Customer Reviews for VEVOR Bee Hive Medium Box Starter Kit, 100% Beeswax Coated Natural Fir Wood, Langstroth Beehive Kit with 10 Frames and Foundations, Transparent Acrylic Bee Windows for Beginners and Pro Beekeepers

This box is so nice. Great quality. I can’t wait to start using it.

Our neighbors are professional bee keepers and have acres of lavender just for the bees. This will benefit MY bees as well, learning with and using the VEVOR Starter Kit for my very first hive. Under the guidance of the pretty good instructions which come with the kit, I was able to assemble this hive in about 30 minutes. All the pieces were cut correctly and fit together as intended. Because the hive is wax coated, it should be readily acceptable to the bees once they are introduced when the weather gets warmer. Excited to get started with this deluxe 10 frame kit! Recommend this solid, beeswax coated hive starter kit.

I'm a newbie at bee keeping and this is my first hive. I do know quality when I see it amd this hive box is very well made. Everything fits together perfectly and has good instructions. For the money this seems like a good starter for bee keeping.

Pros. Very pretty looking beehive. Joints are accurate and very tightly fitting. Cons. It really should come with a Varroa mesh floor and tray. It should be stated more clearly that it is (unlike most Langstroth beehives) a bottom bee-space as opposed top bee-space hive. It should have the option of buying a hive consisting of one deep box along with two or three medium boxes, instead of two of each.

Pros. Very pretty looking beehive. Joints are accurate and very tightly fitting. Cons. It really should come with a Varroa mesh floor and tray. It should be stated more clearly that it is (unlike most Langstroth beehives) a bottom bee-space as opposed top bee-space hive. It should have the option of buying a hive consisting of one deep box along with two or three medium boxes, instead of two of each.

Looks greak, good wood quality and very generous with was protection. I did no used the nails provided and went with compressed air nails instead. I will not use the windows also. I find this useless. I bought because the price was better than hive with less options. Bees do no like to built on the frames so I would if you have the beewas and time, melt and add a thin layer of real beewax on it.

Good hive for price

These Bee Hives were of OK quality. We had issues with the frame assembly because on the shallow frames, the foundations would not stay in. Contacted VEVOR and they quickly sent a video on how to fix the problem by shaving down a piece on each frame to make them work. The solution did solve the problem however it was VERY time consuming and a big disappointment.... Other than that, the hives seem ok. Our bees have moved in and everything is going well...

The hive is nice overall but some things could be improved: the acrylic window needs more than just 4 screws to fit nicely, it warps a bit and there is space trough bees could crawl out (i fixed this myself by adding more screws than just the 4 in each corner). The bottom board should be upgraded to AV screen board (I had to buy this separately because this decreases varoa by 15% and its a must in my opinion). The frames are nice but the tops that touch each other should be upgraded to square/triangle top so the bees cant glue them together that much. Also when you are assembling the frames make sure you add 1 horizontal nail in each corner so that when you take out the heavy honey filled frames you don't end up with just the top frame board in your hands, the frames need horizontal nails which the assembly guide doesn't show and the instructions should be upgraded with this. The roof is really nicely made and the hive overall is very pleasant to the eye. One more thing, if you got some bees wax at hand while assembling frames, make sure to "paint" the frame foundations with more wax so the bees accept the plastic foundations more easily. Overall, a nice hive ready to go missing only AV bottom board and some kind of feeder to support newly installed package bees.

The deep and the super both parts were hard to connect I had to use force almost broke it please work on fixing it and also messing some small nails for the frames