1. Naturally built wax comb on movable and interchangeable topBARS™ allows for healthier honeybees and cleaner honey.
   1. Angled and standardized rough cut poplar seasoned, and air dried timber topBARS™ encourage honeybees to propolize mill grooves on angled surface, helping wax comb to adhere naturally and more securely to topBAR™ minimizing wax comb break away.
   2. Rough cut seasoned poplar and pine timbers provides better thermoregulation within colony and hive cavity from cold, heat, moisture and ventilation.
   3. Adjustable and removable ventilation board helps regulate hive drafts and ventilation.
   4. Viewing Window with wooden removal shutter
   5. The hinged screen bottom allows for the hive steward to practice Integrated Best Management for monitoring and easy winter and spring screen bottom board clean out fallen hive debris and expired honeybees to minimize pathogen build-up for overall health of the colony.
   6. Multiple hive entry ports with adjustable openings and color coded provides for honeybee easy hive entry recognition minimizing drifting into the wrong hive cavity. The hive entry port disk is uniquely colored to maximize honeybee’s ability to locate its unique home. Based on the principals laid out by the late Dr. Karl Von Frisch’s pioneering work on honeybee vision, the Thomas Hybrid Hive entry port disk are colored violet, blue, and orange and/or yellow, are the most recognizable colors to honeybees. Von Frisch’s work was instrumental in establishing both that honeybees can see specific colors, but also their behaviors can be modified. Each color helps honeybees narrow in on their hive entrance opening. Adjustable opening sizes mimic natural hive entry size desired by honeybees (Dr. Thomas Seeley researched preferred honeybee cavity opening and their sizes desired by honeybee colonies).  Multiple colors entry port discs allows the Thomas Hybrid Hive™ cavity to be adjustable and accommodating to multiple colonies. Each colony entry opening function can be easily regulate and opening varying in size: from Queen rearing colony, nucleus colony, colony divides simply by minimize and maximize cavity volume by way of the movable expander boards.
   7. Movable expander boards are solid or solid with an opening that maybe cork to provide for easy movement of honeybees to expand into designated cavity size. Especially helpful when combining two or splitting colonies.
   8. Retractable, removable bottom board and washable Integrated Pest Management (IPM) board help reduce pathogen build up in the hive cavity with monitoring and clean up an ease.
   9. Angled entrance board protects cavity entry port from in climate weather and entry blockage.
   10. Securable roof to the hive bodies allows for colony security. Roof style deflects unfavorable weather and rough wood interior allow moisture to be wicked away from colony. Langstroth 8 frame deep and /or medium bodies fit securely onto either end of the Thomas Hybrid Hive™ body. The two Roofs, horizontal (Thomas Hybrid Hive™) roof and the vertical transition box roof (Langstroth Hive-pitched or flat telescoping roof) minimize cumbersome handling of one large roof.
   11. For easy viewing of colony without disturbance honeybees on topBARS™, glass viewing window into colony, by way of a removable and securable wood shutter covers double strength recycled glass window opening securely.
   12. Four steel legs, each 56 inches tall, anchors the Thomas Hybrid Hive™ into ground footers, providing hive stability, security and adjustableTH²™  hive height.  We also have an four screw hole steal plate weld attachment to the bottom of each leg (additional cost), should hive legs need to be anchored onto a solid (concrete or  wood) base.
   13. External glass quart size jars on TH² Waterboards™ allow for secure and easy access for water foraging honeybees and honeybee stewards monitoring colony water intake with minimized colony disturbance. Providing honeybee access to fresh water minimizes water foraging honeybees the distance and the colony exposure to contaminated non-point source polluted waters.  Each TH² Waterboard™ has a water weeping hole preventing water build-up in the bottom of TH² Waterboard well. Each glass mason jar has a perforated cap which is removable, replaceable and washable. Ball Mason Jars are made in the USA.
   14. Polished Aluminum TH2 TopBAR Hangers are attached to two legs and are foldable into an upward closed position when not in use. 

TopBARS™ are interchangeable into Langstroth hive bodies (8 or 10 frame) and back again into the Thomas Hybrid Hive™. Transferrable equipment means more time, money saved and easy accommodating honeybee needs while minimizing colony stress.

The Thomas Hybrid Hive™ was designed and developed by Meme Thomas for stewarding healthy and productive honeybees with all natural methods and practices.

The Thomas Hybrid Hive™ is made from fallen seasoned popular and pine timbers, air dried, milled and constructed by the careful hands of the Thomas families.   Quality assurance is in the name! 

       *All materials used in and on the Thomas Hybrid Hive™ are made and/or sourced from family owned        

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