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The Nuc & Mate Hive is designed to ease beekeeping and make it more efficient. This nucleus hive can be used to expand your beekeeping operation, to sell bees or as an economical mating hive.
The Nuc & Mate Hive is made of food grade, extra hardened, expanded polystyrene (EPS) with a density over 100 kg/m3. In proper use, the Nuc & Mate Hive will last for several decades.
The bottom board, hive body and top are provided with 6 mm high notch system which locks the parts well into each other. During the design of the Nuc & Mate Hive special attention has been paid to good ventilation, transport and stacking properties.
The Nuc & Mate Hive has a screen bottom board with two 18 mm high entrances on opposite sides. In the middle of the bottom board there is a 7 mm wide groove for the divider board if the hive is used for two separate mating units. The mesh covering the ventilation hole in the bottom board should be secured with two screws. The groove holding the dividing board continues in the end walls as well as in the inside of the hive top. For frame sizes with short top bars (for example DNM) the divider groove can also be provided parallel to the entrance. The bottom board has scalloped edges that allow a good ventilation and grip.
With the Nuc & Mate Hive two queens can be mated within the same box by dividing this six frame hive into two three frame mating units. To be used as a mating hive each three frame compartment should be equipped with a frame with emerging brood, one frame containing food (or a frame feeder) and one foundation frame together with a ripe queen cell or hatched queen. When the queen is laying, the unit can be reused for mating another queen. In fall the divider is removed and the six frame colony is overwintered with a young queen. Until the next season these nuclei will evolve into valuable honey producing hives.
During transport the hive top is secured with a strap. In the apiary the hive tops are kept in place with a stone or brick weighing about 2 kg. In hot climates or during transport the top can be turned upside down to form a tunnel above the frames ensuring additional ventilation while a screen placed on top of the hive prevents the bees from escaping.
The Nuc & Mate Hive is produced to suit the following frame sizes: Dadant Blatt, ½ Dadant, Dadant USA, Langstroth USA, Langstroth Russia, ¾ Langstroth, Zander, DNM, Portuguese Frame , Belgian Frame, English Standard, Dutch Frame, Norwegian Frame and Swedish Frame.
