$149.00
The Top Bar Hive Nucleus or "Nuc' has many purposes
-Hold combs while working on your hive
-Transfer combs to another hive
-Swarm catching (a great size to retrieve a swarm of bees)
-Transfer a swarm or split into a full hive
-Splitting hives
The Golden Mean size Nuc Includes:
- 9 (18" length) top bars - precision milled triangle wedge
- Handles (just like our hives) for easy carrying and transporting
- Nuc comes fully assembled!
-This is the wooden Nuc box only without bees
Filing through your hive and have some partially built honeycombs? No need
to brush off the bees to move forward inspecting more combs. Place
the comb with bees on it into the Nuc! No brushing bees off and
creating a cloud of bees! This keeps you and the bees calm!
We use our Nuc to catch swarms. A swarm will immediately begin to
draw out comb in whatever container they are collected in. With the
swarm in a Nuc, the bees simply draw out combs on the top bars and
can be easily transferred into the full hive. If needed the swarm can
be kept in the Nuc for a few weeks as they continue to build comb.
Once bees are collected into the Nuc they start to build comb right away. Whether catching a swarm or transferring a split with built comb, the bees and bars of built comb can be transferred all at once making for a very easy transfer into your full Golden Mean Hive.
When you inspect your hive or harvest some honeycombs the first couple of combs you encounter starting at the back of the hive are delicate, pure white,
uncapped honey combs. You want to make some space, so you just take
those uncapped combs and put then aside in the Nuc until you are ready
to return them to the hive.
You are doing a big spring harvest, instead of brushing the bees off of each comb you removed from your hive, place the comb, adhering bees and all and set them aside in the Nuc.
Now you have the chance to assess how many combs you are harvesting, before committing to brushing the bees off. No need filling the air with so many bees. When you are ready to go, you just brush or “herd” the bees off the combs with a Herding Tool all at once and take your Nuc with all the combs to your kitchen.
We used to use a crate to hold the combs while we worked a hive, but the Nuc is so much better because there is a cover. This lid helps keep the bees quite while you work. It also keeps the sun from melting the exposed honeycombs. Also if your are setting aside brood, keeping them covered will keep them warm.
Discover more uses for the Top Bar Nuc.
