Where Do You Set up Your Hives?

If you put pesticides in your grass it might not be a good idea to put your hives on the lawn.  If you do use pesticides in your grass, you can use a rock bed or you could use a place where no pesticides are.

You should have your bee hives facing the sun.  In the winter you should put wind blocking items near the hives so your bees are protected.  Bees Need Resources.  You should put a water supply near your bees.

Bee Keeping Supplies

This is a bee keeping table.  It is  useful to have it to clean out your bee hive.  Ours is pressure treated wood for the bottom and cedar planks for the top.  This type of wood will resist weather damage.  One of the members of the Lexingon 5 built this table!

This is a green drone frame.  This is where the queen will lay drone eggs.  It has bigger hexagons than the white frame.  It is plastic rubbed with bee wax.

This is a honey frame.  This is where they lay worker bee eggs and a new queen  if necessary.

There is another frame that is black and it is for the queen bee to lay eggs in.

This is a hive tool. The red part is for picking up the frame and the silver part is for scraping wax and propolis.

Bee Keeping Suit

The Suit

     We went to a local beekeeper to see what we should get.  I bought a large adult beekeeper suit for my dad and an extra small adult for me and mom to share.    You have to keep the suit clean because bees can smell the past stings of other bees.   If your suit is not clean and they smell that odor it will alert the bees to sting.    The suit is made of canvas so air can go through but stings won't hurt you. It feels comfy.

Gloves

           The glove have canvas from the elbow to the mid-upper arm.  They have netting from your wrist to your elbow.  The hands are very fitted so that you can work easily.  They are made of buck skin leather.  

Beekeeping School

If you are interested in Beekeeping you should check out Local Beekeeping Schools! Not only can you meet local beekeepers, but you can learn all that you need to about keeping bees yourself.

http://www.nhbeekeepers.org/