Smoker Maintenance

摘要

Follow These Basics For A Long Lived Tool.A smoker is one of the primary tools used by your average beekeeper. By blowing smoke into the hive the beekeeper is able to simultaneously distract the worker bees and cover up the smell of their warning pheromones thereby interfering with one of the primary communications channels the bees utilize to organize and defend themselves. The smoker helps make beekeeping a much more enjoyable activity. While a great deal has been written about how and why to use a smoker when working with bees, not a lot hasbeen written about the unexciting but important topic of smoker maintenance despite the fact that questions on this subject come up every once in awhile.