Mann Lake Traditional Complete Bee Hive Kit, 9⅝" Deep Hive Body with 10 Frames & Beeswax Coated Food-Grade Plastic Foundation, Weather Resistant Telescoping Cover & Bottom Board, Made in USA, Painted

I had a situation where there was a bee colony in the hollow of one of my maple trees. The bees were only three foot off the ground. I bought this hive, sprayed it with the lemon grass oil, I put bait inside of the hive...and I waited. That was two or three years ago. The bees were there in 2019, I put the hive next to the tree, all baited up...they explored it, left it. They stayed in the tree until last summer (2020) and then poof, they left. Meanwhile, a swarm of bees came thru, landed in a mulberry tree, less than 20 feet from the hive...fingers crossed, but they didn't like it either and moved on. Mid summer this year (2021), bees returned to my maple tree, stayed until the end of September and are gone again...meanwhile, the hive sits...waiting...empty....so....I may have to purchase bees in order to fill it...if I were a honey bee, I would be interested in living in the hive, it's roomy, nice place to build honey comb....call it home....

Local beekeeper here - Just wanted to say how well these boxes are built. If you’re familiar with other websites like dadant youll see that you can purchase different grades of wood but I assure you when you buy this product you’re getting the best of everything. I’ve built them before and ordered unassembled but this is just much simpler and more affordable. Don’t forget to get some hive staples to attach the bottom board to the brood box! Overall great quality! The plasticell seems to have adequate wax as well. Gonna try out this new breed called Saskatraz.

This box with frames is well built and very solid. Comes with everything you need to get your hive started. Includes, bottom, entrance reducer, frames, body, inner and top cover. I actually priced out the lumber and time it would take to build a hive and buy the frames separately, this actually works out better and does not take time to build. If you have good lumber kicking around, you could build one pretty easy but this is a good deal. Frames are good quality with waxed plastic foundation. I'm going to pick up my bees tomorrow and am very excited to drop them into this hive and let them get going.

Good product

Excellent speed of delivery (free). Product is well made and exactly as advertised. Bees are happy! Price was good. Only reason for not giving it 5 stars is that it only includes a solid bottom board (which was as advertised). We really wanted a screened bottom board option, which was not available. We had to purchase a screened bottom board elsewhere at an added cost of $35.

It is getting harder to find painted hive bodies and fully assembled frames -- This is a fascinating hobby, but I am not looking for extra work painting hive bodies or assembling frames. I ordered 4 of the full hive kit and another 4 extra hive bodies with frames. All arrived promptly, neatly painted, sturdily constructed. The wooden frames had plastic foundation inserts. While it was shipped assembled, some of the plastic foundation inserts did fall out in transport, but were super easy to re-insert -- no assembling frames, no clips and was foundation that easily breaks. We will see during the season how the bees react, but my previous experience with fully plastic frames with built in foundation has been good. The only downside is that this came with lots of boxes withing boxes, so unpacking took about 2+ hours. Overall, I am pleased with the construction and with the clean look. Package bees purchased locally get installed in 3 days.

Excellent quality-order complete with everything for assembly Excellent price / saved almost $ 100.00 per Hive compared to other vendors used in the past

This Hive is the quickest, easiest way to get a hive. This is my first hive and was able to set it up with no effort. Then, all you have to do is get the bees and "install" them. My bees have been in the hive for several months. I was a little worried but have been very excited and happy with the progress of the bees on the plastic foundation. The only think I wish it had was a screened bottom board instead of a solid. Item is accurately described and a great buy. I had to purchase an additional deep hive body fairly quickly because of the fast growth of the colony.