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Do you know why polystyreen beehives dont exist? They are too difficult obviously. Its because they would cost too much. They would be too expensive. The tooling would be too complicated. No one would buy them. Just the mear mention of such an idea would unequivocally prove one to be a fool.

I have a new style Abelo with a little blue feeder in the top. Very happy with it.

Costly. adjective involving a lot of loss or damage

What a preposterous idea. Who would have thunk it!

Do you know where or whom this style of hive originated from?

Working on another beehive model. I call it Pipe on a Hive. It's basically a pipe on a hive. The idea is that the bees can only enter and exit from the top of a 9 foot pipe. That way, bees won't be getting up in your grill when in the garden. Any thoughts? See picture below.

There is a space under this lid. If a bee got under while putting the lid on I wouldn,t want it to die.

Well you sure are a better better bee keeper than me. I am humbled.

re. escape. dont you ever get bees trapped under ther lid? Miller

There is nothing challenging or costly about tooling for parts like this.

Like what BigAshW says. put a feeder in it. Escapes to let trapped bees escape but also keeps the 'look' of the wbc. Didn't William invent those cone escapes?

Improve this poly hive design. Also let me know if a hive like this would be of interest if it were available. The idea was to replicate the WBC in a polyhive form. Because reasons. And it looks good. And its way more practical than an original WBC. I have gone with a solid bottom board in this...

Makes sense. Dividing up the weight with a number of bricks. Its not easy for me to judge because I am quite lifty. I like the National poly hive that I own from a practical point of view (with the possible exception of it being peppered with vent holes) and I love the iconic WBC look. So...

This is my 2nd year of bee keeping so I dont't know the half of it. I added the vent hole/enterance because I assume that the poly manufacturers know something I dont. The escape of that sort is found on traditional WBC's so I added it and so bees can escape. My national poly stays plugged also...