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Beehives
- Complete beehive
- Accessories
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Nuc hives
- Nucs by format
- With bees & mating
- Spare parts
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Bee equipment
- For the apiary
- For the beekeeper
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Clothing
- Clothing Accessories
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Beeswax
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Pure beeswax
- Beeswax and foundation
- Beeswax foundations
- Melting and rolling beewax
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Pure beeswax
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Bee feed
- Accessories and source materials
- Utensils
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Bee health
- Varroa Treatments
- Diseases control
- Nutraceuticals
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Extraction and bottling
- Before extraction
- Honey extraction
- After extraction
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Bee pollen
- Harvest
- Indicted
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Honey packaging
- Flasks per utility
- Flasks by size
- Other packaging
Apipasta with vitamins 15kg
Beecomplet® Spring 14Kg
Beekeeper suit with round veil
Oxalic acid 1kg
Beeswax Foundation 5kg
Fresh royal jelly 20g
Classic honey jar 1kg comb-lines TO77 - Pack of 16 units
Promotor L Apis 1 litre
Nuc Parts & Accessories
Lids, floors, supers, entrance blocks, feeders and spare frames to repair or expand the nuc you already own. Every part belongs to its own system. From €0.30 to €36.50.
Choose the spares before you choose the nuc
When someone asks me which nuc to buy, they are almost always looking at the price of the box. I look at what they will be replacing over the next ten years, and that does not show up in the catalogue — it shows up in the orders.
The part most people ask us for in this category is not the lid, it is the floor. Over the last two years 137 different customers have bought one: more than any other part here, and more than any complete nuc in this range. Behind it come the entrance blocks, the lid and the runner strip, all between 90 and 110 customers. None of them costs twenty euros, and they are exactly the parts that leave a nuc standing idle when you do not have them.
In mating nucs the pattern is different: there the consumable is the frame. Nearly nineteen hundred Kieler top bars went out in two years, and twenty-two customers took them. Anyone rearing queens in series does not buy frames, they buy boxes of frames, every year. If you are choosing between Kieler, Mini Plus and APIDEA, budget the frame as a recurring cost, not as part of the price of the nuc.
Two warnings that work against selling you more. If you are building a complete Paradise, check the kit before the separate parts: today it comes out cheaper than buying body, floor and lid one by one, and it includes the divider and the double entrance as well. Buy loose only what you are replacing. And if your nuc is HDF, be realistic: spares here come down to the lid, nineteen units in two years. It is a system to use, not to repair.
Last comes timing. In August and September spares reach almost half of everything we sell across the whole nuc range, against less than a quarter in March. That is no accident: it is when you strip things down, see what is broken and still have time in hand. By March you do not.
Nuc Parts & Accessories
A nuc rarely fails as a whole: the lid cracks, an entrance block goes missing, or the colony grows and needs a super. Replacing the part costs between €0.30 and €36.50 — but only if you pick the right one, and that is where most people get it wrong.
The system matters more than the frame size
Knowing that your nuc is a “6-frame Langstroth” is not enough to order a lid. Parts belong to a closed system —Paradise Honey, Quarti, HDF or NICOT— and they do not interchange, even when the frame size matches. The costliest mistake is with Dadant: Blatt has a 47 cm top bar and US has 48 cm. One centimetre, and the body will not fit.
The four mistakes that end in a return
- Ordering by frame size instead of by system. Find the make of the nuc you already own —on your order confirmation or on the body itself— and stay within that range. “6-frame Langstroth” does not identify a lid.
- Assuming parts are included. The Paradise floor has the slot for the entrance block but not the block itself; the APIDEA super comes without frames or feeder; the Kieler super does not include the top bars; the Quarti metal entrance comes without screws.
- Fitting a super and forgetting the lid. Once you add height, a flat lid no longer closes. The Quarti galvanised lid measures 50.8 × 28 cm inside and 11 cm deep, with a raised skirt for exactly that reason.
- Choosing the entrance block for the nuc instead of for the floor. The NICOT entrance fits the NICOT floor of 54 × 28 cm; the Paradise ones sit in the slot on the base and come in pairs, because the base can be split into two compartments.
In mating nucs, frames are never shared
Kieler, Mini Plus and APIDEA are separate formats, not sizes of the same thing. The Kieler frame measures 170 × 110 mm; the APIDEA mini frame is around 10 × 5 cm and three go in each nuc; Mini Plus takes the Nicot half frame. None fits another, so choosing a mating nuc also means choosing the frame you will buy for the rest of its working life. Still deciding? Compare the formats here.