CATDOLL : CATDOLL: When collecting honey, how do you drive the bees away from the comb? How do you ensure your own safety?

When collecting honey, what methods should be used to drive bees away from the honeycomb? How can one ensure his own safety?

When preparing to collect honey, you must first be prepared, wear a mask or protective clothing, and protect yourself from being stung. You must also clean up and be prepared when collecting honey. The traditional method of raising bees is to use smoke. In the past, native bees were raised in barrels. It was inconvenient to take out the honeycombs, so they usually used smoke. The bees are most afraid of smoke, and they will immediately escape when it is released. As long as you use a ignited grass rake to burn smoke and let the smoke reach the honeycombs, the bees will immediately leave the honeycombs and hide in the bottom box. Then cut off the honeycombs that need to be collected. If there are still bees on the honeycombs, use a bee broom to sweep them clean, and find a way to remove the pure honey from the remaining honeycombs.

The cut honey combs can be taken back to the room and squeezed to extract pure honey, but honey cannot be extracted by boiling, which will affect the quality of honey. The traditional method of extracting honey requires cutting the combs and damaging the combs, and may also destroy the brood combs, which is very harmful to the bees. However, the number of times honey can be extracted from native bees raised in barrels is very limited, and honey may only be extracted once or twice a year. Beekeepers should try to select combs with few brood combs and extract honey without affecting the growth of bees. It is usually done in autumn and winter when breeding stops.

After the live frame honeycomb needs to be shaken and the bees are swept, the beekeeping technology has been continuously improved, and live frame breeding has officially begun. Live frame breeding can bring out the free soul of the honeycomb, which is convenient for checking bees and taking honey. When taking honey from live frame honeycombs. You need to have a professional tool, such as a spray bottle or a smoke spray bottle, a bee sweeper, a honey cutting knife, and it is best to have a honey shaker. Wear protective clothing, clean the tools for taking honey, and then start to take honey. After opening the beehive, you need to use a spray bottle or a smoke spray bottle to spray the hive so that the bees can avoid it, and there will be fewer bees on the beehive, which is easy to lift the honeycomb. Sprinkling water and spitting smoke can deter the bees and reduce stings. Then prop up the honey skin. If the bees raised are Italian bees with propolis capsules, you need to use a scraper to loosen the sides of the beehive first, so that it can be successfully taken out.

After taking out the honey comb, you should start shaking the bees. Shaking the bees is a skill that you must learn when collecting honey. Before shaking the bees, you must make sure that there is no queen bee in the honey comb, and shake the honey comb towards the empty part of the beehive. When shaking the bees, they must be in the beehive, and there is no need to lift them up. The amplitude of shaking the bees must be controlled, not only to shake the bees hard, but also to avoid hitting the beehive. When shaking the bees, you should shake them down quickly, and try not to shake the honey comb, so that the bees can be shaken off the comb without scattering them. Cheerful, stable, vertical, and fast are the skills of shaking bees.

The intensity and method of shaking the bees should be carefully explored. If the shaking technique is correct, there will be very few bees left on the honeycomb after shaking. Then use a bee broom to sweep the remaining bees into the beehive. If there are no bees in the honeycomb, quickly put it into the honey shaker, or quickly take it back to the room to get honey. Honeycombs are always attractive to bees. After sweeping away the bees, there will be more bees rushing over. Be sure to take them away as soon as possible, and at the same time prevent the bees from flying to the honeycomb again.

Generally, the fumigation method is used, and then you have to wear a mask or bee-proof clothing.

Traditional beekeeping uses fumigation, and movable frame honeycombs need to be shaken to sweep out the bees. When preparing to collect honey, be prepared in advance, wear a mask or protective clothing, and take precautions to avoid being stung. The work of collecting honey also needs to be cleaned and prepared.

You can wear some protective clothing and spray some bee-unpleasant smells on yourself. While ensuring your own safety, you should also have protective equipment and take some isolation measures on your body, such as wearing some protective clothing.

In the season when the climate is warm and the nectar source is abundant, you can collect honey after finding wild bees according to their nesting habits and life patterns. According to experience, mud holes, tree holes, wall holes and other wild beehives that can be dismantled can not only collect bees, but also obtain wild honey. The process of collecting honey requires caution.