14 - Honey Extraction
- Honey extraction
- We drop in on commercial beekeeper Frank Lindsay to see how honey gets extracted from the hive. (duration: 23′42″)
- Download: Ogg Vorbis MP3
I'm extracting honey but sadly not from my hive. The queen swarmed just after Christmas takingthousands of bees with her. So we have to leave all the honey the bees havemade so far to get them through the winter. Frank Lindsay's a commercialbeekeeper and the bloke who game me my original queen. Now Frank's in the middle of harvesting hishoney, so I drop in to see how it's done.
Video of honey extraction process
View photos at the Honey Harvest photo gallery.
Resources
Bee Photos
A gallery of images
Honey Harvest
A gallery of images
Pollen analysis
Analysing commercial honey
Episodes
- 1 - Meet the beekeeper
- 2 - Hive location
- 3 - Catching a swarm of bees
- 4 - Building the hive
- 5 - Arrival of the bees
- 6 - Merging swarm with hive
- 7 - Hive check-up
- 8 - Pre-Xmas visit
- 9 - Trouble in the Hive
- 10 - New queen on the block
- 11 - Colony Collapse Disorder
- 12 - Toxic Tutu
- 13 - Beehive Check
- 14 - Honey Extraction
- 15 - A Taste of Honey
- 16 - Varroa treatment
- 17 - Bee team expansion
- Commercial honey pollen analysis
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