Beekeeping Made Easy            

 Part II Getting started   Equipment

Back    The Standard 10 frame Langstroth Bee Hive     

 If your browser does not allow hot spots, then you can click on the following pages individually to see the same items as linked on the picture above.  Top cover and inner cover    Honey Supers    Queen excluders   Brood chamber     Frames     Bottom board     Protective equipment

We would like to thank the Walter T. Kelley Co., Inc.  for being able to use this picture of a complete bee hive.  They sell some of the best bee equipment you will find. Contact them at www.kelleybees.com.   This picture contains what are called hot spots by web page writers. Get more information by clicking on the hive parts.   We have tried to include various terms and fact regarding the parts of a hive body.  

  The basic hive shown in this picture has been around for about 150 years.  It has proven to be simple, rather inexpensive, and widely adapted in the United States.   However, in your bee reading or discussion, you may come across others talking about 8 frame hives and jumbo hives.  These were popular in the past but less so today.   Most bee supply dealers will sell only 10 frame equipment.                   

Protective equipment and Tools for the beekeeper.  Click here to view and read about protective equipment and tools a person needs to take care of honey bees.