial hive
NATIONAL HIVES
Queen ExcluderQueen excluder to fit national or commercial hives. The intent of the queen excluder is to limit the queen's access to the honey supers . If the queen lays eggs in the honey supers and a brood develops in them it is difficult to harvest clean honey. It makes fall management more difficult. Queen excluders are removed in the autumn; otherwise, the queen would not be able to move with the winter cluster and would die from exposure. A replacement queen can be difficult to introduce because the bees will not be accustomed to the new queen's pheromones. New queens can be killed by the hive. Therefore, the death of a queen in winter is dangerous for a hive and can be expensive for a beekeeper. Queen excluders are used with some queen breeding methods, especially as a way to allow queen cells to be built in the same hive with an existing queen, or as a way to house multiple queens in the same hive
NATIONAL HIVES
Queen Excluder - National or CommercialPlastic queen excluder to suit commercial and national hives. Please not that colour may differ from picture. The intent of the queen excluder is to limit the queen's access to the honey supers. If the queen lays eggs in the honey supers and a brood develops in them it is difficult to harvest clean honey. It makes fall management more difficult. Queen excluders are removed in the autumn; otherwise, the queen would not be able to move with the winter cluster and would die from exposure. A replacement queen can be difficult to introduce because the bees will not be accustomed to the new queen's pheremones. New queens can be killed by the hive. Therefore, the death of a queen in winter is dangerous for a hive and can be expensive for a beekeeper.
NATIONAL HIVES
Queen Excluder - Steel WireSteel queen excluder 430x430mm Will work on national/commercial hives but fitting of a timber rim is advised. 460x460mm also available, please select from drop down menu.
