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New to beekeeping. cought this swarm the night before and put them in a dresser untill i was able to make an actuall hive the following day. This is me moving the bees from the dresser to my home made hive..enjoy! thats a lot of BEES.

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I filmed my friend Jim set up his 1st Beehive at his home.

Beekeeping is a very popular hobby and obviously the main reason for setting up, maintaining, and stocking a beehive is to harvest the honey. You will know that it is time to harvest the honey (the month depends on your location in the world) when you look into one of your hives and find that the frames of comb are full of honey and that the honey bees have covered it with wax caps.   It’s time to remove the super and keep it in a bee proof room prior to extraction.

When the super is full of capped honeycomb you are going to have to remove the honey bees from that super. There are several commercial chemicals available on the market that will make this easier.  All the bee-keeper has to do is apply the chemical to a fume board or pad and place it on top of the super.  When the honey bees detect the chemical they head to the bottom of the hive to the brood chamber or a part full super below the full one.  This leaves the super full of capped honeycomb and bee free for you to harvest.

This product does not harm the honey bees; the honey bees simply find the scent offensive and move away from it.  Another method bee-keepers use to clear honey bees from a super is by using a crown board with a Porter bee escape fitted.  There is also the Canadian clearer board and the clearing cone; there is also WBC cone escape if required.  Using the escape method can take 24 to 48 hours.

Now that you have removed the super you need to prepare the frames for extraction. The first step in this preparation is to remove the wax caps that the honey bees have used to seal the honey into the comb. Many bee-keepers use between nine and twelve frames in their supers, some modern hives take more frames.  By using the correct number of frames to suit your type of hive you give the honey bees enough room to draw the comb out to the edge of the frame, they then cap it right on the very edge. This makes it easier to remove the wax caps by cutting flush to the frame.  Bee-keepers use a metal knife to remove the caps, the knife works best if the knife blade is hot, after all it’s easier to cut warm wax then it is to cut cold wax. You can keep the knife blade hot by keeping it in hot water.

A tall jug or pitcher that covers the knife blade is ideal. If the container is metal and can be kept on the heat then so much the better.  Some bee-keepers like to use their bread knife to remove the wax caps from the honey comb while others prefer an electrical knife that is designed just for bee-keepers. Another method of removing the caps is by using an uncapping fork.

Once you have removed the caps from the comb the honey is exposed, you can then use a straining cloth or bag or you could secure a piece of cheesecloth over an empty pot or container and put the wax cappings on the cheesecloth the honey will drain through the cheesecloth and the bee’s wax caps will be left on the cheesecloth.  This wax can be processed in a solar wax extractor or in a steamer/melter.  Once the caps are removed from the honey comb the honey is ready to be extracted.

This can be done by resting the frame on its top bar (upside down) in a tray or suspend the frame upside down over a tray.  The honey will drain out of the comb.  The honey comb cells have a slight up turn towards the top bar.  This is to prevent the honey running out when being deposited by the worker bees.  This is not very a very efficient method but is used as a last resort for some if they can’t get access to an extractor.

It is perhaps better if you borrow a centrifugal extractor from a fellow bee-keeper or your local group, club or association. There are many models of extractor I would suggest you seek advice.  You can of course make cut comb honey in 16 oz, 12 oz or 8 oz rectangles.  Rectangular cutters are available or you could use a hot knife and cut your own rectangles.

Not only is honey a great tasting food (whether eaten by itself, on toasted bread, or added to other foods or beverages as a sweetener), but it is also a germ-free product that can be used for applying externally to treat cuts and burns on the skin. It is said to promote healing and aid in the prevention of scarring. Honey also acts as a disinfectant in treating irritated mucous membranes, as in the occurrence of cough or sore throat.

Since the work habits of the bee are legendary (as in “busy as a ___”), let’s take a look at what our productive little friends do, how they do it, and how that relates to our health and well-being. The worker bees travel from their hive, making periodic and frequent stops at flowering plants, usually within a radius of just a mile or so from their home. They extract nectar from the blossoms and pass it into their “honey stomachs,” where it is partially digested, taken back to the hive, and regurgitated to be stored in the honeycombs.

This is where the homeopathic viability of locally produced honey comes into play in the treatment of seasonal allergies. Since the honey contains pollen from nearby plants (the same pollen that becomes airborne and drives you to tears and tissues), eating the honey is the same as ingesting a small amount of the irritating pollens. This helps your system build up resistance to those same pollens that are causing your body so much discomfort. This is the whole principle behind homeopathic healing, anyway; treating a disease with small amounts of a substance that in large amounts produces symptoms that are similar to the disease itself.

 So how much honey should you ingest to gain any homeopathic benefit? Most advocates of this method recommend at least 2 to 3 teaspoons per day. They also suggest that you start consuming the honey several months before the active pollen season begins in your area.

A few key points should be considered about the honey you choose to eat. It should be raw, unrefined, unfiltered 100% pure honey that has been harvested within no more than a 50 mile radius of your home; the reason being, of course, that the makings of the honey will have been collected from those same plants causing you the most trouble.

One good source of local honey is usually your local farmers’ market.  The light colored product you find on shelves in major grocery store chains might be tasty, but who knows how far away it was produced or how much it has been processed?

This method of treating seasonal allergies may or may not be helpful to you, but at least in the process of trying it, you will be consuming a delicious natural food that is loaded with good things such as vitamin C, antioxidants, vitamin B-6, niacin, and lots of other vitamins and minerals. Honey is also a low-calorie food and makes a healthful sugar substitute in your diet.

Pay attention to father Hippocrates and mother Nature; try honey, the perfect food, and see if it won’t alleviate some of your seasonal sniffles.

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