Removing honey from the hive
Factsheet Number: 1257 Edition: First edition Released/reviewed: Sep 2012
One of the main reasons for keeping honey bees is to harvest the honey that bees store in their hives. The ability of honey bees to store vast quantities of this sweet substance has attracted human interest for thousands of years.
This factsheet covers the following topics:
- How honey is produced
- When to take honey from hives
- How much honey to take
- Honey from brood nests
- Floral honeys
- Queen excluders
- Methods of removing honey
- From the hive to the extractor
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