Hoover Hives 8 Frame Langstroth Beehive Parts Kit Dipped in 100% Beeswax Includes Telescoping Top Cover, Oval Bee Escape, Inner Cover, Solid Bottom Board, Entrance Reducer & Queen Excluder

Hoover Hives are known for their beautiful and skillfully crafted beehives. Every exterior hive part that may encounter rain or snow has been built with Fir wood and has been coated in 100% natural beeswax to help weather the elements. We've thoughtfully chosen to use Fir wood over the traditional Pine because Fir has a tighter knit grain-flow within the wood than Pine does. This makes our exterior parts far more durable and less likely to shrink, expand, warp, or twist from the rain than Pine would. Once we've cut the wood, we dip each part into a pool of natural beeswax. We allow the beeswax to be soaked into the hive parts. This not only protects the wood, but is also what gives our hives their natural golden honey lustrous allure. This kit includes a pre-assembled Telescoping Top Cover that has been capped with galvanized steel to resist rust. The Inner Cover has been pre-assembled and has an multipurpose oval opening cut out of the middle. Oval Openings can be used to allow your bees entrance to a personal hive feeder method. It can also be used for Oval Bee Escapes which are one-way exits to empty your honey supers of bees when you are about to harvest. A plastic Queen Excluder has been included to allow you to control where the queen is allowed to lay her eggs. To ensure that the queen only lays eggs in the 2 deep brood boxes, you would place this hive part between the top Deep Brood Box and the lowest Medium Super Box. The pre-assembled solid bottom board will reroute the wind chill and help keep your bees well insulated during cooler months. We've also included an Entrance Reducer that can defend your bees from intruders while they are growing their colony. Oval Bee Escapes can be great during your end of the year harvest when you are trying to get the bees out of the honey super box that you are harvesting from.Wondering how to use it? Click Here. Hoover Hives 10 frame hive parts use dimensions that are consistent with the industry standard an

• Beeswax Coated Telescoping Top Cover
• Beeswax Coated Solid Bottom Board
• Oval Bee Escape and Beeswax Coated Entrance Reducer
• Beeswax Coated Inner Cover
• Plastic Queen Excluder