Ergo
Series
Advanced hive covering all beekeeping needs
Built as a complete modular system compatible with most standard hive sizes, Ergo hives are ideal for larger apiaries and designed for easy, low-maintenance care. With high-performance insulation and smart ventilation, they help colonies adapt to changing environmental conditions and reduce winter losses. Equipped with versatile IPM bottom trays, the system empowers beekeepers in the chemical-free fight against Varroa, supporting healthier bees and more sustainable beekeeping.
What makes it
Stand out
System Solutions
Ergo hives offer a complete, system-based solution for both commercial and hobbyist beekeeping. Their modular design, paired with a wide range of compatible components and accessories, allows for full customization to suit both the beekeeper’s preferences and the specific conditions of the apiary. The system enables efficient colony management, simplifies the creation of nucleus colonies (nucs), and supports queen rearing practices. Ergo hives are available in sizes compatible with most standard frames and hive systems.
Designed to streamline
beekeepers’ work
Ergonomic IPM bottom boards
Screened bottom body and
drawer to combat varroa naturally.
Built-in pollen trap with smart tray for streamlined harvesting
and post-collection storage.
Ventilation holes to ensure proper airflow into the hive.
Entrance reducers with adjustable openings and full closure
option for transport; optional landing board.
Inner cover-integrated
Top feeders
- Designed for simultaneous use of liquid feed and fondant
- Bee-safe design prevents drowning in syrup while letting bees clean emptied feeders
- Ventilation holes adjustable by the bees themselves
- Propolis trap available as an optional extra
- Built into the cover to enable year-round feeding without disrupting the bees
Certified
materials
The main hive elements are secured with the Apimaye’s lock and latch mechanism, which also serves as a carrying handle. This latch system allows multiple hives to be connected for safe and convenient transportation. Featuring a two-level closing system, the latch ensures that accessories like queen excluders do not compromise hive safety during transit.
Constructed from AISI 304 stainless steel—a food-grade, corrosion-resistant material that is both durable and easy to clean.
Active
Ventilation
The hive’s ventilation system begins at the screened bottom board and extends to adjustable top cover vents, allowing bees to autonomously regulate airflow based on colony needs. This controlled ventilation prevents drafts, moisture buildup, and mold development inside the hive. Air circulates upward along the hive walls, stabilizing temperature and humidity around the brood cluster to support colony health and protect it from environmental stressors.
Thermal
Insulation
The innovative all-around double-layer insulation ensures optimal thermal conditions inside the hive year-round. In the face of climate change and increasingly unpredictable weather, enhanced thermal insulation is crucial to protect bee colonies from temperature extremes. Maintaining stable temperatures inside the hive during both cold and hot seasons results in healthier colonies after winter, more efficient activity in summer, and continuous protection from harsh conditions—factors that together enhance overall apiary performance.
High End
Materials
Apimaye manufactures hives built to last, crafted with great care for quality and durability, ensuring sustainability through long-lasting performance. Our food-contact certified (Food Codex) HDPE is safe for bees and honey. Additionally, hives are easy to clean and durable, thanks to a special formula that provides UV resistance. Latches are made of AISI 304 stainless steel—acid-proof and food-contact certified.
The insulation material filling the walls and outer cover has a thermal conductivity coefficient of K7.
Ergo
Polyee
ApiMaye’s mission is to let bees and beekeepers focus on honey production by eliminating time-consuming issues that slow colony performance. Ergo Polyee beehives combine thermally insulated boxes with numerous small innovations that together make a significant difference in daily apiary operations. Crafted from high-quality HDPE polymer certified for food contact (Food Codex compliant), they are completely safe for bees and honey, easy to clean—even with pressure washers at up to 60 °C—and support overall hive hygiene and colony health.
ApiMaye’s specially developed HDPE blend includes antistatic additives to reduce dust and static, is UV-resistant, and fully recyclable, ensuring a 25–30 year product lifecycle while minimizing environmental impact.
Ergo Polyee hives are available in the most popular frame sizes, including Dadant and Langstroth, and are complemented by a wide range of accessories, creating a flexible, long-lasting system suitable for both full-size and nucleus colonies.
This combination of durability, innovation, and sustainability makes Ergo Polyee a reliable choice for modern beekeepers.
Ergo
Woodee
Designed for traditional beekeepers who value the natural appeal of wooden hives, Ergo Woodee blends classic materials with modern polymer hive technology. The brood box, crafted from quality-assured wood, is paired with a thermally insulated top cover and a multifunctional hygienic IPM bottom board. All Ergo Woodee parts are fully compatible with the Ergo system, allowing seamless use of wooden and polymer components—for example, placing an Ergo Woodee super on an Ergo Polyee brood box, or vice versa—secured firmly with the integrated latch system.
To further expand its functionality, Ergo Woodee can be equipped with Ergo smart beehive accessories such as feeders, propolis collectors, or pollen traps—practical tools to optimize colony management and maximize productivity.
Thanks to the use of carefully selected, wood with optimal parameters, supported by an active ventilation system, bees benefit from stable and healthy living conditions throughout the year. At the same time, combining durable natural materials with reusable modular components makes Ergo Woodee not only practical and long-lasting but also a sustainable choice that supports long-term beekeeping.
DIY
ERGO
A mix-and-match solution for passionate beekeepers, experimenters, and those whose apiaries require a more tailored approach. These pre-composed hive kits include the essential components of ApiMaye’s Ergo system for self-assembly.
Beekeepers can expand them with additional elements from the Ergo system to build a customized hive that meets their preferences or the unique needs of their apiary.
Ergo
Woodee
Wooden hive bodies, complemented by a wide range of Ergo system accessories.
ERGO
POLYEE
Advanced system solution with a wide range of accessories, available in various frame standards.
ERGO
DIY
Order your own configuration of Ergo system hive parts or choose one of our starting kits.
OUR
Awards
Apimaye has been recognized for its innovative approach since the very beginning. Defender hive was the first of our hives that won an Apimondia medal in 2011, and since then many of our products have been honored with gold, silver, and bronze awards. We believe our method, a combination of engineering expertise and close cooperation with beekeepers, is the key to real innovation. Guided by their insights, we continue to refine even the smallest details that make apiary work easier.
