Ergo Insulated Single Brood Box Beehive Set
Our Single Brood Box Beehive set is the base for all the Ergo PLUS hives we offer at Apimaye. All our 10 frame hives are shipped as single box hive (this hive). This means they have all the features, including the insulation, screen bottom board with pollen trap, queen excluder, top feeders, and 1 division board.
Ideal For:
New beekeepers who start beekeeping by buying package bees or nucs (Short for nucleus colonies). Bees will build the combs and fill it up with honey and brood in about 2-3 weeks. Keep in mind that it is difficult to maintain the colony in a single box hive. The colony will swarm when it get strong and congested. Therefore you need to either divide the colony to prevent swarming or need to buy supers of your choice.
Product Notes
- If you are in a hot area like here in Phoenix, or have high UV index, we'd suggest you get the white hives instead of the tan colored.
- The price will change as the frame and foundation options are chosen.
- If you'd like to know more about our different frame options, you can read our blog post here, and decide which option is the best for you.
- Entrance color choices are purely for aesthetics, but if you have a large apiary with Apimaye hives, we'd suggest you mix and match the entrance colors to make it easier for the bees :)
Standard features from top to bottom:
- Insulated hive top cover
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Top feeder (Half Feeder) (1 gallon capacity) or optional Dual Feeder
- 1 Tan colored insulated deep brood box
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Screened bottom board with pollen trap and drawer
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Multi functional slot
- 1 Division/uniting board for brood
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Queen excluder
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2 Frame spacers
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Side latches and handles
Arrived very fast even with the ice storms that went through parts of thesouth. Arrived undamaged and nothing was missing. Build quality is outstanding. I cant wait to move my colony out of their old wooden ware and into this.
Bar none, this is the best hive you can get. Expensive, yes, but when you consider all the included features and how well the bees do in this hive, it's a bargain!
I have one hive already and it is so much easier to feed and check on than the others, so I wanted to get another one this time with the large super for more room, and maybe split into two nucs,
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This is my forth Apimaye Ergo hive. With the three others I have the overwintered bees are out and about way earlier in spring than my woodenware insulated hives. The Apimayes rock in Northern Utah for me.
