Patent ID: 8430714

Claim:
A plastic modular beehive construction comprising: a. a pair of opposing side walls, each of said side walls including vertical edge portions with an inner face and an outer face extending therebetween, said side walls further including a plurality of pin receivers in selected locations on each outer face of said side walls; b. a pair of opposing end walls, each of said end walls including vertical edge portions with an inner face and an outer face extending therebetween, said end walls further including a plurality of pin receivers in selected locations on each outer face of said end walls; c. means for interconnecting said vertical edge portions of said side walls to respective vertical edge portions of said end walls, to form a four-sided beehive construction; and, d. a pair of side wall cover plates and a pair of end wall cover plates, each of said cover plates having an inner wall and including pins on said inner wall that correspond respectively with the locations of the pin receivers on said side walls and said end walls, one of said side wall cover plates being installed over a respective one of said side walls and one of said end wall cover plates being installed over a respective one of said end walls, by inserting said pins into said pin receivers, thereby defining an insulating dead air volume between each said outer face and each said inner wall of a respective cover plate.