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Catalogue2020.Pdf THORNE BEEHIVES – THE COMPLETE EQUIPMENT SUPPLY COMPANY THORNE BEEHIVES – THE COMPLETE EQUIPMENT SUPPLY COMPANY SERVING BEEKEEPERS WORLDWIDE FOR OVER 100 YEARS – THORNE BEEHIVES NUCLEUS OF BEES DELUXE BEGINNERS KIT HIVES Hives and Bees Page 3-16 Heather Honey and Honey Processing Page 40, 47-48 The bees we offer are from our own apiaries and selected breeders in England Your choice of hive, National or WBC, in the flat with assembly instructions or and are bred for good temper and hardworking qualities. They adhere to ready assembled plus: sloping hive stand with legs, the book, The Bee Manual the standard set by the National Bee Unit. There are six frames providing a by Clare Waring, standard copper smoker, 10 smoker cartridges, all-in-one, pair Frames and Foundation Page 17-22 Labels Page 49-56 balance of bees of all ages, newly laid eggs, sealed brood and food stores. of kid leather gloves, mouseguard, bee brush, stainless steel hive tool, english Frames of comb are not more than two years old. Our standard National nuclei feeder and Honey for sale sign. are supplied in a plywood travelling box; the Commercial and 14” x 12” in a Sections Page 23 Honey Containers Page 57-58 polystyrene Everynuc. Both containers are non-refundable. They can be collected from Rand, Windsor, Stockbridge or South Molton. and Spacing and Entrance Fittings Page 24-25 Testing, Showing and Marketing Page 59 BEES CONTENTS Swarms Page 26 Pollen, Royal Jelly, Propolis and Polish Page 60 Smokers and Tools Page 27-30 Wax Extraction Page 61 Clearing Bees Page 30-31 Wax/Soap Moulds Page 62 Moving Hives Page 32-33 The Queen Page 63-66 Clothing Page 33-36 Health and Maintenance Page 67-70 Miscellaneous Page 36-37 Feeding Page 71-73 Uncapping Page 37-38 Books Page 74 Bees Queen £80.00 Thomas Equipment Page 39-40 Education Page 75-78 Standard National Nucleus £290.00 Commercial Nucleus £325.00 14 x 12 Nucleus £325.00 YOUR CHOICE OF HIVE Extractors Page 41-42 Gifts Page 79-80 We can supply these beginners kits with any STANDARD BEGINNERS KIT Konigin Equipment Page 43-44 Candlemaking Page 81-92 type of hive. Please Your choice of hive, National or WBC, in the flat with assembly instructions or contact us for prices. ready assembled plus: standard hive stand, the book, Bees at the Bottom of the Garden by Alan Campion, standard galvanised smoker, jacket and veil, pair of Honey Tanks, Valves and Strainers Page 45-46 mordant leather gloves, mouseguard, bee brush, stainless steel hive tool and english feeder. THORNE'S SHOWS AND EXHIBITIONS WBC SALE DAYS You will find us represented at NEWBURGH SALE DAYS these beekeeping events: Friday, 14th August, 3.00pm to 5.00pm Ulster Beekeepers Spring Convention, and Saturday, 15th August, 9.30am to 11.30am Greenmount College, Antrim 14th - 15th February WINDSOR SALE DAY Bee Tradex, Stoneleigh Park, Saturday, 5th September, 10.00am to 1.00pm Warwickshire, CV8 2LG 14th March Welsh Beekeepers Spring Convention, STOCKBRIDGE SALE DAY Builth Wells. 28th March National Saturday, 19th September, 10.00am to 1.00pm BBKA Spring Convention, Harper Adams College, Shropshire 4th April Beginners Kits With Assembled With Flat Packed SOUTH MOLTON SALE DAY Hive Hive Weight Saturday, 26th September, 10.00am to 1.00pm National Honey Show, Sandown Park Racecourse, National Standard £573.50 £452.60 29 Portsmouth Road, Esher, Surrey, KT10 9AJ National Deluxe £704.50 £580.40 32 RAND OPEN AND SALE DAY 22nd - 24th October National 14x12 Standard £614.60 £474.60 29 National 14x12 Deluxe £745.80 £601.10 32 PLEASE CONTACT US IF YOU WISH TO COLLECT Saturday, 10th October, from 10.00am WBC Standard £664.55 £535.40 42 ANYTHING FROM THE ABOVE EVENTS WBC Deluxe £772.50 £642.70 45 2 01673 858555 • www.thorne.co.uk • [email protected] 01673 858555 • www.thorne.co.uk • [email protected] 3 THORNE BEEHIVES – THE COMPLETE EQUIPMENT SUPPLY COMPANY SERVING BEEKEEPERS WORLDWIDE FOR OVER 100 YEARS – THORNE BEEHIVES SOLID FLOOR – still preferred by some HIVES NATIONAL HIVE beekeepers. Photograph ADAPTA HIVE STAND Manufactured at Rand from Western Red Cedar. You will find this bottom bee shows the correct position This versatile stand gives the beekeeper a variety of options on management, pollen spaced, single walled hive in use all over the British Isles. It is still the most of the entrance block. collecting, feeding, varroa control and much more. popular by far. Attractively designed with substantial hand holds that also See YouTube video: It is based around a pair of moulded plastic floor joists mounted on splayed cedar legs. accommodate the long lugs of the British Standard frame. http://bit.ly/2rP1hRL The joists have a variety of slots, holes and runners which enable the beekeeper to vary its mode very quickly. The splayed legs lift the hive 150mm. Heavy steel cross-member keeps BEES BEES The complete hive as shown comprises: open mesh floor, brood body with 11 hoffman self-spacing frames (DN4) on metal runners with wired premier the floor square. All rails on inserts are oak. In addition to the inserts below, also available foundation and dummy board, wood framed stainless steel wire queen excluder, are mouseguard, sloping alighting board (when reversed to a horizontal position can hold and two supers, each with 10 shallow frames (SN1) and wired premier foundation an entrance feeder), entrance canopy (clear polycarbonate cover helps protect the entrance on metal castellated spacers, crownboard with 2 plastic porter bee escapes and area from driving rain) Swarm Trap insert, Expanding Robo-Block and Anti-robbing Screen. and galvanised metal covered 4” roof. See YouTube video: http://bit.ly/2GvwA7h BEES See YouTube video: http://bit.ly/2FrhYEP HAPPY KEEPER FLOOR – Suitable BEES for National hives with 12 brood frames spaced at 35mm (DN4 or 14" x 12") or 11 DN4 and a dummy board. As the bees groom themselves they HIVES lose bits of wax or propolis Roof and of course varroa mites. The debris drops between the Crown frames and the tubes and falls Board to the ground. Does not include Super an entrance block. Solid Cedar Floor insert. Also showing sloping Open Mesh Floor insert and white correx Happy Keeper Floor insert. A standard dummy alighting board. ENTRANCE BLOCK – Three sizes. Open Mesh Floor - 405.00mm; Solid floor - inspection board. The Mesh Insert can be reversed board will be required to establish the correct 419.00mm; Budget Open Mesh Floor - 413.00mm. to close the hive completely. spacing. See page 3 for more details. Queen Excluder Brood Body Floor PAINTED HIVES Under Hive Entrance insert. This protects against Using our beehive paint shown on page 9, we can now supply painted National robbing, mice and cold winds. The bees access the National Hive Assembled Flat Packed Wt. Floor Pollen Trap insert, with plastic drying basket Potts Snuggle Board insert. Suspend below the Hives in red, green, blue, yellow, brown or white. hive from underneath through an 8mm slot. The mesh floor or solid floor. See page 6 for more Complete Hive, as above £435.00 £308.00 27 suspended underneath open-mesh area and Now available with Exterior Oil or Wood Stain applied. floor has a 330x370 galvanised mesh panel and vertical pollen stripper that fits across the floor. details. Empty Hive, no frames, correx insert for monitoring purposes. foundation or spacers £290.50 £223.50 22 Complete Hive with 14"x12" brood body £480.90 £331.50 31 Empty Hive with 14"x12" brood body £310.60 £238.55 25 The following items show components used in the complete National hive and alternatives which may be purchased either separately or as part of a complete hive. For example, you could change the 4” roof to a gabled roof or the crownboard to a glass quilt. See our website to Build your own Hive. Swarm Trap. NATIONAL FLOORS Auto Flow Feeder insert. An automatic syrup feeder can be introduced with ease with little OPEN MESH FLOOR – The healthy option providing good ventilation for the disturbance to the colony. Simply connect the hose colony. Removable correx sheet under galvanised mesh screen for convenient at the front of the feeder to the reservoir at the National Hive Assembled Flat Packed Wt. integrated pest management. Correx sheet available separately. side of the hive. The 10 litre reservoir sits on a Swarm Introduction insert. A shaped, steel Open Mesh Floor £39.00 N/A 4 plinth fitted to the side of the floor. Checking the re-inforced, white correx ramp that fits easily to Spare Correx sheet for above, feeder is working is simplicity itself, just slide it out the front of the stand onto which a swarm can be 430 x 400mm £3.30 N/A 0.5 from under the floor to inspect. shaken. Solid Floor £39.00 £28.80 2.5 Happy Keeper Floor £52.85 N/A 2.5 Adapta Hive Price Packed Wt. Adapta Hive Price Packed Wt. Entrance Block £4.40 N/A 0.2 Base £54.80 8.6 Anti-Robbing Screen £12.35 2.5 Entrance Block for Budget Mesh Solid Cedar Floor £29.00 2.5 Auto Flow Feeder £90.30 8 Floor £2.50 N/A 0.2 Open Mesh Floor £28.20 4 Swarm Introduction £10.20 2 Spare Correx sheet for budget Happy Keeper Floor £50.90 2.5 Mouseguard £0.84 0.2 open mesh floor, 435 x 410mm £3.30 N/A 0.5 Under Hive Entrance £50.90 2 Entrance Canopy £7.80 0.5 Painted Hive, complete, including Gabled Roof and Hive Stand £574.80 N/A 30 Floor Pollen Trap £13.55 3 Swarm Trap £54.30 2 Potts Snuggle Board £25.45 4 Expanding Robo-Block £18.00 0.2 Exterior Oiled or Wood Stained Hive, complete, including Gabled Roof and Hive Stand.
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