Ultimate ApiMaye NUCSERIES have all the features of a standard 10 frame Langstroth ApiMaye hive except with a reduced width. Apart from the typical 5 frame nucleus hives ApiMaye Nucs offer various layouts of 2-7 frames for building a nuclei colony including a queen, workers, brood in all stages, and honey stores if needed. Enables bees to control the temperature and humidity of the colony, which is vital for brood rearing. ApiMaye NUCSERIES nucleus hives consist of 2 variations; ERGONUC with isolated thermo body and WOODEENUC with wooden body. Apart from WOODEENUC models wooden body structure, ERGONUC by its unique design and insulated body intended for overwintering, provides a colony capable of surviving winter possessing a large enough winter cluster to survive winter in harsher climates.

ApiMaye NUCSERIES nucleus hives are equipped with IPM Bottom Board with inspection tray, Feeders, Mating Gates and Dividing Uniting board that can be used to stop overcrowding in a larger, healthy colony by splitting some of the population off to a new colony and can also be used to care for spare queens. A nucleus colony can be combined with the larger colony to re-queen it with a much smaller break in brood rearing. Beekeepers can combine nucs together in the fall to produce a single, strong colony OR nuc colony can also grow into a full-sized colony, given proper time, favorable weather, and appropriate resources.