Hive entrances

Metal entrances, winter/summer angled ones, square ones for fixed-comb hives, anti-hornet and plastic reducers. From €0.19 to €24.95.

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Hive Entrances · Discs, Reducers & Hornet Gates

Hive entrances

It is the cheapest part of the hive and the one that decides whether the colony can defend itself. Its whole job is one thing: matching the size of the door to the strength inside.

The rule

Strong colony, open entrance. Weak colony, closed entrance. A weak hive with the entrance wide open cannot guard that whole front, and that is where robbers and wax moth get in. A freshly made nuc wants a couple of centimetres, no more.

By season

  • Winter — reduced, to keep heat and stop mice. The winter/summer angled entrance gives both positions by turning the piece.
  • Summer — open: the colony needs to ventilate to evaporate nectar and cool the brood nest.
  • Migration — fully closed during transport, and opened at destination at night or at dawn, not in full sun.

The anti-hornet entrance

A grid that lets the bee through and not the hornet. It does not solve the problem on its own — you also have to act on the hawking pressure — but it reduces predator entry and lowers the colony's stress, which in hornet country stops foraging out of fear.

Traps are in wasp traps; the other parts in hive accessories.