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  • Why Do We Keep Bees? [+]
  • Types of Beekeepers
  • What Do Beekeepers Do?
  • Checking the Hives (Basic Tools)
    • Hive Inspection video
    • Tools
      • Bee Smoker
      • Hive Tool
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      • Bee Suit
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    • Health
      • Varroa Mites
      • Foulbrood
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      • Nosema
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    • Queen Productivity
      • Queen Replacement
    • Swarms
      • Swarm Retrieval
    • Adding Supers
  • Harvesting Honey [+]
  • Protecting the Hive [+]
  • Record Keeping and Maintenance
  • Gathering Information

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Modern materials such as aluminum and artificial leather are often incorporated in the manufacture of beekeeping equipment, such as this smoker.

Modern materials such as aluminum and artificial leather are often incorporated in the manufacture of beekeeping equipment, such as this smoker.
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Modern materials such as aluminum and artificial leather are often incorporated in the manufacture of beekeeping equipment, such as this smoker.  Although the materials used to construct bee smokers may have changed, their design has remained the same since the 1870s.

Tools

Over the last hundred years, beekeeping tools have changed in size and material, but their mechanisms and techniques have remained much the same.

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