Hive Sets with Bees

Bee & Supply Pick Up appointment times are from 1:00 - 4:00 pm on the specific dates shown below - Beekeeping Classes are in the mornings

Honey Super Deluxe with 5 Frame Nuc of Bees

with Mite Strip & Ratchet Strap - from $550
Local Pick Up Only (no shipping)

Scroll to see multiple Pick Up Date options displayed down below in the order form section of this page. Find the order form box to use with the date that best fits your schedule and availability.

Click or tap the item's Description/Price to see the additional available options (like coatings). Make a choice, then enter your contact info and click or tap Add to Cart.

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Please Note: Our Texan bees are seasonal, available only during the local prime mating season each year. Taking orders for Texan Bee Pick Up dates starting April 11th, 2026.

These come with either Italian or Texan bees (seasonal) and choice of coatings, White Paint or Wax Dipped.

Note: This Honey Super Deluxe set includes one box with bees and one medium box with frames to add for growth and honey storage as needed. Typically in about 2 weeks, when Feeding or during a Nectar Flow (maybe sooner or later)

Each White Painted or Hot Wax Dipped set comes complete with the following:

1 - 5 Frame Nuc of Bees with Mated Queen (not marked)

1 - Telescoping Top Cover

1 - Inner Cover (not showing)
1 - 6 5/8" Medium Hive Body (aka med honey super) & 10 New Frames

1 - 9 5/8" Deep Hive Body (aka brood box) & 3 New Frames

1 - 1.5 Gallon Frame Syrup Feeder (not filled with syrup)

1 - 3" IPM Screened Bottom Board (including debris board)

1 - 4" Screened Bottom Board (including debris board)

1 - Entrance Reducer (secured and closed before transport)

1 - New Mite Control Strip (hanging between middle brood frames)

Queens are not marked or clipped

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Description

All of our Complete Hive Sets are ready to set on your hive stand and release the bees as soon as you get them to your designated apiary location. There is no need for any waiting period. Simply pull the Foam Entrance Plug (shown in the accompanying image) from the entrance reducer and let them fly asap. This is so they can make their orientation flights and go find water to help regulate the temperature of the brood nest and so they can start the process of locating the other needed resources in their new location.

Our Honey Super Deluxe Set, which comes complete with mated queens & a 5 frame Nuc of Bees installed into a 10 Frame Langstroth Style hive body with 3 new frames and a 1.5 gallon feeder. The bees are ready to release for flight upon arrival at their new location. During the growing season, they will soon need more growing room to prevent swarming, so this set includes the one extra box with frames for expansion.

Addition boxes can be ordered with any set to save a trip later for more boxes as the bees grow - (think of how fast kids can grow out of shoe sizes).

Quick Recap - These hives are made with white pine and every box is nailed or stapled and glued for added strength and stability. The sets come complete with a 1.5 Gallon Frame Pro Feeder, assembled and coated Hive Body, assembled Wood Frames, 8 total per box - 5 with comb and bees (the nuc) and 3 blank Frames with Waxed Rite-Cell® Foundation, one of the blanks may be a green drone frame. You will also receive an assembled Telescoping Top Cover with Inner Cover, a Screened Bottom Board with Entrance Reducer.

Hive stands are not included, but easy to create with a few concrete blocks. Visit the Bee Pick Up Day FAQs page for hive stand recommendations and more.

Frequently Bought Together - Optional Recommended Add-ons

Official South Central Texas Mann Lake Rep

If we don't stock it, we can get it!

This image shows the sizes of the top, hive body, and bottom board. This should help for making hive stands and/or making arrangements for loading into the space available in a vehicle.

Basically each unit will have a footprint of just under 19" x 24" (call it 2 foot by 2 foot for round figures) and can be stacked several layers high transporting.

Ready for Transport

The hives are bound together with ratchet straps to hold the hive parts together for transport. The entrances are plugged and secured with the bees inside the night before pick up.

The screened bottom board comes with an insert, called a "debris board", that slides into the bottom for winter or removed when needed for more ventilation... i.e. while transporting hives in warm weather.

The debris board will be held to the hive with the ratchet strap above the top cover for transport and should be stored indoors until fall when the night time temperatures fall into the 50s regularly, then inserted into the groove in the bottom board from the back side. This prevents cold air from blowing into the hive and allows the bees to keep the cluster warmer with less effort.

We will gladly demonstrate this process when you pick up your hives.

Find more tips and important info in the Bee Pick Up Day FAQs page.

More information

Visit the Types of Bees page for additional information about genetic variances.

Visit the FAQs & How To page for general information about bees including picking up and transporting bees.

All parts are fully assembled and are either primed and painted with high quality exterior latex paint or hot wax dipped for protection from the elements.

All orders are subject to the availability of raw materials. All prices are subject to change without notice.

All Hives, Bees, Parts and Supplies are Local Pick Up Only. Shipping is not an option.

These Hive Sets can be stacked for easy transport and are best kept in the shade when not moving.

The Bee Place... your official South Central Texas Mann Lake Beekeeping Supply Rep since 2015. If we don't stock it, we can get it!

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