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7 Frame NUC Feeder (Pair)

Vendor: Apimaye-USA
Regular price: $35.00
Sale price: $35.00
Unit price: per

The same top feeder pair that comes with our Apimaye 7 Frame NUC bee hive set. Bundled to save on shipping
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A pair of Apimaye top half feeders for 7 frame boxes. When inspecting your hive, you can simply put one of your feeder on top of the other, do your inspection, put it back, and inspect the other side.
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Total Capacity per Each: 0.26 Gallons/1 Liter
Total Capacity per Pair: 0.52 Gallons/2 Liters

Product Dimensions per Each: 500x133x47 mm/19.69x5.24x1.85 inches
Product Dimensions per Pair: 500x266x47 mm/19.69x10.47x1.85 inches

Feeders are good , easy to work with .

Brilliant feeder

These feeders are brilliantly designed. I can walk out into the bee yard and feed 6 hives sugar water without even a veil. The bees don’t even know I’m there and I can get in and out in a few minutes without being noticed.

Useful for 8 Frame Wooden Hives too!

If you have a few old 8 frame wooden hives sitting around like me, you can use a 10 frame half feeder and the 7 frame nuc half feeder together to make a feeder set that will fit on top of a wooden 8 frame hive.

I also bought a few extra of these to fill with fondant for winter feeding and to safe the fondant filled feeders for next year when the bees haven't really touched it.

A negative of this style feeder that is amplified a little bit more with the center access, is that you really have to have the hive level for the bees to be able to utilize all of the syrup added. But I think this is vastly outweighed by the ability to feed the bees without opening the hive-- I even like to do this at night with a red LED light when I don't have to worry about bees flying around while I am adding syrup.

There is always a trade off, but leveling the hives for me isn't too big of an issue-- I just designed and built my own stands that have leveling legs so with a few turns of a wrench I can get them back into level even as they have settled with time-- hopefully the ground that I disturbed and leveled off for my hives will be done settling one day.

It’s good-ish

It does the job. It can hold a fair amount of sugar water, bees can get in and out. But in the end it’s just ok. I haven’t found it much better than any feeder I have used in a wood hive.

I own a fair amount of Apimaye hives. I have 10 frame hives from Apimaye and the queen defender. I sprung for the duel feeder for the 10 frames. It’s well worth it. It’s all round the best feeder I have ever used. Apimaye should drop the old design and go with something based off the duel feeder. Biggest and most aggravating feature with the standard feeder is ants. The gaps around the bee entrance area and lid are too big and ants get in the feeder by the hundreds. Like nightmare levels of ants. The bees don’t seem bothered but I hate trying to clear 500-1000 carpenter ants at inspections. It slows me down and they BITE! I also believe the ants had a hand in wiping out a small swarm I caught and housed that collapsed. I just want to attract the least amount of uninvited visitors I can. Making the gaps small, like on the duel feeder, will resolve this issue.

The hive with the standard feeder is flanked by 2 hives with the duel and the ants have to walk past the duel feeder hives, as they are all on 1 long stand. They make the trip for the easy feed. Every beekeeper wants to attract and feed as few pests as possible.

I don’t have this issue with the duel feeder. The seams are tight and pests are hard pressed to get to your bee feed. They have a solid base with this design. With a few tweaks they could apply this design to all models of hives. It’s undoubtedly better.

On the positive, I do like the split aspect of the feeder allowing you to address a divided hive individually. Great and innovative idea.

7 frame feeder design could be better...

I am not in favor of having the bees access located in the center of the feeder. In most hives, the feed tends to pool towards one end, making it out of reach from the center so that it never gets completely consumed. A better design is for access from both ends, as it is with the 10 frame feeders.

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