When the beekeeper opens the hive he uses a ’smoker’ . It tells the bees that there is a fire danger and they dash in and store up on honey thinking they will be burned out and have to make their hive in another place. They store enough honey so they can live long enough [...]
July 24, 2008
More Pictures of the Beehive and Beekeeper
Here are more pictures of my visit to the beehive…I’ll post more tomorrow.
When the trays are completely covered then the honey can be harvested. The beekeeper takes the surplus and leaves enough trays for the bees’ needs. The beekeeping inspects the trays for certain insects that invade the hive. He has to monitor it often [...]
