Apimaye Hive

[neillsayers]

Thought this might be interesting to beeks in the far north.

https://apimaye-usa.com/

[Perry]

Very interesting Neil, thanks.
I saw this ad a couple of weeks ago and wondered what this product was as I had never heard of it before. I wonder if it is something I might look into? New Brunswick is the next province over from us.

https://www.kijiji.ca/v-business-industrial/saint-john/beekeeping-equipment-feeders-queen-excluders/1305473546?enableSearchNavigationFlag=true

[neillsayers]

It looks like it would be very useful in areas where it is necessary to insulate in the winter. I enjoy building my own equipment so I'm not very interested.

[goforlow]

Our club has a community apiary, and one of the new keepers got an Apimaye hive.  He started the year a bit late, so he doesn't have bee's yet. Looking for a swarm.  He will have a lot of folks looking at this new hive.

[RAST]

Here's a guy thats made a couple or three videos on it.

[LazyBkpr]

I have seen a few new ideas for hives come up through the years...  I even tried a couple of them...  My biggest problem is usually with the plastic frames. They work wonderful for a few months, and then... they get hard to get out, and they flex a lot.  When I break an ear off, its not so hard to replace a wooden top bar, but its impossible to repair a plastic frame as strong as it was originally...   as strong as it was originally...  Originally....   I didn't watch the vid, are the frames standard size?