HIIVE Natural Hive Special Hives
HIIVE Natural Hive
495 .00
HIIVE-COMPLETE

HIIVE Natural Hive

HIIVE Natural Hive Special Hives
  • HIIVE Natural Hive Special Hives
  • HIIVE Natural Hive Special Hives
  • HIIVE Natural Hive Special Hives
  • HIIVE Natural Hive Special Hives
  • HIIVE Natural Hive Special Hives
  • HIIVE Natural Hive Special Hives
  • HIIVE Natural Hive Special Hives
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495 .00
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The HIIVE Complete redefines beekeeping by offering a hive inspired by nature, simulating the microclimate of a tree cavity. This structure provides bees with an ideal environment, enhancing their resilience and health, while reducing the need for chemical treatments. With HIIVE, bees can live in a balanced, self-sustaining habitat that fosters their natural behaviors and improves their adaptability to environmental challenges.

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Details of HIIVE Natural Hive

A tree cavity built on purpose: 37.5 litres of wooden tube, insulated with hemp wool, mounted on a pole and with not a single frame inside.

It is not a production hive, and that is worth saying first. The HIIVE is meant for keeping bees close, watching them and letting them build as they please. You do harvest, but little: the honey comes from an upper dome, not from stackable supers. Anyone after kilos needs another hive; anyone after a colony in the garden will see more here than they ever would in a Langstroth.

01 · NO FRAMES: NATURAL COMB

The bees build freely inside a wooden tube

There are no frames or top bars inside: the colony builds its combs downward from the top, at the spacing and thickness it wants, just as in a hollow tree. That is what makes it interesting and also what changes the whole management.

A freely built comb cannot be lifted out to look at it. Inspection is done through the windows and by what you hear and weigh, not frame by frame. Count on that before deciding: it is the biggest practical difference from any framed hive.

02 · THE HEMP WOOL

It does not heat: it cuts what the colony spends

The maker gives insulation 3.4 times better than a conventional hive. It is worth understanding what that means: insulation does not produce heat, it makes the heat the bees generate escape more slowly in winter and the heat outside come in more slowly in summer.

Hemp wool is also hygroscopic, so it buffers swings in humidity instead of condensing them on the wall, which is where the trouble in a cold sealed box comes from. The outer shell is weatherproof.

03 · THE HARVEST IS SYMBOLIC

A dome with an excluder, not a super

The honey is gathered in the upper dome, separated from the nest by a queen excluder. The German dealer puts that dome at about five or six litres, which is a few kilos: enough for the house and to show people, not for a season.

Put another way: here the honey is the consequence, not the aim. If the aim is honey, the catalogue's answer is a Langstroth or a Layens with their supers, not this.

04 · WHAT COMES SEPARATELY

The pole, the storm kit and the sensor

The HIIVE is installed on a pole, and that pole is ordered separately, as is the securing kit for strong wind. It is the first thing to budget for, because without it the hive does not stand.

The sensor is not inside either. The device that measures temperature, humidity and sound frequency inside the hive is a monitoring kit bought separately; the hive comes with the housing ready for it.

05 · BEFORE YOU BUY

Three things that decide whether this hive is for you, and one to ask about.

✓ FITSAnyone who wants a colony near the house to watch and learn from, with very little handling and a small harvest.
⚠ NOT INCLUDEDThe mounting pole, the storm securing kit and the monitoring sensor: all three are ordered separately.
✕ INSPECTION AND HEALTHWith no frames you cannot lift a comb out to inspect it, and treatments hung between frames do not fit. Ask your regional bee health authority about registration and how the sanitary inspection is handled before installing it.

TECHNICAL DATA

TypeNatural-comb hive, no frames and no top bars
Brood chamberCylindrical wooden tube, 37.5 litres
Honey spaceUpper dome with queen excluder
InsulationHemp wool (3.4 times that of a conventional hive, according to the maker)
Outer shellWeatherproof cover
MountingOn a pole, with guy lines
SensorHousing prepared; the monitoring kit is sold separately
Dimensions140 × 50 × 50 cm
Weight11 kg
ReferenceHIIVE-COMPLETE