Beemax

[MicahNH]

I'm thinking bout buying me a Beemax starter kit along with another beemax hive from Dadant. Has anybody in here had experiance with BeeMax hives and is there any other websites who sell Beemax kits also?

[amymcg]

I have one right now. I like it. It's light, easy to put together, The foam is very dense. It's not like a sytrofoam cooler.

Alot of people in Europe use something similar.

You can also buy them from betterbee :  http://www.betterbee.com

They are probably about the same price, but shipping might make the difference for you on who you choose.

[IndianaBrown]

I just got started myself.  I chose this hive with the plastic frames:
http://betterbee.com/products.asp?dept=220

I believe the one from Dadant is just a single brood chamber with no supers, so this may be a better deal in the long run.  Betterbee also sells 'hive increase kits' and individual deeps and supers as well.

So far I really like it, although I have only had my bees a little over a week.  I have read that some bees may be a little slow to go for the plastic frames, but I don't have enough experience to say for sure.  In my casy, bees from a 4 frame nuc (that was completely filled before being placed in the hive) had built up some comb on the 2 adjacent frames during the first week.