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Traditional Growing Apiary Kit, Painted

$339.99 - $365.95
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Description

Get started or expand with your choice of our all-inclusive, Traditional Growing Apiary Kit! Made for beginners and seasoned beekeepers, these starter kits feature everything you need for your colony to brood, produce honey, and expand. Each hive kit comes fully assembled and ready to go, and features everything your hive needs for the season. Simply stack boxes when your honey bees are naturally ready to expand. Entrance reducer and notched inner cover are not painted. Your choice of feeder sold separately. Bees not included.

  • Made in the USA
  • Low VOC paint is used on Painted Kits
  • Painted boxes aid in temperature control
  • No assembly or tools required
  • Built with quality pine
  • Unpainted Kits are perfect for your choice of paint or wax coating
  • Allows for high honey yields
  • Brood frames include black colored foundation
  • Super frames include natural colored foundation

Note: It can take up to 2 seasons for your new colony to completely draw out the comb in the supers.

HK150 Painted, 10 Frame Kit includes:

  • 2 - 9⅝" (24.45 cm) Assembled Hive Bodies; Painted
  • 20 - 9⅛" (23.18 cm) Assembled Frames w/Beeswax Coated Plastic Foundation
  • 2 - 6⅝" (16.83 cm) Assembled Supers; Painted
  • 20 - 6¼" (15.88 cm) Assembled Frames w/Beeswax Coated Plastic Foundation
  • 1 - Painted Assembled Telescoping Cover w/Inner Cover
  • 1 - Assembled Bottom Board w/Reducer; Painted w/ Unpainted Underside

HK550 Painted, 8 Frame Kit includes:

  • 2 - 9⅝" (24.45 cm) Assembled Hive Bodies; Painted
  • 16 - 9⅛" (23.18 cm) Assembled Frames w/Beeswax Coated Plastic Foundation
  • 2 - 6⅝" (16.83 cm) Assembled Supers; Painted
  • 16 - 6¼" (15.88 cm) Assembled Frames w/Beeswax Coated Plastic Foundation
  • 1 - Painted Assembled Telescoping Cover w/Inner Cover
  • 1 - Assembled Bottom Board w/Reducer; Painted w/ Unpainted Underside

What size is right for me?

Did you know the only difference in measurements between 10 frame and 8 frame boxes is the width? 8 frame equipment is narrower than 10 frame, and not always compatible with other 8 frame equipment as dimensions vary slightly by manufacturers. 10 frame equipment offers more space for brood and honey production

Specification

  • 40.30 LBS
  • Frame Type: Wood Frames
  • Box Size: 9 5/8"
  • No Assembly Required
Mann Lake's Traditional Growing Apiary kit has everything you need to start  your own bee hive.

Reviews

  • 4

    Works like it should

    by CYNTHIA BRIGGS on Sep 17, 2024

    The only problem is it comes with the Supers but no Queen Excluder. You also have to buy a screen bottom as an additional Expense. I would have rather had a choice to pay a bit extra and have the screen bottom and the queen Excluder. They could add that as a drop down choice as well as choosing the 10 frame/8frame.

  • 3

    Traditional Growing Apiary Kit

    by Leslie Lantz on May 05, 2022

    Paint job keeps getting worse especially corners. Always plan to repaint the entire kit. Inspect carefully to see if "bad wood"(depressed, wrinkled, soft to touch) is below the paint. Bought these for many years, but keeps getting worse. Please get better again.

  • 4

    Good Start - Needs Queen Excluder Included

    by Hunter on Mar 29, 2022

    Got a swarm of bees caught and in a nuc, so came to buy a complete hive setup for them this year. Bought this, later realized it doesn't include a queen excluder, so I'm back to buy the one piece this kit is missing. Kind of a big oversight. Would be 5/5, but knocked a star off for missing the excluder. Still love MannLake, but y'all need to add an excluder to this package.