The Paradise Hiveware System from Finland provides a healthy environment for your bees all year round. This is achieved due to the excellent thermal property of the EPS100 (Expanded Polystyrene) product used in their manufacture. This ensures your bees are able to use all their energy in brood and honey production as they do not have to work so hard to warm the hive.
Read on to discover: Benefits of the Paradise Polystyrene Beehives
- Improved Overwintering: Dry and warm through cold and damp winters thus increasing the survival rate and overall health of your bee colonies. These hives also enable bees to be productive through extremely hot summers. This is due to the excellent thermal performance which provides a healthy environment for honeybees all year round. Traditional wooden hives are susceptible to condensation build-up thus exposing colonies to diseases such as Nosema. The Paradise system provides more than six times the insulation value of a wooden hive and provides the same protective thermal mass as if they were living in a large hollow tree.
- Faster Spring Buildup: The queen is able to lay right out to the edge frames in the brood chamber due to the consistent temperature and additional warmth of the Paradise hive. As a result there is a faster buildup in spring providing a large productive hive earlier in the season.
- Increased Honey Production: You can expect 30-35% increase in honey production per hive with the Paradise system. If you are a commercial beekeeper then this is a no-brainer.
- Optimised for Varroa Control: The Paradise hive comes with Varroa mesh as a standard fit in the hive bottom. This makes Varroa management easier as any mites that drop to the base will fall through the mesh and perish. It is easy to slot a corflute plate in the grooves under the mesh to monitor your mite drop.
- Reduced Weight and Ergonomic Design: The reduced weight is a significant advantage making your hives easier to handle and transport. This is especially helpful for commercial operations who are moving large numbers of hives. Comfortable moulded handgrips are easy to grip. The stepped profile on the top and bottom edges of the beebox interlocks the boxes together. This eliminates water penetration during wet weather.
- Integrated Feeding System: The Paradise hive top feeding system integrates seamlessly into the beehive. This is a convenient size 10 litre feeder that is easy to install and remove. As a plus, the feeder comes with a polycarbonate beesaver.
- Reduced Swarming: The Queen Trap System is an optional addition to the Paradise system. When this is installed on your queen excluder it traps the queen in the brood chamber. Any attempt by the colony to swarm will be unsuccessful as the queen is unable to join them. As a result, the swarming bees return to the hive as soon as they discover that the queen is not with them.
- Easy to Assemble: The Paradise beebox is simple to assemble. All you need to do is apply an exterior grade PVC glue to the joints and press the componentry together. The hive bottoms only require the mesh to be attached (it simply clips into place). The hive tops require no assembly. It is advisable to apply two coats of paint to your beeboxes to protect them. A useful tip with the top feeder is to apply a light coat of sand underneath the bee saver while still wet. This gives grip for the bees.
Environmental Advantages:
- As the EPS100 product is 100% inert and does not give off any chemicals it provides an extremely safe environment for your bees. Neither Chloroflourocarbons (CFC's) nor Hydrochloroflourocarbons (HCFC's) are used in the manufacture of expanded polystyrene.
- EPS is the lightest of all construction materials in common use thereby minimizing environmental impact (and cost) associated with the movement of heavy boxes. This is a particular advantage to commercial beekeepers who move their boxes several times a year.
- EPS beehives have a significantly longer life than traditional wooden hives - lasting up to 30 years. It is a recyclable product at many stages of its life cycle: even during production any manufacturing waste can be fully reprocessed by milling into pellets and adding to the production mix without any detriment to the quality of the finished EPS product.
Complete Paradise 10-Frame Hive
$172.26 – $180.94
Hive World supplies a complete Paradise 10-frame hive with top, bottom, 2 x supers (your choice of FD or 3/4D), an entrance reducer, queen excluder and a 10L top feeder.
Give your bees the best comfort with an ambient all-year-round temperature to allow them to concentrate on producing more honey.
Paradise 10L Feeder
$29.48
Paradise 10L Feeder to use with your Paradise hiveware.
Ergonomic design fits seamlessly between your beebox and the hive lid.
Supplied with 1 x polycarbonate bee saver.
Pricing breaks available for 10 x product, 50 x product and 100 x product. Please contact us for quotation either on phone: 0800 000 770 or email: [email protected]
Paradise Langstroth Body + 4 plastic profiles
$37.40 – $41.74
Paradise Langstroth Body + 4 plastic profiles to protect the edges. Available in Full Depth or 3/4 Depth sizes.
A long-lasting lightweight option for your hiveware. Paradise EPS100 (Expanded Polystyrene) is an amazingly strong product that will last up to 30 years. Its excellent thermal performance provides a healthy environment for your bees all year round. Keeps the cold and damp out through winter and protects the hive from excessive heat in the summer.
As a result, your bees can use their energy to build up the honey reserves and expand the hive early in the season as they are not wasting their energy keeping the hive at an ambient temperature.
Paradise Nuc & Mate Hive
$78.00 – $115.83
NOTE – We have price breaks for quantity buys, please contact us.
There are 3 options when purchasing a Nuc&Mate hive system:
- HFP-NMB: The Basic Nuc&Mate with hive top & ventilated bottom, 1 x nuc body.
- HFP-NMBF: As above plus a 5L top feeder with 2 x plexy beesavers.
- HFP-NMBC: As per option 2 plus a division board.
The Nuc & Mate Hive:
The Nuc & Mate Hive is designed for maximum efficiency and ease of use. This nucleus hive can be used to expand your beekeeping operation, to sell bees or as an economical mating hive.
The Nuc & Mate Hive is made of food grade, extra hardened, expanded
polystyrene (EPS) with a density of over 100 kg/m3. With proper use, the
Nuc & Mate Hive will last for several decades.
The bottom board, hive body and top are manufactured with a 6 mm high notch system which locks the parts firmly into each other. The design ensures good ventilation as well as ease of transport and stacking.
The Nuc & Mate Hive has a screen bottom board with two 18 mm high
entrances on opposite sides. In the middle of the bottom board there is a 7 mm wide groove for the divider board so the hive can be used for two separate mating units. The mesh covering the ventilation hole in the bottom board should be secured with two screws. The groove for the dividing board continues up the end walls as well as along the inside of the hive top. The base has scalloped edges that allow a good ventilation and grip.With the Nuc & Mate Hive two queens can be mated within the same
box by dividing the six frame hive into two three frame mating units. When using as a mating hive, each three frame compartment should be equipped with one frame with emerging brood, one frame containing food
(or a frame feeder) and one foundation frame together with a ripe queen
cell or hatched queen. When the queen is laying, the unit can be reused
for mating another queen. In autumn, the divider is removed and the six
frame colony is overwintered with a young queen. Then, by the next season,
these nuclei will evolve into valuable honey producing hives.Paradise Nuc&Mate 5L Feeder
$27.83
Paradise Nuc&Mate 5L Feeder with 2 x plexy covers to fit your Nuc&Mate Hive.
Double ended feeding to allow for two nucs per box.
Made from lightweight but strong EPS100 expanded polystyrene that integrates seamlessly into the beehive. Easy to install and remove when feeding is required.
Paradise Nuc&Mate Division Board
$10.00
Paradise Nuc&Mate Division Board turns your Nuc&Mate into a twin breeding colony with 3 frames in each. When over-wintering, division board is easily removed to allow a 6-frame colony to survive safely.
Quantity price-breaks are available on this product – see below for details.
Paradise Queen Trap System
$30.87 – $40.26
Hive World supplies the Queen Trap System as part of the Paradise range. It fits the Paradise bee boxes perfectly of course. However you can still use with the regular timber supers, it just overhangs the edges.
The Queen Trap System works by providing an additional opening for the bees above the queen excluder allowing the beekeeper to close off the lower entrance to the brood box. This therefore keeps the queen safe inside and unable to swarm.
