{"id":17,"date":"2009-03-23T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/_blog\/?p=14"},"modified":"2009-03-23T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-23T13:00:00","slug":"my-bee-starter-kit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/my-bee-starter-kit\/","title":{"rendered":"My Bee Starter Kit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The starter kit deals at the various mail order houses are a good deal. You get nearly $300 worth of stuff for about $150. Here is my first hive waiting for the bees. I painted it dark brown because I am putting it in the wooded area behind my house and I don&#8217;t want the neighbors to know it&#8217;s there.<\/p>\n<p>First the Base with the mite board. You cover this with Vaseline if you start getting mites and the mites stick to it.<br \/><img src=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/_TOet5er9HPs\/ScUrqc4MgVI\/AAAAAAAACAY\/lorKGrtVyMc\/s400\/DSCN4518.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is the divider board.<br \/><img src=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/_TOet5er9HPs\/ScUrqQm07WI\/AAAAAAAACAU\/6Dk4orGUur4\/s400\/DSCN4519.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is the Hive box and the empty Frames. I have the foundation, but I am not putting it in the frames just yet. The bees won&#8217;t bee here for another three weeks.<br \/><img src=\"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/_TOet5er9HPs\/ScUrp4BrTmI\/AAAAAAAACAM\/xnxpzlD-zXQ\/s400\/DSCN4517.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is the box with the aluminum covered top.<br \/><img src=\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/_TOet5er9HPs\/ScUrp_xMI1I\/AAAAAAAACAI\/DhYooAeM-7c\/s400\/DSCN4520.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These are some of the other knic-knacs that you get. There&#8217;s a feeder, an entrance reducer, a hive tool, a brush, gloves and a smoker. I also have fuel for the smoker.<br \/><img src=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/_TOet5er9HPs\/ScUrpGpZ6-I\/AAAAAAAACAE\/-8RSE9K6V6E\/s400\/DSCN4521.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here is a jerk modeling the bee hat thing.<br \/><img src=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/_TOet5er9HPs\/ScUrqGuRHbI\/AAAAAAAACAQ\/5u41taaevXc\/s400\/DSCN4522.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In addition to this you get a book, which I have talked about and a video on DVD from 1991 that is sometimes very good and many times very funny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The starter kit deals at the various mail order houses are a good deal. You get nearly $300 worth of stuff for about $150. Here is my first hive waiting for the bees. I painted it dark brown because I am putting it in the wooded area behind my house and I don&#8217;t want the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}