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How to get honey from bees?

How to keep bees and get honey:

1. There is a frame inside the beehive. Just take it out slowly and sweep the bees into the box. The rest can be done with a honey shaker. Shake, the honey machine without shaking will cut off the dense layer. If there is no honey shaker, be sure to leave at least three to four frames. Two of the boxes are large. Leave half naturally and take half.

2. When taking honey, you can squeeze it with your hands wearing disposable plastic gloves, or use a spatula to press it in the pot. In winter, a fire must be lit, otherwise honey will not flow out. Don't make the fire too big.

3. Finally, you need to use a filter, which is finer than the window screen. You can use a clean cloth.

Natural honey:

1. Natural honey is brewed by bees collecting nectar. They come from the intrafloral nectaries or external nectaries of plants. Usually what we call honey is natural honey. Because it comes from different nectar plants, it is divided into various single-floral honeys based on the flowering period of a certain plant, such as orange Flower nectar, linden honey, lychee honey, acacia honey, milkvetch honey, rapeseed honey, jujube honey, wild osmanthus honey, longan honey, wild chrysanthemum honey, wolf tooth honey, etc.

2. Although bees only collect nectar from one kind of plant at a certain period, most honey often contains pollen or nectar from several types of plants. For example: Southern lychee flowers are followed by longan at the end of the flower period. At the end of the rapeseed flowering period, milkvetch flowers bloom, so longan honey must contain lychee honey, and at the beginning of milkvetch nectar flow, there must be a small amount of rapeseed honey.

3. Generally, honey is named after the flower name of one or several main sources. Generally speaking, the proportion of pollen from a certain single flower nectar plant is absolutely dominant. For example, in linden tree honey from the Northeast, linden tree pollen should be absolutely dominant, and the honey color is white and moist. However, there is also honey obtained from many plants blooming at the same time. Because it has two or more pollen mixed together, it is generally called mixed flower honey, or "hundred-flower" honey.