Patent ID: 8801493

Claim:
A beehive including: a. two or more stacked boxes, each box having a box top and a box bottom with box sidewalls extending therebetween, with the box sidewalls: (1) defining an inner box circumference surrounding a box interior; (2) being at least substantially aligned within the stacked boxes; and (3) having one or more access ports therein opening onto the box interior, with the stacked boxes collectively defining a column wherein each of the boxes is removable and restackable within the column, whereby an order of the stacked boxes within the column may be varied; and b. a support post having a lower length and an opposing upper length, wherein: (1) the lowermost box in the column is supported along the upper length in cantilever fashion, with all or most of the column being situated on one side of a support post axis extending along the support post's lower length and upper length; and (2) the column is pivotally mounted with respect to the lower length to pivot the column between an at least substantially vertical orientation and an orientation closer to a horizontal orientation than to a vertical orientation.