Nuc Boxes & Supplies

Nuc Boxes are used to hive a small colony of bees — usually a package, swarm, or split — but we've discovered several other uses for Nuc Boxes. Here are our favorite alternative uses for Nucs:

• Holding frames while we inspect a bee hive or redistribute resources
• Serving as a bait box to capture swarms
• Functioning as a mating nuc for raising queens
• Adding a strap and dividers to create a useful toolbox for the yard
• Housing a battery for an electric fence in our bee yards — unofficially coined the "nuclear power plant"

Double Nucs help Northern beekeepers minimize their dependence on package bees: You can overwinter bees in 8 frames arranged in a 4-frame over 4-frame configuration. The overwintered nucs we sell are raised in these nuc boxes.