The Beegeek Store

Are you a beekeeper? or know one? Beegeek designed merchandise makes unique gifts for beekeepers and everyone who loves honey and honeybees. For terrific beekeeping and honeybee themed t-shirts, mugs, hats, bags and other great stuff, visit our online store. All these designs are exclusively available from Beegeek. Check out our newest design Beegeek Peace— Give Bees a Chance!

A Honey Warmer for Small Scale Beekeepers

One of the problems that all beekeepers have to deal with is crystallized honey. Depending on specific sugar balance of your nectar source, honey can sugar in a few days as in case of raspberry honey or never as in white tupelo honey. So, inevitably we are faced with having to warm their honey to de-crystallize it. A number of beekeepers convert old refrigerators. For a lot of us that solution doesn't work. I developed a new warmer and wrote an article for the August issue of Bee Culture Magazine on how to make a really good one out of a cooler. Though the article is pretty complete and should have enough information to construct one for yourself, I thought it might be helpful to have some dimensioned drawings of the base to help in the construction. To download the original article and helpful detailed drawings, just click here. For additional photos to help you construct a heater of your own click here.

A Portable Battery Powered Bee Vacuum

Somehow swarms are always a distance away from a power source. The solution: a battery powered bee vacuum made up from a rechargeable battery powered portable vacuum cleaner and a 5 gallon water bottle. It has worked very well for me for several years. Why not build one yourself? To get the PDF drawings, just click here. T