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Stainless and galvanised steel smokers, with and without guard, the Anel® electric «flameless» model, fuels, base grids and APIBOX boxes. Up to €170.

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Joshua Ivars
Joshua Ivars
With over 15 years of experience in beekeeping, Joshua collaborates with the national beekeeping congress as part of the scientific committee in the area of innovation and sustainability.

How to choose and use the smoker well

The smoker is one of those tools that seem simple until you work with a nervous colony. It's not about filling the hive with smoke, but about using it with judgement: little smoke, well directed and always cold. A good smoker should give you white, dense and steady smoke, without flare-ups or sparks. If the smoke comes out hot, black or with a strange smell, you're doing something wrong: unsuitable fuel, poor combustion or excess air. For me, the smoker isn't a tool to “dominate” the bees by force; it's a tool to work more calmly, reduce defensiveness and be able to inspect without causing more stress than necessary.

My advice is to choose it thinking about how you work. For a beginner or few hives, a simple, comfortable bellows smoker is usually enough. If you work many hives, I'd look more at the capacity, the quality of the bellows, burn protection, an inner grate, stability and a spark-arrestor system. And I wouldn't skimp on the fuel: use clean, dry and safe materials; avoid plastics, inked paper, treated wood or anything that could leave smells in the honey. I'd also check how you're going to put it out and transport it. In summer or with wind, a poorly managed smoker is a real risk. Better a proper smoker, well lit and used calmly, than a big one belching smoke wildly. The bees notice it, and so do you.

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Smokers

A smoker does not calm bees by magic: smoke interrupts alarm-pheromone communication and makes them load up with honey, and a loaded bee stings less. Hence the type of smoke matters more than the power of the device.

Cool, plentiful smoke, not flame

The goal is cool, white, continuous smoke. Hot smoke harms the bees and irritates them, which is the opposite of what you want. That is why two apparently minor parts matter:

  • The base grid (€2) — separates the fuel from the bottom and lets air in underneath. Without it the fire either smothers or flares up.
  • The fuel — what burns slowly and without flame is what gives cool smoke. Pellets and specific preparations such as Apidou are made for that; cardboard and dry grass work but dirty the bellows and go out.

What to look at when buying

  • Material — stainless steel copes better with creosote and cleans up; galvanised is cheaper.
  • Guard — the outer cage stops you burning yourself and your suit when you set it down. With gloves on it is appreciated more than you would think.
  • Bellows size — big bellows keep the smoke going with fewer squeezes and tire the hand less across a long apiary.
  • Electric "flameless" model by Anel® — a heating element instead of combustion. It solves lighting and the spark risk, which in a dry summer is not a small thing.

After using it

A lit smoker in the boot of a car is a fire waiting to happen. Put it out by blocking the spout, let it cool and store it in a metal APIBOX, which exists precisely for that, in small and tall sizes. And clear the creosote now and then: that is what eventually blocks the spout.

The smoker is the first tool of hive work, along with the suit and the hive tool.