How to Use a Bee Smoker

Video Transcript

"To get into the beehive- to open the beehive- you have to have a smoker, a veil covering yourself and your body if you want to- the most possible. So, the way you start a smoker is you open it—this is old…so you can use bark, for example. Small pieces, not to big ones. And all small pieces of wood first, and then big ones, larger ones like this and this. But you have to start with small ones. Another good material for burning that I don’t have here is cow manure, dry. It has to be dry to be able to burn. So this is the way I start the smoker. You put a little bit of paper, and I drop a- it’s just like starting a fire. Drop pieces of bark, wood chips. Okay. Here we go. "