10-Frame Beehive Starter Kit – Wax-Coated Cedar Box, 20+ Tools, Veil & Queen Equipment

Everything to Start Your First Hive — Hive Body, Frames, Tools, and Protection. One Box.

Building a beehive setup from scratch means sourcing a brood box, frames, foundation, smoker, veil, hive tool, feeder, and queen equipment separately — from multiple vendors, at significantly higher total cost, with no guarantee of compatibility. This 10-frame beehive starter kit combines every component into one matched system: the hive structure, the frames, the wax foundation, and over 20 tools and accessories including full protection gear and queen management equipment.

Add bees. Start beekeeping.

The Hive Structure — Wax-Coated Cedarwood Built for Longevity

The brood box is constructed from heavy-duty cedarwood — the preferred wood for beehives because cedar is naturally rot-resistant, insect-resistant, and dimensionally stable through temperature and humidity cycles that cause cheaper pine boxes to warp and gap. The exterior is pre-coated with 100% natural beeswax, which serves two purposes: it protects the wood and it signals to incoming bees that this is a suitable, bee-familiar environment — accelerating colony establishment versus bare wood boxes.

Dimensions: 16-1/4″ × 19-7/8″ × 9-5/8″

The complete hive setup includes the brood box plus:

• ✅ Wax-coated solid bottom board
• ✅ Telescoping top cover
• ✅ Inner cover
• ✅ Queen excluder — keeps the queen in the brood box and out of honey supers
• ✅ Entrance reducer — critical for new colonies that can't yet defend a full-width entrance

10 Pine Frames + Beeswax Foundation — Ready for Comb Building

Ten unassembled deep brood frames cut from high-quality pine provide precise fitting and durability. Each frame comes with a food-grade black plastic foundation sheet dipped in 100% natural beeswax. The black foundation creates high contrast against white eggs and larvae — making it significantly easier to spot the queen, identify eggs during inspections, and detect brood disease early. The beeswax coating on the foundation gives bees an immediate chemical cue to begin drawing comb, reducing the time from installation to productive brood frames.

Complete Tool Set — 20+ Items Including Queen Management

Protection & Inspection:

• 🐝 Beekeeping veil — full head and face protection
• 🧤 Beekeeping gloves — sting-resistant hand protection
• 🪣 Bee smoker + 2 smoker pellets — essential for calm inspections
• 🖌️ Beekeeping brush — gentle bee movement without crushing

Hive Management:

• 🔧 J hook tool — standard hive tool for prying frames
• 🔧 L hook tool — alternate leverage geometry for tight frames
• 🏗️ Frame holder — keeps frames upright during inspection
• 🧹 Cleaning shovel — bottom board debris removal
• ⚙️ Multi-function tool
• 🍯 Bee feeder + entrance feeder — sugar syrup delivery for new colonies and dearth periods
• 2x Hive accessories

Honey Processing:

• 🔪 Uncapping knife — slices wax cappings for extraction
• 🍴 Uncapping fork — alternate capping removal technique
• 🛠️ Uncapping tool

Queen Management:

• 👑 2 types of queen cages — introduction and transport cages
• 🎯 Queen marking tube — restraint tool for safe marking
• 🔗 Spur wire wheel embedder — attaches foundation wire to frames

Why Wax-Coated Foundation Matters for Beginners

New colonies are slow to accept plain foundation — bees need to wax it themselves before committing to drawing comb, which delays colony establishment. Foundation pre-dipped in 100% natural beeswax bypasses this hesitation: bees recognize the beeswax scent immediately and begin drawing comb faster. For a first-year beekeeper establishing a package or nuc, faster comb building directly translates to faster colony growth and a higher chance of the colony reaching overwintering strength.

Specs at a Glance

• ✅ Hive type: 10-frame Langstroth deep brood box
• ✅ Box material: Heavy-duty cedarwood — naturally rot and insect resistant
• ✅ Box dimensions: 16-1/4″ × 19-7/8″ × 9-5/8″
• ✅ Box coating: 100% natural beeswax
• ✅ Frames: 10 deep pine brood frames (unassembled)
• ✅ Foundation: 10 black food-grade plastic sheets — beeswax dipped
• ✅ Hive accessories: Bottom board, top cover, inner cover, queen excluder, entrance reducer
• ✅ Tools: 20+ items including smoker, veil, gloves, uncapping set, queen cages

Who This Kit Is For

• 🌱 First-time beekeepers — everything needed to receive a package or nuc and establish a productive colony
• 🏡 Homesteaders — pollinator support for food gardens plus honey production from a single hive
• 🌿 Preppers — renewable honey supply, beeswax for candles and preservation, and pollination for off-grid food production
• 🎁 Gift buyers — complete starter kit for someone ready to begin beekeeping without the research and sourcing burden
• 🐝 Expanding beekeepers — adding a second hive with a matched setup

Pro tip: When assembling the pine frames, apply a thin bead of wood glue to each joint before nailing — this dramatically extends frame life by preventing the joints from loosening after repeated cycles of expansion and contraction inside the hive. Frames that loosen develop gaps where bees build burr comb and propolis bridges, making inspections harder and increasing risk of damaging brood during frame removal.

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