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A Complete Colony Management System

Swarm Rearing Hive

Queen Breeding Hive

Colony Management System

TECHNICAL DETAILS

THERMO HOUSING

PROPERTIES

Louvred Filters

On two sides enable air circulation without admitting rain

Hive Top Cover

Cover and side walls provides thermal insulation. Durable, noiseless and lends Inner Cover Type Top Feeder itself to stacking.

Inner Cover Type Top Feeder

Enables solid and liquid feeding + balance the hive temperature

Insulated Brood Box and Supers

All-round double layer with a special filling thermal insulation keeps the colony warm in the winter and cool in the summer. Wintering without losses.

Flight Holes

Flight Holes on Deep Supers offer an extra hive entrance during the high nectar flow. Also can be used for swarm preventing method.

Queen Excluder

Built in spacers to prevent excluder from sticking on the frames. Bees move comfortably.

Lock and Latch Handles

Fix supers together also use as a carrying handle

Frame Spacers

Upper and lower castellated support for the frames can be reversed if not required. No need for pre-transport fixing operations.

Hive Entrance

The entrance is sheltered from the wind and rain. Flip over the entrance reducer for summer and winter entrance.

IPM Bottom Board

Equipped standard with ventilation filters, varroa excluder and inspection tray

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ADVANTAGES

IPM Bottom Board

Consists of four ventilation filters , bottom drawer and an excluder. This ensures your bees always have fresh air and allows debris and mites to fall out of the hive.The drawer is located under the excluder and serves to facilitate control of varroa and cleaning of the bottom board.

Pollen Trap

Fits over the flight board. The holes in the pollen rake are designed to suit bee physiology according to world standard sizes and do not harm the bees. There is a drone exit hole between the rake and the hive.

The ventilated drawer prevents collected pollen from growing humid.

Bee Entryway Separator

Both sides of the seperator can be used by reversing. The three-notched side is used when wintering as an entrance reducer. The opposite side with larger number of notches is for the bees to work and defend their hive easily.

Lock-latch Handles

Used to fasten together the bottom board,the brood chamber, the super and the top cover. As the excluder, when inserted, increases the distance in between, a second stage has been added for the latch to lock safely. The handles allow easy handling of the hive.

Frame Spacers and Immobilization

Upper and Lower Fixing Elements By inserting each frame into a slot, potential damages during transport will be prevented, eliminating also the need for pre-transport fixing operations. If not needed can be reversed to a flat side without grooves. The elements comes standard in the brood chamber and supers of Defender Series

Division and Uniting Board

Used for shrinking the hive interior during wintering, the division board has round ducts in its design which can be used in merging as well as uniting colonies.

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2 Story Set Includes All This

IPM Bottom Board

Inspection Tray

Varroa Excluder

Handy Frames (20 unit)

Frame Spacers (1 unit)

Feeder Cover

Inner Cover Type Feeder (4 lt)

Hive Top Cover

Deep Super (1 unit)

Queen Excluder (1 unit)

Deep Brood Box

Fly Board Sun Shield

Deep Brood Box

Hive Bodies and Supers

Langstroth Hive Bodies and Supers

Deep Super

Medium Super (LD-16)

Dadant Hive Bodies and Supers

Deep Super

Medium Super (LD-16)

A complete colony management system

Thermo Swarm Rearing and Queen Breeding Hives are an important part of apiary management and should be used imaginatively. An apiary should be a fairly fluid thing with possibly a fairly stable number of honey producing colonies, and a varying number of support colonies, mainly nuclei that service them. Numbers can be reduced by selling or uniting.

Queen Breeding Hive

Swarm Rearing Hive

Includes All This:

• Hive Top Cover

• 2 Inner Cover Type Half Feeders

• 1 Thermo Deep Brood Box

• 16 Queen Frames

• 8 Frame Adapters

• Frame spacers & stoppers

• 2 Lock and Latch Handles

• 2 Lock and Latches

• 2 Division & uniting board (full size)

• 2 Reversible bee entrance

• 2 Mating gates

• 1 Fly Board sun shield

• Queen bee condition indicators

• IPM Bottom Board

Thermo Swarm Rearing Nucleus

with 2 Compartments allows you to winter two relatively weak colonies together in one single hive, smoothly unite a queenless colony with a queenright colony, rear queens without having to perform any extra work on the frames, prevent bee losses by means of the sunshade and the colour sockets intended to keep the bees from mistaking their colony for another, control varroa through the varroa drawer, and use this Nucleus also as a Thermo Production Hive.

Queen Breeding Hive

Includes All This:

• Hive Top Cover

• 4 Inner Cover Type Queen Feeder

• 1 Thermo Deep Brood Box

• 16 Queen Frames

• 8 Frame Adapters

• Frame spacers & stoppers

• 2 Lock and Latch Handles

• 2 Lock and Latches

• 2 Division & uniting board (full size)

• 2 Division & uniting board (half size)

• 4 Mating gates

• 2 Reversible bee entrance

• 2 Fly Board sun shields

• Queen bee condition indicators

• IPM Bottom Board

Queen Breeding Nucleus with 4 Compartments allows, by its very design, to simultaneously rear and feed four independent colonies in any region or climate. The living space available per colony not only enhances queen quality and enables her to lead a larger colony population, but also serves to increase productivity. With 4 Compartments was designed to lend itself to be converted into a Thermo Swarm Rearing Nucleus with 2 Compartments or a Thermo Production Hive, by means of accessories, if needed.

ADVANTAGES

Queen Frame

Half the size of a normal frame, it is used for

rearing queens. Queen frames can also be

converted into a normal frame, if so desired, by linking them together via a special socket to obtain the size of a standard honey frame.

Queen Bee Status Indicator

Provide convenience to the beekeeper in checking the condition of the queen(s) if any in the hive without having to open the top cover thereby saving time. No more stones on the hives!

Bee Space

System allows queen bee breeding in any region and under any climatic condition.

Adequate working space provided in each

compartment for worker bees and queen bees helps avoid colony migration and losses.

Mating Gate

There is a queen entrance towards the top of the brood box; this reduces the production of castes as virgin queens leave by the highest exit and if she leaves, it is with a very small retinue.

Flight Board

Located on two sides of the hive body for queens, each flight board has two color sockets on it for bees to identify their own colony. The boards provide independent entry & exit for two or four colonies, and they can be easily closed and locked during transporting queens.

Division and Uniting Board Half Size

Used in dividing the Queen Hive compartment in to two smaller compartments, it has a uniting element which is opened to accustom the colonies to one another when uniting the colonies afterwards the board is removed from the hive.

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