Beginner beekeepers need: 1. Beehives 2. Bee gear 3. Bee species 4. Four-season management 5. Disease prevention and control. There is a lot of content and the space is limited, so some are briefly introduced.
1. Beehives, nest frames, nest foundations, honey shakers, scrapers, face nets, smoke sprayers, partition boards and other equipment. Standard beehive box. Currently, the beehive commonly used in my country is the 10-frame standard box, also known as Lang's beehive. It is composed of 10 frames, box body, box bottom, nest door panel, auxiliary cover, box cover and partition. Ten-frame box: Use non-deformable red and white pine, fir, blue poplar and other strong and durable wood. The thickness of the board shall not be less than 2 cm. The inner circumference of the box is 465 mm long, 380 mm wide, and 245 mm high. There is a buckle on the outside of the front and rear walls for easy transportation. A slot with a width of 8 mm and a depth of 25 mm is opened in the upper part of the inner side of the front and rear walls. An iron guide bar is nailed to the slot, and the upper edge of the guide bar is 17 mm away from the upper edge of the box. 2. Box cover a, beehive large cover b (auxiliary cover) gauze cover. 3. Bottom of the box.
2. Bee Tools There are many tools for bee feeding and management. In addition to beehives, there are also nest foundations, honey separators, surface nets, scrapers, bee brooms, king partitions, etc., which are all necessary. According to Depending on the scale of bees to be used, other bee equipment such as royal jelly production, bee pollen production, etc. can be purchased as needed.
1． Nest foundation The nest foundation is the foundation installed in the nest frame for bees to build the honeycomb. It is an artificial beeswax sheet pressed by a nest foundation machine. It has the base of the hive bottom and the hive wall. There are Italian honeycomb foundations for raising European bees; drone honeycomb foundations for producing drone pupae; and medium honeycomb foundations for raising middle bees. The spleen built using the nest foundation is neat, flat and strong, with few drone cells.
2. Mask: Mask is a tool used to protect the operator's head and neck from bee stings when managing bee colonies.
3. The scraper is a special tool for beekeeping. One end is a scimitar and the other is a flat knife. Use it to pry, scrape, and shovel things. Such as prying the auxiliary cover and scraping the dirt inside the hive and on the frame.
4. Smoke sprayer is a tool to subdue or drive away bees. It consists of two parts: chimney and cage. When using it, ignite paper, hay or linen, etc., put it into the chimney, cover the mouth, and agitate the bellows to make it emit thick smoke, but do not emit sparks.
5. Bee broom is mainly used to clean bees attached to hives, boxes, king frames and other bee equipment. It is a long fan-shaped brush with long hair. There are generally two rows of bristles, the bristles are 65 mm long and are made of white horsehair or horsetail hair that is not easy to absorb water.
6. A bee tool stool can be used to place management bee tools and record books. Use as a stool when inspecting the swarm.
7. Queen Partition Board The Queen Partition Board is a grid that controls the egg laying and activities of the queen bee. It strictly separates the bee colony into a breeding area and a honey production area so that larvae, pupae, pollen, etc. will not be mixed with honey, and worker bees can pass freely. The lead wire partition board made of No. 14 lead wire is strong, durable and not easy to deform. The gap between the two lead wires is about 4.4 mm, so the queen bee cannot pass through, but it is more expensive. The bamboo wire partition board is made of bamboo wire with a diameter of 7.5 mm. The king board is easy to obtain in southern my country, easy to process and low in cost, but has poor firmness and is easily deformed. The king board is divided into a flat king board and a frame king board. The flat partition board separates the breeding nest and the honey storage box to facilitate honey collection and improve the quality of honey. The frame-type queen partition board is inserted into the beehive and can control the queen bee to lay eggs on several spleens. Thank you for adopting, welcome to add 1301894558