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Beekeeping Starter Kits (Best Kits By Budget 2023)
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Beekeeping Starter Kits (Best Kits By Budget 2023)

Essential beekeeping starter kits should include a deep hive box with a bottom board, covers, frames, foundation, essential tools, and some protective gear. As your colonies grow, you will need additional hive components and supplies available in a more expensive beginning beekeeping kit.

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Beginning Beekeeping Supplies – This Is What You Need!
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Beginning Beekeeping Supplies – This Is What You Need!

Essential beginning beekeeping supplies include reference books, a hive, protective clothing, a bee smoker, hive tools, and bee feeding supplies. And, of course, bees. Beekeeping supplies that are optional or not immediately needed include a bee brush, mite treatments, and honey extraction equipment.

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Where To Place A Beehive (What You Need To Know)
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Where To Place A Beehive (What You Need To Know)

Before spending a lot of money on honey bees and beekeeping equipment, make sure you have a suitable location beekeeping. Here’s are some things you should consider when deciding where to place a beehive.

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Gifts For Beekeepers (37 Every Day & Unique Ideas)
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Gifts For Beekeepers (37 Every Day & Unique Ideas)

There are dozens of potential gifts for beekeepers in your life ranging from relatively inexpensive tools and books to top of the line equipment. And there are plenty of items that beekeepers might not think to buy themselves but would love receiving.

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Protect Beehives From Bears(How To Set Up An Electric Fence)
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Protect Beehives From Bears
(How To Set Up An Electric Fence)

Bears can wreak havoc on your bees and hives. An electric fence is the best way to protect your apiary. This is how electric fences work and how to set one up.

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Why Are Bee Suits White? (Bee Suits Can Be Other Colors!)
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Why Are Bee Suits White? (Bee Suits Can Be Other Colors!)

Bee suits are white because honey bees are reputed to dislike dark colors as a defense mechanism against predators such as bears, raccoons, and skunks. Equally important, white absorb less heat from the summer sun than darker colors, making whites suits more comfortable for the beekeeper than a darker suit.

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What Is A Beehive? (A Home For Honey Bees)
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What Is A Beehive? (A Home For Honey Bees)

A beehive is a manufactured structure that mimics a natural honey bee nesting site. Beekeepers use them to manage honey bees and harvest hive products like honey. Bee hives are typically made of wood though other materials may be used. Beehives consist of either vertically stacked boxes or a single, horizontal cavity.

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Best Bee Smoker Fuels | Fuels For Smoking Bees
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Best Bee Smoker Fuels | Fuels For Smoking Bees

The best bee smoker fuels are nontoxic organic items that smolder and do not burn quickly. Many options are free (or cheap), including cotton fibers, burlap, dry pine needles or grass, and herbs. Suppliers sell fuel. Never use chemicals, treated material, plastic, or rubber that can harm you or the bees.

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When To Add Honey Supers | How To Super A Beehive
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When To Add Honey Supers | How To Super A Beehive

Begin to add honey supers when a beehive’s upper box is about 75% full of drawn comb with brood or food. If it is early in the season, bees can use the new box for brood. If honeyflow has begun (or is imminent), using a queen excluder keeps brood out of the added honey super, reserving it for ripening nectar.

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Foundationless Frames (Foundationless Beekeeping Basics)
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Foundationless Frames (Foundationless Beekeeping Basics)

Foundationless frames are beehive frames with only a top bar starter strip for bees to begin drawing wax. Without a base, foundationless frames provide a more natural building space where bees can determine cell sizes on their own. However, foundationless frames require proper setup and handling to avoid potential problems.

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I’m Melanie Howard. My husband, Jim, and I want to share with you everything we’ve learned about beekeeping since we were newbies 7 years ago. Maybe the ups and downs we’ve experienced can help you along the way.

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