Bees for beginners Part 8 Honey harvest

Part of our continuing educational series on Beekeeping. Part 8 shows a spring honey harvest. A short clip continues the video in Part 9.

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[SurvivalReport]

Essentially yes, only for brood on the bottom. They "clean" up themselves. Queen excluder is a wire or plastic device that is sized to only allow the workers through- keeping the queen out. This is used for several things but mainly for keeping the queen out of the area you want to pull honey from, thereby keeping eggs and larvae from getting into your honey.

[SurvivalReport]

The shallow super is the one that looks to be half the size of the larger ones. They are typically used for honey production but ANY size will do. The smaller frames are easier to handle when full of honey.

In general people start with one deep hive body more or less as a brood chamber, storage etc. Then as the hive expands they add a second deep. This is usually used as a place for more brood and honey storage. Sometimes a queen excluder is put down and then a shallow super is put on4 honey.

[SurvivalReport]

Yes you can use the wax for candles. We use a meshbag and put all the cappings, etc. in there and let the honey drip out for a few days. Even then you'll have to further separate the two. The little amount of wax you get from them is not usually worth the effort though.

[therealsporadicaarmy]

can you get capping knives with a heating element inside them so it is constantly hot and you don't have to keep putting on the burner?

[SurvivalReport]

@therealsporadicaarmy Oh sure, that's the more common method. We use solar power so energy consumption, especially on electrical items that produce HEAT is always a big concern. Nothing wrong with our "low tech" way, you might not always HAVE power.

[sammyssb]

DARTH VADAR

[SurvivalReport]

@sammyssb He used his light saber to uncap the honey but it caused a major mess. His brother Chad Vader, dominates the retail food industry in Wisconsin..... LOL If you haven't seen the "Chad Vader" series, it's here on youtube and hillarious!

[twink1ebug]

hahah, can we please discuss Darth Vader coming in out of nowhere? Funnyyyyyyyyy!!!

[Javin007]

Vader FTW!

[countparas]

darth vader is a bee keeper!

[cmorecs]

So the bottom box is ONLY for brood and some food storage for the bees and we are not to disturb or harvest from this box? Do we need to maintain or clean out that box or do the bees just continue to reuse the cells over and over to house their brood? Also, if you add a second large box, is it also treated like the first box…undisturbed? Next what is a Queen excluder, how does it work? Thanks for your quick reply!

[cmorecs]

Thanks for this great series! I am a true beginner and I really need to understand this process step by step. What is the shallow super? You went from beginning a hive to harvesting and I do not understand this stacking of hive boxes or why that is done. I have seen other videos with many hives stacked. Is that several hives, each with its own queen, stacked for space sake or is that one hive that has expanded upward and the boxes work together? Thanks again!

[icekat83]

I'd love to keep bees but I'm not sure my housemates would like it much. :) Perhaps I can convince my mother to let me put a hive at home.

Can you use the wax caps for wax candles? How do you separate the honey and wax so you can end up with pure wax to be moulded into candles? I love the idea of using both the wax and the honey. :)

[anorlast]

can you please tell me where can i find the bee veil that you whear on the video ?

thanks