The invention discloses a composite-material hive with a color steel plate, which comprises a box body and a box cover, wherein the box body comprises an inner-layer box body, and color-steel-plate outer cladding is arranged outside the inner-layer box body. The hive uses the color steel plate as a shell, uses foam plastics and other suitable materials as a lining, uses a small amount of wood, has the advantages of reasonable structure, good performances of resisting rain and damp, preserving moisture and insulating heat, tightness, lightness, solidness, long life span, low manufacturing cost, little need for maintenance, convenient use and operation, and is suitable for the residential life of bees.