Additional Equipment
As
your colony grows and fills both brood chambers, you
will need additional equipment for excess honey
storage, removal of honey, medicating and wintering.
Queen Excluder
A metal grid that the
workers can pass through but the queen and drones
can not. Used to restrict the Queen to the brood
chamber.
Honey Super and Frames
These supers could be
either deep, deep shallow (three-quarter depth) or
shallow.
Bee Escape
A mechanical method
of getting bees out of the honey supers.
Bee Brush
A horse hair brush
used to move bees off frames, etc.
Medication
These are needed at
various stages of colony growth. For example: during
brood rearing, spring and fall feeding, testing or
treatment for parasitic mites, etc.
and ...
You will need some
method/way of extracting the excess honey stores
your bees have gathered.
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