Essentials Kit: 10FR Unassem

If you are catching swarms or making splits, this beehive kit is a perfect way to start them off. Later, you can either reunite colonies or top with additional boxes. Comes with all the components needed to start a colony quickly.

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When choosing plastic frames or plastic foundation, we highly recommend that you apply extra beeswax to the plastic to increase the acceptance by the bees and to entice them to draw it out faster. You can buy beeswax and paint it on yourself (melt it in a double boiler and use a foam paintbrush), or melt down the beeswax cappings and scrapings you saved from last year and paint it on using a foam paintbrush.

The Essentials Hive Kit includes:

• Telescoping outer cover*
• Wooden inner cover
• 2 deep hive bodies*
• 20 deep frames*
• Reversible bottom board and/or varroa monitoring equipment*

*Denotes a kit component with options.