Frame Plastic Full Depth Beetle Resistant Frame [Quantity: Single]
Full Depth Plastic Beetle-Resistant Frame
Upgrade your hive equipment with a durable Full Depth plastic frame designed to reduce the sheltered spaces where small hive beetles can hide. This beetle resistant frame from Hornsby Beekeeping Supplies combines a rigid one-piece construction with bee-cell patterns moulded into the top, side and bottom bars.
Once drawn and filled by the colony, the moulded cells help limit open spaces around the frame structure that could otherwise provide harbourage for small hive beetles. Therefore, the design offers a practical equipment-based addition to a broader hive beetle monitoring and management programme.
Why the Bar Design Matters
Traditional frame components can contain small joints and gaps. In contrast, this plastic bee frame includes moulded cells across the surrounding bars, encouraging bees to occupy more of the available frame surface.
The design does not replace regular inspections, strong-colony management or suitable beetle traps. However, it can help reduce potential hiding areas within the frame itself.
Built for Repeated Apiary Use
The frame includes strengthened lugs and a reinforced structure that provides rigidity comparable to a wooden frame. Its one-piece construction also removes the need to assemble timber parts, install eyelets or thread bee frame wire.
Product highlights include:
- Full Depth hive configuration
- One-piece plastic construction
- Reinforced frame and lugs
- Moulded cells in the top, side and bottom bars
- Designed to reduce small hive beetle harbourage
- No timber assembly or wiring required
- Available individually or in bulk quantities
The product page estimates that the frame may provide five to ten years of service when correctly prepared, used and maintained. Actual lifespan will depend on handling, storage and apiary conditions.
Beeswax Coating Required
This frame is supplied without a beeswax coating and must be waxed before being placed in the hive. A suitable layer of clean beeswax helps encourage bees to accept the plastic surface and begin drawing comb.
Beekeepers may rub wax across the cell pattern or carefully apply melted beeswax using a suitable brush. Ensure the coating is distributed across the foundation area without filling the cell pattern excessively.
Quantity Options
- Single frame
- Carton of 50 frames
Order the Full Depth Plastic Beetle-Resistant Frame from Hornsby Beekeeping Supplies today. Choose a single frame for replacements or a carton of 50 for larger apiary requirements. For beeswax, compatible hive equipment or product assistance, call 02 9477 5569 or email info@hornsby-beekeeping.com.
Great quality
By: Duc on 19 December 2022I think they're made in the USA. Need to add wax or should have provided as an extra option.
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Hornsby Beekeeping Supplies Response
Hi Duc, Our beetle resistant frames are made in New Zealand, which is why we do not supply them waxed. On your advice we have decided to add wax as an optional add-on when purchasing these frames.
Plastic frames are great
By: Clinton Dann on 11 January 2019I purchased 240 about 5 months ago and after putting a layer of wax on the bees loved them, so I've just bought another 200.
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