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ADDITIONAL EQUIPMENT REQUIRED
(additional equipment can be purchased through our website)
Protective gear – bee hat and veil
or beekeeping suit/jacket, gloves
We recommend you wear a protective
beekeeping suit whenever you are
working with your bees. For more
information refer to the Accredited First
Aid Beekeeping Safety pamphlet.
Additional Langstroth frames for
Flow Hybrid packages
If you have purchased the Flow Hybrid
package you will need to add the four
additional standard frames to completely
fill your super.
It is important to provide your bees with
a full box of frames. If you do not the
bees will create ‘free-form’ honey cells,
called burr comb, in the empty space
beside your frames. This is dicult
and extremely messy to harvest and
will prevent easy removal of your Flow
Frames.
Queen excluder
We recommend the use of a queen
excluder. The queen excluder is a mesh
panel which prevents the queen from
accessing and laying eggs in your honey
super. This ensures that the honey super
is not contaminated with brood.
Smoker
The smoker reduces defensive
behaviour when the hive is disturbed.
We recommend that you have a smoker
on hand any time you are undertaking
beekeeping activities, and that you use
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