Hive-Five Beekeeping Equipment

Winner — Women in Innovation Award, and Creative Catalyst Award 2024, both from Innovate UK.

Clearer Board - coming 2027, backed by Hive-Five's Women in Innovation Award win

Women in Innovation Awards 2026 — Winner

Hive-Five founder Natalie Armstrong is a winner of the Women in Innovation Awards 2026, and also won the Creative Catalyst Award in 2024 — both from Innovate UK.

How Hive-Five started

In 2022, beekeeper Natalie teamed up with structural engineer Colin and CAD designer Michael to solve a problem every beekeeper knows — ill-fitting entrance blocks, gaffer-taped hives, and bees exposed to wasps, hornets and mice. The result was the Multi-Guard: one UK-made guard that replaces four separate hive entrance tools, designed and tested by beekeepers, for beekeepers.

Thanks to the incredible support we've had from our customers, and backing from Innovate UK, we're now developing our second innovation — due to launch in spring 2027.

Beehive entrance guards that protect against wasps, mice and robbing

The Hive-Five Multi-Guard is one UK-made hive entrance guard that replaces four separate tools: a mouse guard, a wasp guard, an entrance reducer and an entrance block. Slide in the screen you need, secure it, and swap it as the season changes. No screws and no tools.

It's UV-treated, built to last 5+ seasons, and designed by a beekeeper with a structural engineer. It fits standard National, Langstroth, Commercial, Dadant, Smith, Maisemore Poly and Hyde Long Hive entrances. It doesn't fit WBC hives, and we say so up front so you don't waste money.

Pick a different colour for each hive to help your bees tell them apart and cut down drifting. £29.99 each, or £79.99 for a set of three (free UK delivery on orders over £70).