3rd year beekeeper, I have ran with Apimaye from day one. My Boyfriend is more practical than I am so we “Tried” Wood Langstroth hardware when our hives grew to larger numbers. We lost two hives to the winter weather and two weeks ago, we had our first bear attack. Our Apimaye hives protected our hives in the winter, and protected our hives from our first black bear attack, twice in one weekend. The wood hives did neither. I had no expectation that I would ever need to defend my hives from anything bigger than raccoons, but I can tell you this, every hive I own is in a Apimaye hives now. Maybe if our bear had been a Grizzle, or he brought some friends along, We may have lost our Apimaye protected bee colonies.
I can tell you without any reservation, if you run 10 hives or less 100 yards from your back door in Mid Missouri, you will never regret paying for Apimaye hives.
The white medium supers arrived quickly and in good shape. They are more expensive that wooden boxes, but my bees do so much better in our hot Texas summers.
The Apimaye hive is the best thing since the Langstroth Hive was developed. It's great quality and I haven't had one bee drown in the feeders. I have been extremely happy with the convenience of having everything in one set up with the ability to move the hives if needed. I have not had to worry about storms blowing off lids ect. There is a lot to say! My only wish is that they would make an option to run all medium frames for us smaller women who really just want to use all medium boxes. It means I would buy more boxes and frames :).
