National Plastic Queen Excluder (14×12 Shallow Roof Hive)

This National mould is as durable as our deep roofed poly hive and is a single moulded high density polystyrene hive (160g/litre). It provides enhanced insulation properties and strength and comes ready painted and ready to use straight from the box. As with our original poly hive, they are also embossed on the top and bottom of both the brood boxes and supers with rigid plastic. Feeder is not included.

Sometimes there is water ingress in the runners of the boxes, because the two plastic surfaces are not watertight and plastic cannot absorb water like wood. This is normal and if found a problem can easily be rectified by smearing a good amount of Vaseline on the top of the plastic runners to create a watertight seal between boxes.

These hives have the same exterior footprint as a Wooden National Hive.

The Brood Body and Super holds 11 Hoffman frames.

Frames/foundation, if included, comprise:
Frames 14×12 x 11 + foundation (flat pack)
Frames SN4 x 11 + foundation (flat pack)

NB:  This is NOT a 12 Frame National Hive

Due to the nature of the material this product may not be perfect – any scuffs or marks will not impede its use.