Bee Equipment For Your Beehive

The Backyard Beekeeper - Revised and Updated: An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Keeping Bees in Your Yard and Garden In order to materialize your dream to raise bees at your home or garden you need to buy some elementary bee equipment to get the work done. Bee equipment generally refers to bee keeping equipment but it can also be any equipment or tools that can be used for honey extraction, repair or maintenance.




The primary and essential part of all bee related equipment is the beehive. Beehive is a manmade equipment used for domesticating honey bees. Also it's to be noted that only the species' 'eastern honey bee' and the 'western honey bee 'are domesticated by humans ever since. Hence beehives are exclusively for these species'. You would find five supers inside every beehive. These supers are the core part of the beehive. These are the places where bees store honey and also raising their offspring. Once these supers are live there would be nine to ten frames on each super. Hives with shallow supers or deep supers are available in the market. A drawback of deep supers is that when full it weighs around 50 kilograms. Hence, when deep supers are used, take precautions that it will not be moved by anybody around or by pets. 'Spacers' are also used in beehive to ensure equidistant frame positions.



Next interesting equipment you will be using is the smoker. Bee smoker is used mainly for harvesting the honey. This is used since ancient time to calm honeybees. Typically it's used to generate smoke by smoldering fuels. This unit consists of a funnel, combustion chamber as well as the bellows. Generally majority of the bee raisers still use burlap as the fuel as it ignite fast and smolders smoke. Although corn cobs are widely used as fuel by users burlap holds an upper hand. The bellows keep the smoke going once the fuel is lit in the combustion chamber and the funnel directs the smoke to the beehive forcing the bees to move out of the beehive.



Other interesting bee equipment is the fume board. A fume board or fumer board also serves almost the same purpose to remove bees out of the beehive. Fumer boards consist of chemicals instead of smoke in the bee smoker that expels bees out of the beehive.





Bee brush and metal hive tool are also indispensable bee equipment. Bee brush is used to remove bees to observe or examine frames while metal hive tool is an all-rounder used to open the beehive, to clean the frames or to separate the hive units. Other equipment includes suits and veils used to access bee colonies while harvesting. Extractors are also important equipment used by beekeepers. There are a variety of extractors available in the market for honey extraction.



You can get a wide range of equipments with interesting prices across the web. The competition in the field makes suppliers to serve their prospective clients with excellent bee equipments at competitive prices. Also it's advisable to check the reviews available for every bee keeping equipment ensuring best value for your money.



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Colton's improved patent bee-hive: With instructions for making and using; together with directions for managing bees in the manner most profitable to their owner

The Backyard Beekeeper - Revised and Updated: An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Keeping Bees in Your Yard and Garden