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Basic Beekeeping Equipment

Before you can start beekeeping you need some basic beekeeping equipment. What you need and what you end up buying depends a lot on how serious you are, and how much money you have of course.

Here is a short list of some of the items which I think you should start with. Different beekeepers will have their own view about the most basic equipment, but beekeepers are like that, opinionated!

A large smoker with a wire guard is my choice.
Smoker
My favorite, the gauntlet style with leather 'hands'.
Gloves
My favorite, the hooded style of bee suit.
Bee Suit
This is the regular, perhaps old-fashioned, style of hive tool.
Regular Hive Tool
This is the J type tool for lifting frames.
J Type Hive Tool
This is the bee brush, much more useful than you might think.
Bee Brush
This is Langstroth hive with a fancy roof, click for more types.

Bee Hive

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There's almost no limit to the amount of beekeeping equipment you can buy to set yourself up, but there's plenty of time for you to decide what you need, what you want later and what you'll probably never need.

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