When is the best time to harvest honey?

It can be picked in all seasons except winter.

In general, during the period from late autumn to spring when there are few flowers, bees will consume the stored honey. When the larvae hatch in early spring, it is the period with the least honey stock. From then on, the stock of honey began to recover with the opening of flowers. With the reduction of smallpox in summer, the stock of honey began to decrease. The amount of honey brought back by bees is about 20mg at a time.

There are two kinds of beekeeping: mobile beekeeping and fixed beekeeping. Fixed beekeeping is to collect the nectar of open flowers in one place one by one according to the flowering period. Mobile beekeeping moves from south to north from spring to summer according to the flowering period of specific flowers. It depends. Spring is early, summer is diligent, and autumn can be stable.

The habit of honey

Bees live in a social structure composed of queen bees, worker bees and drones. The queen bee is responsible for laying eggs and breeding, the worker bees are responsible for collecting nectar and pollen, building hives and raising young bees, and the drones mate with the queen bee. Bees will build hives together. They use wax secretions to build hexagonal honeycombs and store nectar and pollen in them. The hexagonal structure of honeycomb can maximize the use of space and provide strength and stability.

Collecting nectar and pollen by worker bees is one of the important tasks of bees. They suck nectar and store it in special beehives. At the same time, they also spread pollen during the collection process and promote plant reproduction. Bees transmit information through special dance language. When worker bees find a rich source of nectar, they will show other bees the direction and distance of nectar by dancing. Bees store and preserve food by converting nectar into honey.