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Equipment & Tools

Beekeeping equipment and tools are essential for effective hive management and beekeeper safety. From suits and smokers to hive parts and DIY builds, this section helps you choose the right equipment and learn how to use it effectively.

  • Tools and supplies found in beehive start kits, hive parts, bee smoker and tools.

    Beehive Starter Kits

  • Three beekeepers around a hive wearing different types of beekeeping suits image.

    Finding the Right Bee Keeper Suit

  • Honey extractor in use.

    Why Choosing the Right Honey Extractor Matters

  • Unassembled deep bee box in a carton.

    How to Assemble a Beehive Box

  • Wooden 10 frame slatted rack for beehive sitting on bottom board.

    Slatted Racks for Beehives

  • Beehive cleats on standard hive box.

    Beehive Cleats

  • Two hive with shallow beekeeping supers on top.

    Beehive Boxes

  • Soft bee brush used by beekeeper to move bees.

    Bee Brush

  • Man building a beehive with wooden parts.

    How to Build a Beehive

  • Yellow, white and black plastic foundation pieces with beeswax blocks.

    Apply Beeswax to Plastic Foundation

  • Row of colorful painted beehives image.

    How To Paint a Beehive

  • Beekeeper in apiary with supplies and equipment.

    Beekeeping Equipment

  • Drip of honey placed on glass of honey refractometer.

    Honey Refractometers

  • Worker honey bees gathering food from bee feeder.

    Bee Feeders

  • Two types of hive tools laying on a box of frames.

    Hive Tools

  • Leather beekeeping gloves being worn to open a hive.

    Beekeeping Gloves

  • Beekeeper wearing snug fitting shoes with taped pant legs.

    Beekeeping Shoes

  • Dirty beekeeping gloves that need cleaned for season use.

    Clean Beekeeping Gloves

  • Wet honey extractor ready to be cleaned of honey residue and wax bits.

    How to Clean a Honey Extractor

  • Metal mouse guard on the entrance of a hive with bees entering.

    Why Do Beekeepers Need Mouse Guards?

  • Preparing to wash a dirty beekeeping suit image.

    Washing Bee Suits

  • Top Bar hive with bees and top bar filled across the open space.

    Top Bar Hives

  • Different sizes of beehives in a field.

    Common Types of Beehives

  • Frame spacer installed in bee hive box.

    Frame Spacing in Beehives

  • Beehive foundation sheets - beeswax and plastic foundation.

    Beehive Foundation

  • Group of beehive boxes and bees coming and going through hive entrance image.

    What Is A Beehive?

  • Glass walled observation bee hive.

    Observation Hives

  • Layens beehive in apiary with mouse guards on front.

    Layens Hive

  • Beekeeper lifting brood frame from beehive.

    Bee Brood Box

  • Deep beehive box with newly assembled frames image.

    How to Assemble Frames

  • Two used empty beehives on a stand.

    Used Beekeeping Equipment

  • how to decrystallize honey with a warming cabinet safely

    Build a DIY Honey Warming Cabinet

  • Beekeeper with a long langstroth horizontal hive.

    Horizontal Beehives

  • Homemade beehive made using hive plans for bottom image.

    Beehive Plans

  • Blue langstroth beehive of the correct dimensions for standard.

    Langstroth Hive Dimensions

  • Honey bees entering hive through opening in entrance reducer.

    Entrance Reducers for Beehives

  • Deep beehive box decorated with a hand painted design image.

    How to Decorate Your Painted Beehives

  • Bee smoker base taken apart for cleaning image.

    How to Clean A Bee Smoker

  • Beekeeper using pine straw to start a smoker image.

    How to Light a Bee Smoker

  • Beekeeper lighting smoker with pine needles as smoker fuel.

    Bee Smoker Fuel

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