Products for Beekeepers and Bees
This is just a basic list of products. If you are looking for something that's not on this list, call and ask about it at (303) 728-4422; the website can't keep up with everything that's on the shelves. Also, many things can be special ordered.
Basic setupHive options
Top bar hives
Tools
Hive accessories
Comb supplies
Clothing
Bee health
Honey removal
Honey harvest
Containers and packaging
Books
Miscellaneous
Brands
Locally made specialty items
Basic setup--assembled or unassembled
- Telescoping cover
- Inner cover
- Hive body, aka deep super (9 5/8" deep)
- 3 grades of supers (commercial, economy, and used when available)
- Medium super (6 5/8" deep)
- Shallow super (5 11/16" deep)
- Frames: deep, medium, or shallow (unassembled includes top bar, bottom bar, and ends)
- Foundation (black and white wax-coated plastic, Duragilt, 100% beeswax, and crimped wire)
- Standard bottom board
- Nails (#7D, #4D, frame, 5/8)
Hive options
- Copper top
- Insulated hipped metal top
- Hive top feeder
- Bee Max insulated feeder
- Entrance feeder
- Queen excluder
- Screened bottom board--plastic, wood, wood with slide-out screen and debris tray
- Nucs
Top bar hives
- Varnished top bar hive
- Original top bar hive
- Warre top bar hive
- Golden Mean top bar hive
- Single bar
- Top bar hive tool
Tools
- Bee brush
- Frame cleaning tool
- Frame grip
- Frame spacer (8- or 9-frame)
- Hive carrier
- Hive tool (bridge comb or J hook)
- Smoker (7", with or without guard)
- Smoker fuel
Hive accessories
- Entrance reducer (metal, wood)
- Frame end savers
- Frame holder
- 9-frame nail-on spacers
- Mouse guard
Comb supplies
- Round comb
- Complete super (8 frames, 64 rings, 8 sheets foundation)
- Rings
- Foundation
- Plastic lids
- Cut comb
- Complete super (10 frames, 10 sheets foundation, support pins)
- Super (5 11/16")
- Frames
- Foundation
- Support pins
- Comb cutter
- Wax fastener
Clothing
- Hooded suit
- Hooded jacket
- Zip veil suit
- Folding veil - tie-around
- Zipper veil - replacement for zip veil suit
- Plastic helmet
- Ventilated straw helmet
- Canvas gloves
- Leather gloves
Bee health
- Mega Bee
- Medication spacer
- Api Guard
- Apistan
- Fumagillin
- Tetra-bee mix
- Honey B Healthy
- Amino-B
Bee and honey removal
- Fume board
- Bee Quick
- Bee escape
- Bee vacs
Honey harvest
- 5-gallon bucket
- Gate
- Bucket with gate
- Nylon filter and clips
- Double sieve
- Capping scratcher
- Uncapping knife (Thermostatic Speed King)
- Uncapping plane
- Heat element and blade replacements
Containers and packaging
- 5 oz and 8 oz hex jars with gold lids
- 1# and 2# Queenline jars
- 1/2 and 1 gallon jars
- Honey bears
- Round comb containers (clear or translucent)
- Square cut comb boxes
- Honey gift boxes
- Round comb labels
- Collars
- Wildflower press-on labels
Books
- ABC and XYZ of Bee Culture
- A Book of Bees
- A Book of Bees and How to Keep Them
- Backyard Beekeeper
- Barefoot Beekeeper
- Bees
- Beekeeeping: A Practical Guide
- Beekeeping for Dummies
- Beekeeper's Handbook
- Biodynamic Farming
- The Buzz About Bees
- Fifty Years Among the Bees
- Hive and the Honey Bee
- Honey Bee Diseases and Pests
- Hunting for Honey
- Langstroth's Hive and the Honey Bee
- Making Mead
- Natural Beekeeping
- The New Starting Right with Bees
- The Queen Must Die
- Rearing Queen Honeybees
- Robbing the Bees
- The Sacred Bee
- The Shamanic Way of the Bee
- Sweetness and Light
- Toward Saving the Bee
- Uncle Buzzy's Big Fat Book of Bee Cartoons
- Other current books are also available
Miscellaneous
- Honey dippers
- Honey pots
- Teapots and tea sets
- Honey
- Pollen
- Wall charts
- Cinder blocks
- Assorted used equipment
- Seeds for flowers that attract bees
Brands
- Brushy Mountain distributor
- Honey B Healthy distributor
- Pierco distributor
- Maxant distributor
- Dadant representative
Locally made specialty items
- Hive stand with built-in slope
- Frame holder--18-guage steel
- Telescoping lid--24-guage steel
- Gabled lids--copper and sheet metal
- Bee weather vanes
- Insulation boards--all-natural alpaca wool
- Pop-up for frame removal
- Top bar hive tool
- Wooden bee medallion
- Assorted bee vacuums
- Extractor
- Bucket drain
