Professional beekeepers, manufacturers and retailers est.1953 NEW products for 2021 Catalogue of Beekeeping Equipment 2021 Introduction Welcome to Contents WE WILL BE HAVING OUR Starter Kits 2 Maisemore Apiaries Ltd SALE ONLINE Packaged Rock Bottom Bee Hives 3 Contents FOR 2021 Bees on Comb, Queens/Honey & Books 4 Honey House & Storage Cedar Hives & Hive Parts 5 We no longer have a shop FOR THREE DAYS ONLY, FROM SATURDAY 26TH JUNE Poly Hives, Nucs & Parts 10 but offer a ‘Click & Collect’ Frames 16 TO MONDAY 28TH JUNE. service from our premises. Beeswax Foundation 18 Shows & Exhibitions 2021 Clothing 20 Maisemore Apiaries began when Leo and Leslie Hiam The Environment Extraction 24 started keeping bees as a hobby, when the Second All the timber used in making our bee hives and ALL SHOWS ARE VIRTUAL EVENTS World War began they had to go and help the war Bee Health 34 hive parts come from sustainable forests around the DUE TO COVID19: effort so the bees were left to their own devices, on world. their return they increased the number of bees and Feeders & Bee Feed 38 Wood waste is all recycled, ULSTER BEEKEEPING ASSOCIATION began to make beekeeping equipment. Smokers 42 saw dust and shavings ANNUAL CONVENTION Now Maisemore Apiaries is still a family run and are all bagged in our plant Friday 19th - Saturday 20th February Hive Tools & Hardware 43 owned business, looked after by Eric, Johnathan, and used as bedding for Caroline and Mark Hiam, we now have approx. 1000 pets and horses, timber off Greenmount Campus, Co. Antrim, BT41 Parts & Accessories 44 hives of bees all in standard National hives around cuts are used as firewood. 4PS Hereford, Worcester and Gloucestershire, our hives We also now manufacture Marking & Queen Rearing 50 are used for pollination of all fruits and arable crops BEETRADEX SHOW wooden briquettes for open Jars & Containers 52 and honey production. fires, ovens, chimeneas, Saturday 13th March We are based in Maisemore, Gloucester and are still woodburning stoves and bbqs at an amazing price of Hall H2, Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire, Labels 54 working from some of the same buildings that Leo £3.50 per 10kg when collected from our premises. CV8 2LG Order Form 58 and Leslie worked in, we now supply all of the UK and Last year we bought a machine for recycling Ireland and indeed all the world. cardboard, old cardboard boxes are collected from WELSH BEEKEEPERS’ ASSOCIATION Terms & Conditions / Delivery 59 local shops and used as loose fill/packaging for all SPRING CONVENTION Index 60 Opening Hours mail orders. Saturday 27th March Monday - Friday 9am - 5pm Royal Welsh Agricultural Showground, Look out for our Saturday (March to September) 9am - 1pm We cater for everyone from the smallest Llanelwedd, Powys, LD2 3SY Saturday (October - February) CLOSED linked products hobbyist to the serious professional Sunday & Bank Holidays CLOSED BRITISH BEEKEEPERS ASSOCIATION GIFT VOUCHERS We will be closed for Christmas 2021 from 24th SPRING CONVENTION MAISEMORE APIARIES LTD Available in £5.00, £10.00 and £20.00, an December 2021 to Monday 4th January 2022. Saturday 17th April Old Road, Maisemore, Gloucester GL2 8HT ideal gift to give to a friend or a relative to Harper Adams University, Newport, Purchase your Beekeeping Supplies Securely at Bees- Tel: (01452) 700289 spend as they wish. Shropshire TF10 8NB Online.co.uk. Most major credit cards taken, with Thawte® Email: [email protected] 128 bit Encryption, your personal details are SAFE & www.bees-online.co.uk 3 DAY SALE EVENT SECURE. www.woodenbriquettes.co.uk Saturday 26th - Monday 28th June www.bees-online.co.uk We accept Find us on Facebook & Twitter UK NATIONAL HONEY SHOW ® Thursday 21st - Saturday 23rd October Cannot be Sandown Park Racecourse, Esher, Surrey, used at Shows Apologies but we cannot accept American Express KT10 9AJ & Exhibitions (01452)700289 www.bees-online.co.uk www.woodenbriquettes.co.uk [email protected] (01452)700289 www.bees-online.co.uk www.woodenbriquettes.co.uk [email protected] 1 inc. VAT (Items cannot be swapped) Starter Kits Starter Kits Packaged Rock Bottom Bee Hives We offer two types of starter kits, the National being the most popular hive in the UK and WBC, all frames will interchange between the two hives, Rock Bottom National Bee Hive (Cedar) available in the flat for self assembly or assembled and sanded ready to go into your desired area of the garden. In Flat £172.10 Hive and frames are of second quality and come complete with assembly instructions, Made Up £229.85 hive nails and FREE 100g frame nails, if supplied flat. Hives National Hive Starter Kit (Cedar) • Pair of Standard Leather Gloves (Plain) Grey A selection of items not to scale, for illustrative Comes with:- Foundation • 2 Pairs of 10 Slot Castellated Frame Comes with:- *select size required purposes only. See description. • Open Mesh Floor & Entrance Block • Plastic Queen Excluder Spacers • Etna Large Stainless Steel Smoker with Guard • Solid Floor & Entrance Block OR Open Mesh (Assembled) • 2 Supers with 10 x SN1 Frames in each • Crown Board including Porter Bee Floor *select type required • ½ kg Smoker String • Brood Chamber with 12 x DN4 Frames • 20 Sheets of BS Shallow Wired escapes • Brood Chamber • Stainless Steel Hive Tool • 12 Sheets of BS Deep Wired Foundation • Shallow 4” Roof • 11 x DN1 Frames • 4 Pint Rapid Feeder • 11 x Sheets of BS Deep Wired Foundation • Bee Book (Bees at the Bottom of the Garden by Rock Bottom National 14x12 Bee Hive (Cedar) • 22 x Plastic Narrow Ends (White) Alan Campion) In Flat £198.09 Hive and frames are of second quality and come complete with assembly instructions, • Plastic Queen Excluder (Green) OR Slotted Steel • 100G OF FRAME NAILS FREE IF SUPPLIED IN hive nails and FREE 100g frame nails, if supplied flat. Made Up £278.94 Queen Excluder *select type required FLAT • Super Standard (In Flat) Solid Floor £495.77 Comes with:- • 12 Sheets of 14x12 Wired Foundation • 2 Pairs of 10 Slot Castellated Frame • Open Mesh Floor & Entrance Block • Plastic Queen Excluder Spacers • 10 x SN1 Frames 14 x 12 (In Flat) Solid Floor £530.59 (Assembled) • 2 Supers with 10 x SN1 Frames in each • Crown Board including Porter Bee Rock Bottom Bee • 10 x Sheets of BS Shallow Wired Foundation Standard (In Flat) Open Mesh Floor £506.15 • 14x12 Brood Chamber • 20 Sheets of BS Shallow Wired escapes • Pair of 10 Slot Castellated Frame Spacers 14 x 12 (In Flat) Open Mesh Floor £540.97 • 12 x 14x12 Deep Hoffman Frames Foundation • Shallow 4” Roof • Crown Board with Porter Bee Escapes Standard (Made Up) Solid Floor £579.77 • Shallow 4” Roof 14 x 12 (Made Up) Solid Floor £637.15 Rock Bottom WBC Hive (Cedar) • Hooded OR Round All-In-One Suit - White, Standard (Made Up) Open Mesh Floor £581.90 In Flat £266.81 Hive and frames are of second quality and come complete with assembly instructions, Khaki or Sage *select type and size required 14 x 12 (Made Up) Open Mesh Floor £639.28 hive nails and FREE 100g frame nails, if supplied flat. Made Up £343.04 Packaged Comes with:- • Entrance Slides (Per Pair) • Slotted Steel Queen Excluder WBC Hive Starter Kit (Cedar) • Pair of Standard Leather Gloves (Plain) Grey A selection of items not to scale, for illustrative • Open Mesh Floor & Entrance Block • Crown Board including Porter Bee • 2 Supers with 10 x SN1 Frames in each Comes with:- *select size required purposes only. See description. (Assembled) escapes • 20 Sheets of BS Shallow Wired • Etna Large Stainless Steel Smoker with Guard • Lift & Porch • Brood Chamber with 11 x DN4 Frames Foundation • Solid Floor with Legs OR Open Mesh Floor • Lifts x 2 • 11 Sheets of BS Deep Wired • 2 Pairs of 10 Slot Castellated Frame • ½ kg Smoker String *select type required • Roof Foundation Spacers. • Lift with Porch • Stainless Steel Hive Tool • 2 x Lifts • 4 Pint Rapid Feeder • Bee Book (Bees at the Bottom of the Garden by Rock Bottom WBC 14x12 Bee Hive (Cedar) • Brood Chamber In Flat £298.10 • 10 x DN1 Frames Alan Campion) Hive and frames are of second quality and come complete with assembly instructions, hive Made Up £370.70 • 10 x Sheets of BS Deep Wired Foundation • 100G OF FRAME NAILS FREE IF SUPPLIED IN nails and FREE 100g frame nails, if supplied flat. • 20 x Plastic Narrow Ends (White) FLAT Comes with:- • Crown Board including Porter Bee • 2 Supers with 10 x SN1 Frames in each • Slotted Steel Queen Excluder Standard (In Flat) Solid Floor £639.73 • Open Mesh Floor with Legs (Assembled) Escapes • 20 Sheets of BS Shallow Wired • Lift and Porch • 14x12 Brood Chamber with 11x14x12 Foundation • Super 14 x 12 (In Flat) Solid Floor £672.29 • Lifts x 3 Hoffman Self-Spacing Frames • 2 Pairs of 10 Slot Castellated Frame • 10 x SN1 Frames Standard (In Flat) Open Mesh Floor £663.61 • Roof • 11 Sheets of BS 14x12 Wired Foundation Spacers • 10 x Sheets of BS Shallow Wired Foundation 14 x 12 (In Flat) Open Mesh Floor £696.18 • Entrance Slides (Per Pair) • Slotted Steel Queen Excluder • Pair of 10 Slot Castellated Frame Spacers Standard (Made Up) Solid Floor £752.26 • Crown Board with Porter Bee Escapes 14 x 12 (Made Up) Solid Floor £804.65 Rock Bottom WBC Hive (Cedar) Outer Casing Only • Roof with Plastic Cones Metal Covered Standard (Made Up) Open Mesh Floor £758.20 This is a fully functional bee hive, it can be used as a simple garden ornament or for • Hooded OR Round All-In-One Suit - White, 14 x 12 (Made Up) Open Mesh Floor £810.57 In Flat £146.11 Khaki or Sage *select type and size required keeping bees, it is very attractive and would be the main focal point in anyone’s garden.