
Tools
Being a beekeeper requires a lot of tools to maintain your hive. Just think of chisels, smokers, tobacco, window pliers, brushes, and numerous tools for marking queens.
Being a beekeeper requires a lot of tools to maintain your hive. Just think of chisels, smokers, tobacco, window pliers, brushes, and numerous tools for marking queens.
Being a beekeeper requires a lot of tools to maintain your hive. Just think of the following items;
- Cabinet chisels or frame lifters to lift your frames and open your cabinet.
- Smokers and tobacco or smoke sticks to smoke your bees.
- Frame tongs to lift your frames out of the hive and tension straps to secure your hives for transport if you want to travel with your bees.
- Brushes to sweep the bees off your frames when you want to do a check or harvest honey.
- Marking the queens with marker tubes to set the correct colour of the queen.