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The Beehaus Beehive
This plastic bee house comes complete with everything your bees need, making keeping bees for beginners simple in the country or city.
A Complete Beekeeping Package
The Beehaus from Omlet makes keeping bees and collecting your own honey fun and rewarding. Bees are probably the most fascinating and certainly the smallest food producing animals you can keep at home. Now you can enjoy the amazing experience of beekeeping in your own garden or even on your rooftop. The plastic Beehaus beehive comes complete with everything you need to get started with beekeeping, you'll receive all the extras such as frames and wax foundation that you need before your bees arrive.
Inspired by the way bees live in the wild and building on the classic principles of beekeeping, you will find the this bee house a delight to use. Omlet's service and support will give you all the confidence you need to keep bees in your garden.
Two Beehives in One!
The plastic beehive brood box has two entrances - one at either end. There is enough space to accommodate 22 frames, which is double the number of frames in a traditional National hive. In spring when the queen is laying at her maximum rate your bees will be rapidly expanding in number. The extra space in the Beehaus allows you to either a) expand the hive as a single colony or b) divide the hive in two and start a second colony. This is an effective method of managing your bees’ natural urge to swarm.
Space For The Whole Bee Colony
Modern bees need more space than they did in the past because queens have been bred to be more prolific egg layers. The Beehaus uses deep National frames (14”x12”) that allow the whole colony to live in a single brood box. This simplifies inspecting your bees and is less disruptive to the bees compared to being housed in a double brood box system. Your bees will be calmer and easier to work with.
A Beehive that is Light and Easy To Move
The Beehaus comes with four ‘supers’ for the bees to store honey. You place these boxes on top of the hive in the spring when the bees start collecting nectar. The supers use a standard National super frame. However for easy handling, the Beehaus’ super boxes are half the size and therefore half the weight of a traditional beehive super box.
Protected Bee Entrance
This plastic beehive comes with a stainless steel entrance block useful for temporarily closing the hive. The wasp guard turns your hive into a fortress that the bees find easy to defend.
Secure & Weather Proof
The lid and honeyboxes are held securely to the base of the Beehaus by a strong cord which is quickly fastened at each end of the hive.
Bee Inspection Tray
This is located under the mesh floor of the house. It catches any mites or debris that fall from the hive which you can then examine to learn about the health of your bees.
How does the Beehaus work?
Bees need a warm, secure and dry place to live. In the wild, bees make their nest in a variety of places such as hollow trees and holes in rocks. Beehives were developed to make it easier to manage a colony of bees and collect honey. The diagram below explains the different parts of the Beehaus and their function.
Twin Wall Insulation Keeps Bees at a Constant Temperature
The innovative all-round double layer insulation helps keep your bees warm in the winter and cool in the summer. This is important as bees need to maintain a stable 35°C in the hive. They control variations in temperature by vibrating their bodies to generate heat or by using their wings as fans to circulate cool air.
Good Ventilation for Healthy Bees
The bee house mesh floor ensures your bees have good air flow within the hive. It also allows debris and mites to fall out and this helps keep your bees healthy.
Looks Great in your Garden or on your Rooftop
This modern beehive will bring your garden to life. Its compact shape means that finding a suitable spot is easy and the large range of attractive colours will suit any garden. You can keep bees whether you live in a town or the country. Bees are kept very successfully in urban gardens and rooftops where they forage in gardens and parks. Urban honey has a delicious flavour from the wide variety of plants available. In the country bees can collect nectar from crops, orchards and wild flowers.
Free extras with every Beehaus
The Beehaus comes as a complete hive ready for you to keep bees. Not only that, we’re so confident you’ll love everything about the Beehaus and your new bees we offer a 30-day, no-quibble money-back guarantee.
4 Supers
Each super holds 5 frames - enough to store approximately 7-8 kgs of honey.
4 Cover Boards
These fit on top of the supers and the hive to seal the bees in.
2 Clearer Boards
These are used to empty bees from the supers or feed the bees.
Frames
10 deep National brood frames and 10 National super frames - including wax foundation.
4 Queen Excluders
Stops the queen laying eggs in the honey supers
Hive Divider
Converts your Beehaus into two separate hives.
2 Hive Blockers
Use to shut the entrance or provide protection against wasps
Mesh Floor
This ensures your bees have fresh air all year round.
Inspection Tray
Shows up anything that drops out of the hive.
Guide To Beekeeping
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4 Honey Jars
Still taking wine to dinner parties? Your own honey is much more exclusive.
30 Day Guarantee
If you are not entirely satisfied with your Beehaus, you can send it back for a full refund.
Comfortable Height
The Beehaus is raised off the ground on sturdy legs. You don’t have to bend to lift heavy boxes as you do with traditional hives. Having the top of the hive at a convenient height and with space alongside to rest tools makes the job much easier.
The image below shows an illustration of the Beehaus next to a national and WBC hive. You can see that the Beehaus is more spacious and set at a better working height than traditional hives
Positioning your Beehaus
An ideal spot in a garden is against a hedge or fence to protect flying bees from the wind and rain. You should position the hive entrance so that the bees can fly in and out in a straight line. A quiet spot in the garden away from frequently used paths is best.
If you have neighbours then you can encourage your bees to reach their normal flying height quickly by planting a hedge or placing a fence approximately 2m in front of the hive. Bees normally fly above head height at about 5m above the ground.
If you live in a town and have a flat rooftop this can make a great spot to keep your bees. They can fly in and out of the hive undisturbed and will have a great view.
We Can Help Find Your Bees too!
Omlet can supply you with a list of suppliers in your area where you can source your colonies from. Bees are typically supplied on six frames which you can put straight into your beehaus.
Bees are subject to availability, so order early to avoid disappointment.
Collecting Honey!
Naturally, your bees wouldn’t expect to be able to live in such magnificent accommodation as the Beehaus rent free. You can collect an average of 50 jars of honey per year - although in a good year a colony may produce up to 100kg of honey! The amount depends on the size of the colony, the weather and the quantity and quality of the nectar near the bees. You’ll need to leave your bees with between 10 and 15kg of supplies to see them through the winter.
How to Harvest Honey
The simplest way of harvesting the honey is to uncap the comb and then scrape the honey into a colander which is sitting over a large container. The honey will drain from the wax into the container below. You can further strain the mush of wax by wrapping it in muslin cloth and the beeswax can then be used to make soap, candles, furniture polish, and a whole range of other useful things!
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Verified Reviews
The Beehaus Beehive
Quite Pleased but surprised
Hi I received my Bee Haus a couple of weeks ago and got it all put together very easily although I was very surprised when I came to put the frames together that the nails came through the top. Also when I loaded the Bee Haus up with the frames i had a big gap and after looking at Youtube it turns out that you can fit 11 frames not 10 but I only got 10 with it which I thought was strange.
Im very happy with the product but these are little things that are easy to fix.
Thanks
Jon
Review for: Beehaus Green
Seems great so far
For a full review please see our YouTube channel at Brooklands Honey Bees.
So far I am happy with the item, delivery time was a lot longer than expected but given everything going on in the world I'm not to bothered by that, the hive in theroy seems excellent but won't have bees in it till spring (January at time of writing this review) so will be able to give a better opinion then on my YouTube channel.
My only complaint at this time which is why I have only given 4 stars is due to the number of frames supplied, for a 22 frame hive (11 on each side) only 10 come with the kit which is one short, not a massive issue for me but if your new to beekeeping and by a package of bees I suggest you buy another pack of frames. My advice to Omelt, keep the jars and simply provide some more frames for the brood box.
Otherwise very good
Review for: Beehaus Green
This reviewer has 10+ Honey bees pets
Great design
Cannot wait to get the beehaus set up next Spring. It is so well designed, it will save my back and give the bees a lovely snug home!
Review for: Beehaus Green
Beehaus
Have it all put together but no bees coming until next summer so cannot review performance. Looks like it will do the job! I really like the minimal plastic packing, all the cardboard went straight into use as mulch on the garden.
Review for: Beehaus Green
so far, so good....but
Received the beehaus some time last year, immediately assembled it and the frames. I also played around with it before the bees went in just to ensure i know what everything is and of course I made sure I can operate it.Unfortunately you only know how the bees deal with it once the bees are in. Unfortunately the bees are exploiting all the gaps the beehive has. Most notably the gap between the Green sides and the Grey entrances. I put weatherstrip in there when all the bees were inside (evening) and that's at least solved. The other issue is that the supers don't seem to sit on the hive properly (silly little knobs to keep them in place) so I can see bees (and robbers) going in between the green sides and the grey supers. They also manage to get in where the bungy cord goes in the green lid! Although these things are resolvable and I will spread the weather foam/tape everywhere, I wish I knew this when the hive was empty. At the price I feel that the weatherstrip I'm putting on now should either be supplied or already on the product. Anyway my Nuc arrived and they are currently doing well and they seem to be doing very well. Lets hope the rest of the season is stress free?
Review for: Beehaus Green
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