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Nuc Bottom Board - Ventilated Varroa base - Disc entrance - 6F

SKU: HDBV2NUCDD

Adaptable and functional UV resistant bottom board with a low profile for stability and sturdiness

  • Smart 6 Frame Nuc Bottom board (6 Frame full depth)
  • Straight sides and ends for easy palletising, and strapping multiple hives (3 x Smart 6 Nucs = 2 x 10 frame hives)
  • Locator slots through centre of the base for hive strappers.
  • Disk entrance - Easy turn, easy access dials (entrance size configuration easily changeable)
  • Vented bottom boards can reduce varroa loading and be utilised as part of a varroa management system.
  • Pest checking tray- available separately here.
  • Dimensions: 53.4 x 27.1 x 6 cm
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Nuc Bottom Board - Ventilated Varroa base - Disc entrance - 6F

    Smart 6 Nuc Bottom Board
  • Easy turn, easy access dials-  designed for pest and robbing control. 
  • Straight sides and ends for easy palletising, and strapping multiple hives. 3 per pallet
  • Screw holes for securing to pallets.
  • Locator slots through centre of base for hive strappers.
  • Locating lugsto secure your nuc box, and rigid design to prevent bowing
  • Deep floor with great venting (21% ventilation), with the ability for venting to be closed off with pest tray.
  • Disk entrance for a choice of entrance options (disk colour may vary)
  • Dimensions: 53.4 cm x 27.1 cm x 6 cm
  • Size - 3 units fit the space of 2 x 10 frame bottom boards and can be interchanged easily.
  • Expansion - ideal for expanding hive numbers and can be used with standard 10 frame honey supers if you want to keep the colonies in Nucs

Vented bottom boards can reduce varroa loading and be utilised as part of a varroa management system.

  • Modelling has shown Varroa control with venting can be up to 30% over the course of a year. This control does not work in isolation and needs to be used with other treatment options.
  • The mechanism does not actively treat mites but takes advantage of natural mite fall.
  • It is estimated that 20% of phoretic mites fall off the bee in their first 72 hours.
  • With vented bottom boards, mites that fall off the bees fall out of the hive, as opposed to solid floors where the mites can climb back up from the floor and reattach themselves to the bee.
  • This reduction may seem small, but it will decrease the varroa stress load on the hive.
  • This may be particularly beneficial when mite treatments cannot be applied E.g. long summer honey flows.
  • Modeling has shown that through the period between two synthetic treatments mite drop through vented bottom boards can lead to a reduction of up to a third in phoretic mites.

Reduced mite loadings lead to healthier hives, colonies under less mite stress, reduced PMS and reduced hive losses.

Keep in mind that this is no substitute for high efficacy synthetic or organic treatments. Mite levels should be monitored and treated accordingly.

Research on vented boards reducing varroa mites can be viewed here to watch 


Dimensions - view here

A pest checking tray is available separately here (1 x 10 frame pest checking tray required per smart 6 nuc bottom board)

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  • Delivery may be delayed during peak season.

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