Expanding the Hive is a small box expansion for Apiary that is a more stuff style expansion. It comes in a small recyclable brown cardboard box with a sticker attached for product and sales information. All components from this expansion fit in the base game insert.

Apiary: Expanding the Hive adds to the variety of the core game with components all designed to fit inside the original insert and a comprehensive appendix that covers the core game and the expansion. It features a few bigger additions (7 new hive mats 15 unique frames and 15 new seed cards) along with a greater variety of tiles and tokens plus a few updated components.