Beehive Accessories

Entrances, Hoffmann spacers, ventilation grilles, corner pieces, catches and comb-honey sections. A hundred and twenty small parts, from €0.12.

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Langstroth frame

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129 reviews

Layens frame

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62 reviews

Metal fastener

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18 reviews

Blind beehive entrance

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16 reviews

Bolt

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16 reviews

Wooden Pollen Trap

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20 reviews

Beehive side hinge

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16 reviews

Dadant Super frames (US)

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43 reviews

Beehive cover

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33 reviews

Food-grade silicone

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8 reviews

Solid bottom board 10F

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25 reviews

Poplar strip

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13 reviews

Digit for marker

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18 reviews

Metal frame runner

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22 reviews

PVC crown board

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29 reviews

Hive handle

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17 reviews

Frame wire crimper

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42 reviews

Hoffman Converter Clips

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67 reviews

Beehive back hinge

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6 reviews

Hand awl

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5 reviews

Wooden wire crimper

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21 reviews

10F Plastic Roof ANEL®

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8 reviews

Box for package bees

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6 reviews
Beehives accessories - Tops, bottoms and other components

Beehive Accessories

These are parts costing less than a euro that decide things costing whole colonies. Here is what to understand about each group.

The entrance is the control organ

The colony comes in through it, the air goes out through it, and what you want kept out either passes or does not. That is why there is one for each situation and not a universal one:

  • Winter/summer angled entrance — turns to open or narrow the gap by season. Narrowing in winter cuts the surface the colony has to defend and through which heat is lost.
  • Blind entrance — to close up for migration or treatment.
  • Anti-velutina entrance for Langstroth and Dadant — lets the bee through and not the hornet.
  • Long metal and square entrances for fixed-comb hives, with open-closed positions.

Spacers keep the distance

The Hoffmann plastic spacer (€0.12) is among the cheapest things in the catalogue and does a job you notice all year: keeping the correct distance between frames. When that spacing goes out, the bees fill it with wax bridges and propolis, and every inspection turns into a fight with the hive tool. Twelve cents a frame against that is a good trade.

The rest: what stops the box opening on its own

Corner pieces of 150×60 and 230×60 mm, butterfly and easy-open catches, hasps, joining plates and angle protectors. These are reinforcement and closing parts: they matter when moving hives and in migratory work, which is when a loose catch becomes a serious problem.

There are also ventilation grilles for floors, crown-board vents and comb-honey sections — APIBOX containers and NICOT® sections — if you want to sell comb rather than extracted honey. Frames are separate, and to work with all of this without incident there is the suit.