Wire Crimper Red

Much lighter than metal excluders which makes them easier to carry, install and collect at the apiary. Perfect gaps that do not injure the bees. Just 3 mm thick so that the hive body connectors can be fastened. Resistant to oxalic or formic acid, or even steam (up to 119 °C).

Specifications

• Available Dimensions:

420x506 mm (10 Frames Langstroth & Dadant)

450x506 mm

460x460 mm

430x430 mm

420x420 mm

342x310 mm

342x343 mm

367x506 mm

* Smaller custom dimensions can also be made.

• Thickness: 3 mm
• Gap dimensions: 4.2 x 19.5 mm
• Weight: 260.00 g
• Items / Package: 50
• Package Dimensions: 52 x 44 x 14 cm
• Package Weight: 13 kg
• Items / Pallet: 2000
• Material: Polypropylene Food-grade

An innovative new ANEL Product! This is the New Hybrid ANEL Entrance, Ventilation & Feeding Plug.
Multiple uses:
• Ventilation screen and/or feeding plug.
• If you rotate the mechanism, with a simple CLICK, it turns into a small safety entrance for bees.
• Remove the mechanism altogether and you can use it as big entrance or a feeding plug.
To apply it in your beehive you will need:
• A drill with a 43mm hole saw
• Four 3,5 x 13mm screws
• A Polyurethane Sealant
We apply the PU sealant in the inner surface of the plug. We follow the same steps for a wooden beehive. The new ANEL plug is of larger diameter than the previous model. To replace the older model with the new plug you will need a 43mm cylindrical drill. The new plug comes with a hinge and opens sideways. It is advised to open it with a hive tool while holding it from the top, or by hand using our thumbnails. Due to opening sideways the plug cannot be closed by the wind. Position the lid in 90 degrees from the body to remove it. This is very useful because a potential thief will need special equipment.
The new ANEL Entrance, Ventilation & Feeding Plug can be used in many ways. As a feeding plug on the top cover, as ventilation or entrance in the frontside / backside of the top cover, as a small entrance on the side of the beehive protecting the bees from potential enemies, as ventilation on the sides, or as a big hive entrance. An alternative beehive entrance is very important. In case of plunder we leave the small entrance open so that only few bees can come in and the intruders can be handled. We close the front doors and lead the bees on the alternative entrance which the already know and use. For even more drastic measures if we want to prevent plunder, we just seal the plugs on the top cover.
Some other examples of how to use the New ANEL Entrance, Ventilation & Feeding Plug. During spring if we want to use a second hive body, it is very useful to have a second entrance in the upper hive body for beehive decongestion. A second entrance also helps bees collect honey easier, especially if we use a queen excluder.
Also, during spring if we have a ten-frame beehive that is in the process of swarming, we can divide it and have two independent swarms. Half of the frames can be transferred to a new hive body. We use a fabric cover to prevent pheromones from mixing and a queen excluder to keep the two queens away from each other. We place the new hive body on top. The original swarm uses the front entrance, while the new one uses the entrance on the back.
If we want to have 2 swarms in a single beehive, we can provide them two independent entrances from both sides. We keep them divided in two with the help of the ANEL vertical beehive divider. We can also have 3 swarms in the same beehive with the use of 2 dividers. This swarm uses the entrance on the right, this one uses the entrance on the left and the middle swarm uses the entrance on the back. In that case we will need a top feeder to keep them separated and feed them independently with syrup or candy.

Amazing strength, fit for tough use. With five points for hive body stabilization. With bases of special non-slip material, screwed to the bottom, so that the hives do not slip during transportation by truck and the bases remain attached. Accompanied by very practical transportation-protection doors.

Can be connected with the hive body with four different ways:
1. With adjustable front and rear fasteners.
2. With wire fasteners right and left.
3. Screw-in. With special connectors so that the bottom can be screwed permanently on the hive body thus transforming into a brood chamber with non-atachable bottom board.
4. With attachment straps which can be removed after beehive placement to discourage thieves.

What are the advantages of a ventilated plastic bottom board?
• Bees can keep the hive clean very easily.
• When applying treatments for varroa the parasites fall down under the hive thus treating the hive more effectively.
• Ventilation means less humidity and less humidity means fewer chances that nozema will spread in the hive.