A beehive entrance reducer lets you set how wide the front door of a hive is: fully open for a strong colony on a flow, narrowed for a new split or weak hive defending itself against robber bees, or shut completely when the hive is on the move. Combined models double as a mouse guard to keep rodents out. Choose from galvanised steel, stainless steel and plastic, sized for 8-frame and 10-frame timber hives as well as Apimaye insulated hives.
Width is the first thing to check. Most are made for either 8F or 10F boxes, while the reversible galvanised mouse guard can be trimmed to fit either. On an 8-frame hive, the reducer built for 8F timber and 7F Apimaye broods may need a small timber closure alongside it. Apimaye 10F owners can pick a double-slide bee hive entrance reducer that moves the openings to the sides, handy when two colonies share one hive and you want less drifting. For old-style wooden broods, supers and nucs, round discs rotate between closed, entrance, vent and queen excluder settings.
Relocating bees? The galvanised closures seal the hive while still allowing ventilation in transit; lifters and straps are under moving hives. Making a spring split? Fit a beehive entrance reducer to one of our nuc boxes so the small colony has less doorway to guard.
Reversable Entrance Closure / Mouse Guard - Galvanised Steel. Trim to fit 8F & 10F boxes.
Perfect for keeping rodents out, and for moving hives.
Entrance Closure for 10-Frame hive.
Allows ventilation during transport
Entrance Closure for 8-Frame hive.
Allows ventilation during transport.
Entrance Closure & Mouse Guard, perfect for standard 10-Frame wood hives.
Length 37.4cm
Height 4cm
Multifunctional Entrance Closure 10F.
Perfect closure for standard 10-Frame wood hives.
Entrance Closure & Mouse Guard, perfect for standard 8-Frame wood hives.
A premium quality Apimaye product
Multifunctional Entrance Reducer / Closure / Mouse Guard for 7-Frame and 8-Frame hives.
When used with 8-Frame hives, a small wood entrance closure may be required.
The new entrance reducer has 2 nested sliders that enable you to customise your hive entrance. With the new reversible entrance reducer you can:
- Have the hive entrances on the edges instead of the centre, just like the 7 frame hives
- If you are planning on having 2 colonies in the same hive and are concerned about the drifting, this would give you a good piece of mind
- If you would like to collect pollen for short periods of time, but don't want to put the trap in or out daily, you can block the centre and have the openings on the side
- Apimaye pollen traps are the highest yield pollen traps in the market that will take all the pollen from the bees. You can now put the pollen trap in the hive, and have a few holes of hive entrance open in the centre, activating the pollen trap, and have more entrances on the edges, bypassing the pollen trap
- Thus collect some pollen and leave some pollen for the bees
Round Bee Entrance Closure
Ideal multipurpose entrance with position options of:
- Close
- Entrance
- Vent
- Queen Excluder
Very useful for old-style wood Broods, Supers and Nucs.
Round Bee Entrance Closure in Stainless Steel
Ideal multipurpose entrance with position options of:
- Close
- Entrance
- Vent
- Queen Excluder
Very useful for old-style wood Broods, Supers and Nucs.
Round 7cm Bee Entrance Closure in Stainless Steel
Ideal multipurpose entrance with position options of:
- Close
- Entrance
- Vent
- Queen Excluder
Very useful for old-style wood Broods, Supers and Nucs.
Landing Board for 10-Frame Type G Base with Pest Board for Varroa, Small Hive Beetle & Wax Moth/Grub