CATDOLL : CATDOLL: What tools and equipment do you need to keep bees yourself?

1. What tools are needed to keep bees?

Beehive and beekeeping equipment

Bee breeding and management tools, in addition to beehives, also include nest foundations, honey dividers, nets, scrapers, bee brooms, queen excluders, feeders, queen attractants, etc. They are all necessary according to the scale of the bees. Other bee tools such as tools for producing royal jelly and bee pollen can be purchased as needed.

2. What tools are needed for beekeeping?

Bee hat.

When checking for bees, wear a hat to prevent bee stings on your face.

Fumigator: When checking bees and they are too aggressive, or when all the bees are noisy, or when harvesting honey, you can use a fumigator.

Watering can. If the bees are too aggressive, you can spray them with water. A watering can is also needed to merge bee colonies.

Honey knife. Used for harvesting honey.

Bee sweeper. When harvesting honey, you need to shake the bees into the beehive. If the bees cannot be shaken clean, you can use a bee sweeper to sweep the bees into the beehive.

Beehives are the most basic beekeeping tools. Their main function is to provide a place for the bee colony to reproduce and thrive during the beekeeping process. Due to different design ideas, there are two types of beehives: traditional beehives and movable frame beehives. Due to different suitable bee species, there are two types of bee hives: Chinese bee hives and Italian bee hives. In addition, movable frame beehives can be further subdivided due to the different number of honeycombs they can accommodate. Extended information: A trace amount of chemical information substance released by the bee gland is called pheromone, also called external hormone.

It is transmitted through the air or contact between individuals. For individuals of the same species, what is transmitted is a "language". The receiving individuals can understand the meaning of this "language", which affects their behavior or physiological responses.

Bees use sound and light to communicate.

The so-called sound is the sound of bees flapping their wings.

For example, the sound made by the vibration of the queen bee's wings is called "singing", and the "singing" is transmitted through the honeycomb. This is because the vibration of the queen bee's wings is driven by the vibration of the pectoral muscles. Since the pectoral muscles are close to the honeycomb, they spread the vibration sound waves. When the bees feel it, they react by stopping their activities.

3. A complete set of beekeeping tools?

To keep bees, you must first buy beehives, honeycomb sheets (wax sheets), and nest frames; then you need to buy a set of fully sealed clothing for beekeepers, a pair of gloves, a scraper, two filter funnels, containers for honey, and a set of honey shakers. The above supplies can be searched online and purchased online.

4. What tools are needed for beekeeping?

The tools needed for beekeeping are as follows:

Beehive: used to store bees.

Queen excluder: isolates the queen bee in a special area.

Covering: The hive is covered with a layer of canvas to keep it warm.

Nails and hammer: They are often needed to repair beekeeping tools.

Scraper: Very useful when inspecting bee colonies.

King Cage: Very useful when introducing the king.

Bee sweeper: used when taking honey or royal jelly, etc.

Nest frame: A wooden frame used to make beehives.

Nest foundation: There are worker bee nest foundation and drone bee pupa nest foundation, which are the key to making beehives.

Wire press: Very useful when making honeycomb foundation and beehive.

Beekeeping mask (face net): A gauze-like face net that covers the head when inspecting the bee colony.

Honey shaker: This is a very important beekeeping tool for extracting honey.

Smoke emitter: A bee device that prevents bees from communicating with each other.

Sieve for filtering honey: Use it to filter the taken out honey.

A clean container for storing honey: a honey barrel.

Royal cell: used to remove royal jelly.

Insect transfer needle: transfer the larvae to the royal cell.

Tweezers: used to remove larvae from the queen cells after 3 days.

Royal jelly bottle: Use this bottle to store the royal jelly.

Pollen remover: placed at the entrance of the beehive to deduct the pollen brought back by the bees.

Pollen sieve: sort the pollen and remove debris.