The major is the enfumoir ,

The enfumoir, by its smoke it is going to allow the beekeeper to intervene in the hive, the bee as all the animals is afraid of the fire, if the hive came To be taken in a fire, the reflex of avettes is going to be to go to the carrier frames of food to take a maximum of reserve in sight of the exodus.
The beekeeper thus traps bees with his enfumoir, and by the dispersal of the smoke on the heads of frames and on the stream of the curious which rise to its meeting, A direct action is going to have by making the population come down again in the body of hive.
The first movement to be made before opening a hive is to say hello to the bee colony, the beekeeper is going to take place on the highly-rated of the hive and putting the collar of the enfumoir near the hole of flight, be going to send 2 or 3 breaths to the hive.
The effect is immediate while the humming of bees was quiet and of a rather grave tone, from the appearance of the smoke the alert propagates The humming wins in intensity aigû becomes faster and more.
The colony is warned of your visit, guards fly around the beekeeper.

The pea jacket , fragile but effective.

The pea jacket is a light garment of white or ecru color.
The grammage of the cotton in which she(it) is made is lower than that of the T-shirt, very fine she allows of not not Be too much hot when we operate over the hive.
It is necessary to remember that the ideal temperature of the hive is of 35°c. Also as it is felt this hot flash which rises to the face to the opening of centre(suit) cover.
The pea jacket by its clear color, fact that if bees distinguish us, we appear to them a little as in a halo of fog and it is going to avoid that they track down too easily, the articulations which they are going to privilege if they prick.

The pea jacket by its sharpness of fabric does not protect stings, to avoid attacks returns to the beekeeper who by his peace, the carried attention on the manipulations, is going be accepted of its bees.
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The raises frame, tremendous tool, the brushes in bee

frame raises It, compromise between the foot of hind and the wood chisel, is adapted to take off covers it frame by the extremity wood chisel, the width of this last one avoids tearing the wood.
Bees to avoid the flight of the heat by chinks, cracks of the wood, seal them since the inside of the hive with of it propolis , resin which they collect on the buds of certain trees, the willow among others.
This resin is very effective and when the temperatures are fraiches, it is a real hard cement to be cut.
Highly-rated foot of hind allows he, to have an effective scraper and is going to serve to make control lever on the heads of frame that we are going to have to unstick aus two extremities before lifting them.

The brush with bee with its hairs in hair of horse allows to spread(to push aside) delicately the bees of the surfaces of the frame which we want to examine.
It makes spare time also during the decanting of a colony

The good old woman

Three models of hives are collectively used in France:

Dadant, Langstroht, Voirnot.

All these hives are equipped with removable frames and are divisible.
Frames are removable, it is possible to lift them alternately, to move them at will in the body of hive.
Hives are said divisible because they are made of various parts: floor, body of hive, increase of hive, roof.
The various parts are going to add (body / increases) or come out according to the need of volume which evolves according to the season.

Roofs can be flat, and covered with a shaped tole, this type of roof is very used by the professionals because very practical To pile the bodies of hive some on the others during the transhumance; very practical also during the visit in the apiary to rest of the equipment.

Roofs chalets, present the advantage to offer an internal volume allowing to place easily the nourrisseur in winter, or a thick insulating material.
From the aesthetic point of view, it embellishes the aspect of hives

The ruchette ,

ruchettes is indispensable for the good management of an apiary, light established by 5 frames, they are going to allow to get back swarms, which even big will find a shelter adapted to their volume there.
the beekeeper can concern it the ladder with him if the swarm to be to be taken in is placed in height.
They offer the advantage to be able to be placed as ruchettes trap in about twenty meters of the apiary with clean frames and to fix swarms that we would have let escape.
Finally, when a hive countered too populous, they are going to receive 2 or 3 frames of brood, frames of food and some thousand bees, and allow the breeding of a new bee colony.
We can perceive the mini board of flight.

The various elements, the frame of body , cover frame .

On the photography, we can see put in the grass the flat roof of the ruchette.
Against the body opened by the ruchette which is painted in the thermopeinture; sensible to decrease the ascent in temperature of the hive subjected to a high sunlight, it finds the cover frame which positions as a hat over the body of ruchette, it is constituted by a fine small board of stuck lamellé - opened in its center of the hole of nourrissement.
A frame of body appears from the ruchette, 4 others identical find place in its quoted.

With the aim of facilitating the manipulations in the apiary, it is important that we choose a type of unique hive, To have frames of increase and body which are exchangeable.

gloves does not appear in the indispensable tools, nevertheless the greenhorns should rather carry the time to get acquainted with The fact of having walkers on hands. The leather gloves of clear color are to be recommended.