Buzz Box & DunnyBees Collaboration
Start Your Beekeeping Journey Right
Across the UK, honey bees are facing increasing pressure from human activity and urgently need our support. By becoming a beekeeper, you can play a vital role in helping colonies survive and thrive.
The Buzz Box Starter Pack gives you everything you need to begin your beekeeping journey – apart from the bees (but don’t worry, we’ll guide you on how to get your first colony!)
Featuring a UK National beehive – the most widely used and beekeeper-friendly hive in the UK – the kit also includes a protective suit, gloves, hive tool, bee smoker and feeder.
What’s Included in the Buzz Box Starter Pack?
THE HIVE:
The Buzz Box hive is a UK National Hive which is the most common type of hive used here in the UK. It is delivered flat-packed and includes the following:
- The Brood Box (where the Queen lays eggs to keep the colony populated)
- 10 x Brood Frames & Wax Foundation (to go in the Brood Box)
- 2 x Supers (where the bees make and store honey)
- 20 x Super Frames & Wax Foundation (for the Supers)
- A Roof (to keep everything dry!)
- A Crown Board (keeps bees out of the roof space, and has other uses)
- A Queen Excluder (stops Her Royal Highness from laying eggs in the supers)
- The Hive Floor with Entrance Block and Varroa Board
- A Feeder
The Brood Box and Supers have Perspex windows built in so that you can look inside and see the bees working on the comb without disturbing them.
THE SUIT & TOOLS:
- A Smoker (used to keep the bees calm, if needed, when you're inspecting them)
- A Hive Tool (the most important tool a beekeeper can have)
- A Beekeeping Suit (Also essential, despite what you might see on social media!)
- A pair of leather Beekeeping Gloves
THE GUIDE:
Designed to guide new beekeepers into beekeeping in the UK by giving a clear overview of how it all works. It is a map that gives a good overview of where to get additional information that is most relevant to you.
A lot of the information in this guide was gathered and sifted through during the first few years of Buzz Box Founder Mark's beekeeping journey. It is an online resource that is being updated continually and can be referred back to at any stage of your beekeeping career.
Not Included:
- The Bees. An essential component, we know, but they don't do well after flat-packing!
Order yours today and begin your beekeeping journey!
