City Hive: Inspecting a perfectly drawn out Honey Frame
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ก.พ. 2024
- These frames are from what's called a Langstroth Hive; just about all of my Colonies and Hives on my City property and on my bigger Apiaries (Bee Yards) up North at my Cottage and at some of my uncles pastures he uses for his cows that he raises, are all these type of Hive Bodies. Within these types of Hive Bodies, one can get "8 Frame" or "10 Frame" Hive Bodies. I chose to use the "10 Frame" Hive Bodies. Now, within these Hive Bodies there is usually a "Bottom Board", on top of that goes the "Brood Box(es)", these are deeper and contain usually the Queen, the Brood (eggs, larvae, pupae), The Nurse bees, undertaker bees, Guard bees, Drones (males), as well as the Forager bees who come and go and drop stuff off such as propolis, nectar and pollen. What you see in this video is the Boxes that go above the Deep Brood Box(es); they are called "Honey Supers", and these are 10 Frame Boxes, but they are more shallow and they are where the Forager and other worker bees usually store the excess nectar in the hexagonal cells, where its then "fanned" by the worker bees wings until it reaches about 14% or just less moisture (virtually making it "honey"). They then "cap" the cells of honey with their wax glands, and the bees that put it there and cap it will probably never ever get to enjoy it in their lifetime (Spring and Summer bees do not live too long and they are storing this honey for the future generations of bees that will come after themselves; quite selfless of them tbh). I am just inspecting some of these Honey Super frames that are capped in this video; this one single frame probably has about 20 lbs. of pure Raw Honey capped and ready to be harvested by someone like me or left in there for their hard months (Dearth and Winter months).
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