Beekeeping and Bee Hive Supplies

Our Hand-Crafted Adirondack Woodware

You can buy the same hand-crafted bee hive boxes used in our apiary. Bee boxes, or hives, are designed to encourage the health of the bee society. It’s also important that it allows the beekeeper to remove the honey from the hive with the least disruption possible. The hive consists of a bottom board, hive body, frames, foundation and cover. The frames with foundation are placed in the body for the bees to store honey, pollen and for the queen to lay eggs. Supers with frames and foundation are added for the bees to store surplus honey and pollen. All joints are glued and hand nailed. All woodware is handcrafted when assembled.

The primary component to any hive is the deep hive body.
We offer assembled deep hive bodies with frames, painted for $70.
Choose between: Wooden frames with wax-coating foundation or plastic frames.
Hive bodies, assembled, without frames, and painted are $30.

Pricing List

South Bay Apiaries has the supplies beekeepers need to build their beehive and start beekeeping today. Wood is treated and primed. Pieces are available painted with two coats of white paint upon request.

• Start-up Kit: $550—Includes 3 deep hive bodies frames included, bottom board, inner cover, outer cover with nucleus colony installed
• Nucleus colonies: $220 (plus $30 box deposit)
• Assembled deep hive body with frames wax coated plastic: $70/Painted $75
• Assembled Wax coated plastic foundation frames: $5
• Assembled Deep or medium hive body (no frames): $25 / Painted $30
• Unassembled deep or medium hive body: $21
• Bottom board: $20 Assembled
• Nucleus boxes: $25 Assembled and primed
• Migratory 5 frame Nucleus colony box: $40 Assembled and painted
• Inner cover: $18 Assembled
• Permadent wax coated foundation: $1.50 per sheet
• Top cover: $30
• Unassembled frames: $14 case of ten (Deep)
• 1lb. glass jars with lids: .40 cents each
• Duragilt foundation: Pack of 10 for $18 (Deep)
• Assembled frames: Pack of 10 for $30 (Deep)
• Mite-Away-Formic Acid treatments: $15

Shipping available for an extra fee. Based on location.

WE DELIVER!
Hive boxes and Nucs are available for delivery and installation. on Long Island.

Contact South Bay Apiaries with any questions at 631-475-8315 or nordstar@southbayapiaries.com.

Now accepting orders for the 2024 Bee Season

Italian Bee Package: TBA — Availability around mid-April. Includes nurse bees, forager bees, guard bees, and drone bees.

Bee Nucleus Colony: $225 
($225 + $30 Nuc box deposit) $125 deposit is required.
Deposits are being taken for nucleus colonies to be available end of April beginning of May 2024.
Customers have the option to transfer to their own Nuc hive boxes for free. We also now offer delivery and/or transfer of nucs for negotiated fee depending on location.
All nucs are NY State Inspected.

New Bees: TBA — 5 well-developed frame Nucleus colonies are available for early May pickup.

Bees are NYS Dept of Agriculture inspected.

Please order early!
Send deposits/payments to:
DALE JOHN WILLIAMS
129 Ohio Avenue
Medford, NY  11763-2642
(Please include phone number on checks.)

All orders are “first come, first serve basis.”