Saturday, October 11, 2008

Beekeeping Suit


Beekeeping is a hobby for some people, while it is an interesting home business for some. If you are interested in starting this business, you need to know all about its accessories such as hive tool, smoker and bee suit and basic information about maintaining hives. Beekeeping suit is one of the important accessories required for this business.

Beekeeping suit is white coveralls with elastics in order to close off pant legs and cuffs in the sleeves, along with a veil and gloves. While working with the bees, you need a protection from their stings. These body care suits come with integrated veil and hood. They are quite reliable, easy to use, protective and comfortable.

Beekeeping suit is light, durable and comfortable. It is made from the quality material such as polyester or cotton and it is available in different sizes. Major features of beekeeper's suit are:

- It is totally safe and fully sealed with Velcro, elastic and double zippers offering more security.
- It has fully-integrated, convenient hood and veil. This suit offers great ventilation to feel comfortable.
- It has heavy duty, extra-long ankle zippers that enable you to use it easily with boots.
- It features double heavy-duty zippers from the crotch to chest offering better utility.
- The suit consists of extra utility pockets for better usefulness.
- Its additional unique hood support is helpful for ventilation, better head movement and safety.
- It can be easily washed.

The veil is the ultimate in safety, convenience and comfort. It is connected to the beekeeping suit with the zippers at the collar. It does not require extra hat, clumsy metallic zippers, no fumbling with draw strings or no breaking of draw strings. The veil enables free head movement and provides excellent visibility. Unique head-rib can keep the fabric away from your head-crown. The suit is provided with special pockets to hold the beekeeping tools as well as personal items. Zippers provided in the pants legs can make the suit easy to use and more comfortable.

Correctly sized, well-designed and properly worn beekeeping suit and gloves can offer comfortable and effective protection against the stings from bees, hornets and wasps. This suit can be used in different situations like beekeeping, africanized bee extermination, bee-swarm and colony removal, utility maintenance, commercial pest control and heavy-equipment contracting. Beekeeper's body suit offers following benefits:

- If worn properly, bee suit can keep the stingers away and protect you from the stings.
- A bee suit and gloves can help keep the stinging insects out of clothes due to suit's the zippers at the torso, collar and ankles, elastic cuffs at the ankles and wrists and Velcro seals at the front and back of the integrated hood.
- The white color of the beekeeper's suit is neutral, non-attractive in appearance. All stinging insects are usually attracted to darker areas of the body such as hair, ears, nose, eyes and mouth. The bee suit is white and hence, the bees hit the darker screened veil. However, they cannot penetrate the veil.

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