A large roomy pouch pocket at the front is big enough to take a standard hive tool.

He handed me a hive tool, a steel wedge, about 10 inches long, used to open hives and reach where hands are not welcome.

I use my metal hive tool to pry apart two of the frames and lift out the first, the closest to the entrance.

Relaxed bees will lap up honey straight from a wet hive tool, kids enjoy 'feeding the bees' in this way.

They throw themselves against my gloves and the metal hive tool as I lift out a frame, and I'm surprised once more.

Mr. Miller blew some smoke over a hive, and pried open its cover with his hive tool.

The big rain drops are becoming more frequent as I wash the fondant off my hive tool and gratefully pull my coat on.

After a day working with bees, scraping and moving frames there are globs of propolis stuck to hands, hive tools and clothing.

Any undrawn Piercos with brace or burr comb can be scraped clean with a hive tool and returned to the syuper.

He pulls on a cardigan to sit in the cool stone-walled room piled with wares for his beekeeping supply business: honeycomb frames, smokers, hive tools.

I’m tempted to give the hornet a whack with my metal hive tool, but predators aren’t evil and bumping just one off wouldn’t really make my bees any safer.

I take my hive tool - a sort of bent chisel that's very useful for all sorts of beekeeping tasks - and start to prise the frames apart, transferring some of the syrup onto it as I do.

In 1970 he moved to Dover-Foxtrot in Maine where a friend gave him everything needed for beekeeping - hive, mask, gloves, smoker, hive tool - but not the actual bees.