Beekeeping Supplies
Complete Wooden Beehives
• 10 frames
• 8 frames
• 5 frames
Also, triple honeycomb blocks, hive bodies,
Moving floors: closed of with net (wooden,plastic),
Frames (wired or with foundation)
Beeswax
• Foundations of 78-80gr, from 100% natural beewax, in packaging of 80 pieces
• Heavy type foundations of 100% pure beewax, in packaging of 100 pieces
• French foundation from 100% natural beewax, in packaging of 64 pieces
Queen Frame Excluder
(1,2,3 frames)
Honeycomb Electrical Embedder
Honeycomb Embedder
Frame Wire - 2 kg
• No 24
• No 25
• No 26
Soft Frame Wire, package of 1kg
Nickel Rivels
- Package of 1000 pieces
Wiring Board
Wiring Table
Burner for the cleaning and disinfection of the beehives
Bee brush with natural hair
Black Plastic Beehive Headcover Slide
Adjustable Hive Fasteners.Also simple hive connectors or hive connectors V
Adjustable Hive Fasteners.Also simple hive connectors or hive connectors V
Hive Handle
Galvanized smoker leather with screen.Stainless steel smoker leather
Rivel’s device
Fire Marker
Plastic Pollen Collector
Electric Uncapping Knife, inox, with temperature regulator
Uncapping fork, inox
Inox Honey Filter with double netting
Inox Honey extractors electric of manual for:• 2 frames• 4 frames• 6 frames• 8 frames• 10 frames
Stainless steel honey cans50 kg75 kg100 kg150 kg200 kg
Hive Tools
• Stainless steel Australian type
• classic stainless
• iron hammer
Yellow short or long and also cleaning tool for frames
• Inox Steam Wax Melter• Solar Wax Melter
Plastic, Black Top Feeder capacity 7.5kg
Transparent Top Feeder capacity 7.5kgAlso, Top Feeder Box capacity 1.5lt
Top Feeder with netting capacity 2.5 kg
Frame Feeder 1.5 kg & 3 kg
Frame GripsYellow Frame Grip with built-in hive tool
Brown Propolis Collector
Portable Wired Wasp TrapCone Wired Wasp TrapRed Wasp Trap
Metalic Queen excluderPlastic Queen excluder framed by woodHive divider
Honey Extractor Bench with cap for 13, 25 frames
What is Apiculture?
Apiculture is the management and study of honeybees.
Apiculture is the management and study of honeybees.
Apiculture is derived from the honeybee's Latin name Apis mellifera, meaning ‘honey gatherer’. Since bees do not collect honey but nectar from which honey is made, the scientific name should actually be Apis mellifica meaning ‘honey maker’.
Although apiculture refers to the honeybee, the vital role all bees play in the pollination of crops and flowering plants has caused apiculture to also include the management and study of non-Apis bees such as bumblebees and leafcutter bees.
Some 90 million years ago, flowering plants first appeared on earth. The wasp-like ancestors of bees took advantage of the food made available by flowers and began to modify their diet and physical characteristics.
Since then, flowering plants and bees co-evolved. This eventually led to a complete interdependence, meaning that flowering plants and bees cannot live and reproduce without each other.
Since then, flowering plants and bees co-evolved. This eventually led to a complete interdependence, meaning that flowering plants and bees cannot live and reproduce without each other.
The genus Apis is comprised of a comparatively small number of species including the western honeybee Apis mellifera, the eastern honeybee Apis cerana, the giant bee Apis dorsata, and the small honeybee Apis florea.
Honeybees are indigenous to the Eurasian and African continents and were introduced to the Americas and Australia by European settlers.
The western honeybee is comprised of some 24 races or sub-species. The African honeybee, sometimes referred to as ‘Killer bee’, is a race of the western honeybee and can therefore cross-breed.
Bees collect pollen and nectar. Pollen is the protein source needed for bee brood development while nectar is the carbohydrate source providing energy.
Nectar is a sugar solution produced by flowers containing about 80% water and 20% sugars. Foraging bees store the nectar in the ‘honey sac’ where the enzyme invertase will change complex sugars into simple sugars called mono-saccharides. Upon return to the hive, the foraging bee will disgorge the partially converted nectar solution and offer it to other bees. Housekeeping bees will complete the enzymatic conversion, further removing water until the honey solution contains between 14 – 20% water.
Honey is too dry for any microbes to live in. Honey is non-perishable and can be kept indefinitely in a cool, dry place.
The flavor, aroma and color of honey is determined by the floral source. For example, buckwheat honey is almost black while fireweed honey is almost colorless.
Unlike other bees, honeybees can communicate details about the location, quality and quantity of food sources. This allows honeybees to access and utilize food sources efficiently at great distances.
Honeybees maintain temperatures in the brood nest of between 30º C and 34º C, even in the middle of winter.
The honeybee colony is comprised of one queen, thousands of worker bees and a few hundred male bees called drones. Colony size varies according to season and condition of the colony.
Several diseases including viruses, various microbes and mites can affect the honeybee.
Honeybees are used in pollination and play a critical role in the production of many crops, representing a value of over $14 billion per year in North America.
