All the detail is in the Abelo catalogue at: https://www.abelo.co.uk/wp-content/u...logue-2016.pdf Reading this it seems polystyrene bungs are supplied, as well as plastic ventilation plugs, for the crown board circles. Odd that the Abelo website page on these is so light on detail and has some incorrect pics showing lipped boxes.
I didn't find these hives on eBay (only something similar with fewer extras).
Fatshark, the "white blocks" are optional extra entrances: 2 per brood box and one per super, for ventilation or open. These present interesting ready-made options for colony increase ... could run a brood box as 2 nucs, separated but warmed above its "mother" brood box. Horsley board could become redundant with use of Qx, crown board and these entrances.
I first read about this hive in an ad in the BBKA magazine.
Prakel (corrected to "Prattle" by spell-checker!): maybe the side wall thickness gives way in favour of better insulation above. I've puzzled that Swienty polyhives have such thick side walls but little thickness in roofs (and no insulated crown boards).One question, if Swienty boxes take ten frames and these take eleven are they using thinner side walls or is it theoretically possible to actially fit 11 into a Swienty box?
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