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…