smoking a hive – Keeping Backyard Bees https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com Thu, 19 Mar 2020 15:14:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i2.wp.com/www.keepingbackyardbees.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 smoking a hive – Keeping Backyard Bees https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com 32 32 Bee Smoker Know-How https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/bee-smoker-know-how-zbwz1801zsau/ https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/bee-smoker-know-how-zbwz1801zsau/#comments Thu, 18 Jan 2018 00:58:58 +0000 https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/?p=3773 Why the smoker? A necessity for preventing bee stings, even more than wearing your trusty bee suit, the smoker disrupts the bees’ normal cascade of defense when they perceive a threat. Smoked bees will flee from the source of smoke (you!) rather than advance in a defensive reaction. The result is less flight and stinging […]

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