HIVE PARTS & ACCESSORIES

Naturally, when you have the best hives you'll want the best parts and accessories to go along with them. Highland Bee Supplies provide an extensive assortment which should cater for your every need. Our range is detailed below:

	Quilts Our Standard and Super quilts are made to our own specification, and have an insulated side which keeps hive warm in Winter, but can also be used to help keep the hive cool in Summer. Heavy Jute £2.60 Standard Quilt £3.50 Super Quilt £5.50
	Glass Quilts Allows you to look into the hive without opening it, fitted with a porter bee escape to use as a clearer board. NATIONAL, WBC and COMMERCIAL sizes available. £14.60
	Polycarbonate Quilts Available for NATIONAL, COMMERCIAL or WBC. Stronger than glass by miles, it is supplied plain or with a hole to take a porter bee escape. This quilt offers better insulation & will not cause condensation. £15.34
	Plastic Queen Excluder Strong and virtually indestructible, with round edges so the bees don’t damage themselves while moving around the hive. Available for NATIONAL, COMMERCIAL or LANGSTROTH. £4.85
	Wired Unframed Queen Excluder Available for NATIONAL, COMMERCIAL or LANGSTROTH. Rounded wires ensure no damage is caused to the bees. Make your own frame if you should wish, but they are designed to go straight onto the hive. £8.94
	Wired, Framed Queen Excluder Available in ALL hive sizes. Rounded wires ensure no damage is caused to the bees, but complete with frame. £15.49
	Slotted Steel Queen Excluder Available for NATIONAL, COMMERCIAL or WBC hives. Designed to fit between the boxes. £6.98
	Crown Boards Available in ALL hive sizes. Made from 6mm exterior ply and then framed with batons. Complete with 2 porter bee escapes. £12.15
	Snelgrove Board Available for NATIONAL or COMMERCIAL. Ingenious invention used to stop your bees from swarming. £30.98
	Rhombus Clearer Board Available NATIONAL or WBC. A simple 6mm plywood board in a wooden frame with a large hole drilled centrally and fixed with a rhombus escape. There are no moving parts so there is nothing which can be clogged by the bees. £12.46
	Metal Roof Covers Available for NATIONAL, COMMERCIAL, WBC, GABLED, LANGSTROTH, SMITH and (MD) MODIFIED DADANT. Made from galvanised steel. WBC (per pair) £11.62 MD, Smith, Langstroth, Commercial, National and National Nuc £7.62 National Gable (per pair) £11.66
ESCAPES
	Porter Bee Escape A plastic escape which has plastic springs inside, allowing the bees pass to through but not to return. £1.00 each
	Rhombus Escape A simple diamond shape escape made of plastic with no moving parts. £1.96
	Cone Escape Suitable for WBC or Gabled Roof. £0.45
	Canadian Cone Escape £0.41 each £3.90 for 10
NAILS, WIRE & EYELETS
	Frame Nails Available 3/4” in length, black japanned gimp pins used for assembling frames. £1.25 50g £2.25 100g £4.00 250g £6.90 500g
	Hive Nails Available in 1 or 1½” lost heads, and 1½” or 2” headed. £6.48 500g bag.
	Wire for frames Approx 100g of frame wire supplied on a wooden bobbin for customers who prefer to wire their own foundation. £2.65
	Eyelets Small brass rings which are punched into the side bar of the frame, this stops the wire cutting into the wood. £8.00 25g bag
ENDS & SPACERS
	Narrow Plastic Ends Green, red, white, yellow, and blue, with spacing of 1 7/16". £0.10 each £0.99 per 10 £4.50 per 50 £8.30 per 100
	Narrow Metal Ends Made of tin plate with spacing of 1 7/16". £0.10 each £0.99 per 10 £4.50 per 50 £8.30 per 100
	Wide Plastic Ends Available in white only with spacing of 1 7/8”. £0.12 each £1.07 per 10 £5.05 per 50 £9.06 per 100
	Wide Metal Ends Made of tin plate with spacing of 1 7/8". £0.12 each £1.07 per 10 £5.05 per 50 £9.06 per 100
	Castellated Frame Spacers NATIONAL 9, 10 & 11 spaces £1.85 WBC 8 & 10 spaces £1.85
	Hoffman Converter Clips Plastic clip which is fixed to the top of DN1 or SN1 side bars to give Hoffman Spacing. £8.36 per 100
	Mouseguards A simple perforated metal strip which can be easily applied to the front of your bee hive. £0.99