Honey Harvest: Learning the hard way
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ต.ค. 2024
- Last year when we harvested honey and had no clue what we were doing, we made a big mess and it took days to harvest one super. This year we lost more than half our harvest because we did not immediately process it. We made the mistake of buying an extractor after we harvested supers and learned the hard way that the best place to leave supers is on the hive until ready to extract, within-2-3 days.
We end the video with a review of what we learned this year. Always an adventure!
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Im so sorry you experienced the curse of the dratted moth. Great little extractor though👍I'm not sure if you are aware of this, but if you want to delay your extraction, shove your honey frames into a freezer for 48 hrs. This will kill any greater or lesser wax moth eggs and then you can seal them in a airtight container and extract when you want. Many commercial beekeepers do this because they have a large amount of frames to work through and often you have to store honey frames up while you're pulling supers (honey boxes)from areas. Its an easy mistake don't beat yourself up about it, seriously when you're new to beekeeping you never think about blasted moths😅Ive helped a hobbyist who completly lost an entire stored deep frame box because it had pollen in the comb as well and wax moth loves pollen way more than honey and they actually completely stripped everything off the frames down to the wax wires😬. A rat chewed an entrance at a corner and the wax moth took out the lot. If you're going to pull food frames (frames with honey and pollen) to feed a nuc or a split i absolutely recommend freezing. Lesson learned and this year will be a greater harvest because of it. 👍 Great video 👋 from central Otago southern New Zealand 👋🥝😄
How interesting. Thanks for sharing. So cool to see a Kiwi following us!!!
When you finish extraction, take anything you need to clean and set it outside at least 20 ft from your hives and let bees rob/clean your stuff !
This popped up in my feed but it may be close to harvest time again! I try my best to harvest the same weekend I pull the honey. I started with the bucket and uncapper. You may consider getting a 5 gallon paint strainer bag and putting it in the bucket so you can drain your cappings. Hopefully your knife is sharp, but use a sawing motion if you can. I just use one of our kitchen aid knives and be sure it is very sharp before I start.
The larvae on your frames were most likely Small Hive Beetle larvae.
They were wax moths. Even had a few adult moths in the box.
Ya. If you leave the frames around you will get wax moth. Don’t wait more than a week.
Hi, new beekeeper here. I always harvest the same day frames are taken off
Wise.
Learning those lessons the hard way sucks but it teaches us how to proceed the next time!!! Wishing you well on your bee journey!!!
Freezer first
If you're not going to extract right away you should freeze your frames. It will kill any bugs that may be on your frames.
Also, when freezing the frames, I put mine in kitchen trash bags, you can easily fit a couple frames in a bag.
Dang, so sorry that happened to you!
AGH - heartbreaking tale. I felt sure the disaster was going to be a full honey bucket collapsing that shaky table and spilling on the carpet. I thin that would be worse, but not by much.
Better luck next year.
Oh - don't forget to freeze the moth-infested frames before giving them back to the bees. Who knows what eggs and larvae are still viable in there.
you're very brave extracting honey inside your home. Looking forward to seeing more of your beekeeping journey.
it's our barn that we converted to home office
I heard that putting frames in the freezer kills moth larva so you may get away with storing the frames longer before you process them, maybe more information is on the internet concerning that. Nice video, like your new honey extractor and the plastic thing i will try to find for myself, thanks.
Yeah but we heard once frozen it’s really hard to extract the honey and plus the larvae and moths pooped all over the honey so I still wouldn’t trust it.
Let the bees clean out the wax moth frames outside the hive and when they get in capped over inside hive, just harvest it like normal.
Once infestations occur their is no saving the honey for human consumption
Heat your honey knife in hot water, it works fantastic
I always pull extract same day
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Freeze honey frames for long-term storage
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I always pull honey and extract same day and I have 30 hives.
Wow. 30!
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sirve para muchos beneficios
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es una alegría tener esto para su ogar en casa
harvest frames within 48 hours, this is written in stone!
Lol. Yes, now we know!
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How much honey do you eat?
Hard to say. We use it for lots of things.
I've extracted honey from frames that had some wax moth infestation and I can tell you get the wax moth all strains out!
Yes but it’s highly advised not to eat it and definitely don’t sell it. It will have contaminates that can harm humans.
how is it that you raised bees to make honey but failed learn about the extraction process. Should have known to not remove honey frames til extraction time or known to freeze the frames while storing off the hive. Study in advance when engaging in something you are not sure about. Don't put hive moth infested frames back in the hive until you freeze them for 48 hrs to kill the moth larvae
I don't see any videos of you doing it right. Maybe you'd like to teach a master class?
I put a good bug zapper in my yard no moths
What stops the bees from getting zapped ???
Nice video, really good to see people having a go, even if you get little or no honey, bee keeping is very rewarding and you will do better with time,good luck for next season guys.
I'd strain it and eat it anyway :)
Don’t. Wax moth larvae contain bacteria harmful to humans.
@@blitz_zen bad idea. Not only does the honey ferment, which makes it taste as pleasant as a sock boiled in vinegar, where do you think the wax moth caterpillars crap? Basically, it's a write off😬
Nice job
Thank you! Cheers!
Thank you for sharing.
I just invested in a 9” electric knife like one used for slicing bread, as I watched a video on it and it seemed really easy to use for uncapping the comb.
It was very convenient and worth the 25 bucks.
We will have to look into it