Honey Extraction and Processing
In this video, the speaker is excited to harvest honey from his beehives. He checks each box to see if they are ready for extraction and finds that some have a lot of nectar but not enough capped honey to extract. He explains that the bees are backfilling the brood nest with nectar, which is okay because they still have other boxes to raise brood in. He also mentions that the bees can become irritable when the weather changes, especially when it's going to rain. He eventually finds a few boxes that are ready for extraction and takes them to give the bees more space to put more honey.
- It is the first honey harvest of the year.
- The top box is not ready to extract, but there is nectar in the cells.
- Weather changes make bees finicky, especially when it's going to rain.
- Some frames are not ready to extract because the humidity level in the cells is too high.
- The hive has lots of brood, but the bees are backfilling the brood nest with nectar.
- Some boxes are not ready to extract, but others are.
- The bees in one hive are irritable, possibly due to genetics.
- The bees need more space to store honey, and extracting some will help with that.
Video Summary:
- The speaker is excited to harvest honey from his beehives
- He checks each box for honey production
- Some boxes have a lot of nectar but not enough capped honey to extract
- The bees are backfilling the brood nest with nectar
- The bees can become irritable when the weather changes
- The speaker takes a few boxes that are ready for extraction to give the bees more space to put more honey.