Four steps to honey extraction

What are the 4 steps to honey extraction?

First, the method of taking honey.

1. Squeezing honey, this method of extracting honey is the oldest, and there are many ways to take it. Generally, the honey is taken out by squeezing after the honeycomb is cut, and some are even directly pinched by hand, and then the impurities are filtered with a strainer. Listening to the words of bees, I feel that this method makes people feel a little unhygienic.

There are still many people who use this "soil" method in soil bee raising.

2. Distillation honey extraction, this method is improved on the basis of pressing honey, mainly for hygiene. The honey flows out automatically due to thermal expansion and contraction by heating through water. This method looks hygienic and clean, but listening to the words of bees, I feel that this method has two very big disadvantages, the first is that the method of distilling honey is too cumbersome and slow; The second is to distill honey because it needs to be heated, if the temperature is not well controlled, it will cause great damage to the nutrition of honey.

Even if the nutrients of honey are not destroyed, once the honey has been heated, it will not have the original flavor at the beginning. Distilled honey is used in both soil and live frame beekeeping.

3. Centrifugal honey extraction, centrifugal honey extraction method is now the most commonly used, and it is also the most used method. This method is easy to operate, fast, does not affect the nutrients, and the nest spleen can be reused, which has very outstanding advantages compared with the above two. The only small regret is that the honey shaker used in this method is not easy to clean, if it is not used for a few months, even if it is covered with a dust cloth, it may fall dust, and it is easy to fall dust or stain during handling, and it is easy to breed bacteria if it is not cleaned for a long time.

Therefore, listening to the words of the bee, I feel that if the conditions are ripe, it is necessary to carefully clean the honey bucket every time.

Second, the specific steps of honey extraction.

The honey extraction process is to uncover the bee bucket - take the honeycomb - shake the honey - filter - bottle, which can give you an intuitive understanding of the honey.

1. Unpack, check the situation of the bee barrel bees, find the queen bee, find out the queen bee, the queen bee is the largest one, and it should be longer.

2. Take the bee spleen.

3. Shake the bee spleen gently to let the little bee fly away.

4. Cut off a layer of beeswax from the bee's spleen.

5. Put it into the honey shaker to shake the honey.

6. Strain the shaken honey.

7. The filtered honey is bottled.

8. The fresh honey that has just been taken is left at room temperature for about a week and begins to crystallize, just like lard, and the color is very bright.

Precautions. 1. Before taking honey, be sure to wear good equipment.

2. When taking honey, the action should be light and careful.

In summary, the technology and methods of honey collection are constantly improving and improving, and some people have even developed beehives that automatically take honey, which has to be said to be more and more convenient and efficient for us beekeepers in the future.

1) Honey extraction tools.

There are mainly honey separators, honey cutters, honey filters, honey containers, bee sweeps, scrapers, smoke blowers, etc.

2) Bee removal. Depending on the size of the apiary and the number of honeycombs, there are several methods of bee removal:

Shake the spleen and get rid of the bee. Move the honey storage relay box from the bee colony, put it on the lid of the box that is turned over, add an empty relay box on the nest box of the bee colony, put 2 4 empty nest spleens on one side of the box, and then lift the honey spleen in turn, hold the frame ears with both hands, shake the bees attached to it suddenly up and down with wrist strength, shake the bees attached above to the empty space in the relay box, and then sweep a small amount of attached bees with a bee sweep, put them in the nest spleen carrying box, and cover it.

Beeplate debeeping.

The bee removal board is inlaid with a bee remover on the wooden sub-cover. There are 2-way, 6-way and multi-way bee removers. In the evening, add an empty spleen relay box to the nest box, add a bee board, and then add a honey storage relay box.

It takes about 12 hours for a repeater to remove the bee with a 2-way bee remover, about 6 hours for a 6-way bee, and only 2 hours for a multi-channel bee.

Repellent bee repellent.

In large-scale apiaries, in order to save the labor and time of bee shake and avoid bee sting, repellents can be used to remove bees. Benzoaldehyde and propionic acid or carbonic acid can be used. Benzoaldehyde and propionic acid have the effect of repelling bees.

First, a wooden frame with a thickness of 15 mm and a width of 40 mm is nailed to a wooden frame of the same size as the outer perimeter of the relay box, 6 layers of black cloth are nailed on it, and then a layer of iron sheet is nailed, and the surface is coated with black lacquer to increase the absorption of sunlight heat and evaporate the repellent. When using, first spray a few cigarettes into the honey storage box to expel the bees downward, and sprinkle 1:1 benzaldehyde or 1:1 on the cloth that takes off the bee cover

1 propionic acid, buckled on the relay box, after 3 5 minutes can drive the bees to the following box. Benzodehyde is used at 18 26 and propionic acid at 26 38. Repellents often have a peculiar smell and should not pollute the honeycomb.

If labor and time permit, it is best not to use repellents to remove bees.

Blowing bee machine to get off the bee.

Place the honey storage box on the iron frame of the bee blower, blow the air along the gap of the honeycomb with a nozzle, and blow the bees down to the nest door of the bee colony.

3) Separate the honey.

Honey separation (shake honey) should be done in a clean, clean room without burrows on all sides to prevent bees from entering the holes. Fix the honey separator to avoid the honey separator shaking violently when separating the honey, use the honey cutter to cut off the cover of the honey room, put the honey spleen with similar weight into the frame of the honey separator, and turn the honey separator to separate the honey.

In order to avoid honey compression of the queen bee's egg-laying area, when it is necessary to separate the honey on the spleen, it is necessary to avoid touching the spleen surface and slow down the rotation speed to avoid throwing out the larvae. The honey separator has 2 4 frame reversing, 2 4 frame live rotation, and a variety of models of multi-frame radiation, which are selected according to the scale of the apiary. It is best to coat the inside of the honey separator with a layer of beeswax to prevent rust, and clean it before and after use.

Honey is a product that is easier for beekeepers to obtain income, and the income of honey accounts for a particularly high proportion of the income of the entire apiary. It seems simple, but in fact, it is necessary to arrange the time for taking honey according to the climate of the region.

What time do bees get honey in the fall? The bee tribe might want to think of the question as when to take honey for sharing throughout the year. To take honey, first of all, it depends on whether it is soil or live frame breeding, and the method and time of honey are different depending on the cultivation method.

Spring should be early: bees in the spring after the weather warms up and begin to collect honey activities and bee colonies in spring, the outside world is the big flow of honey, after the rapid growth of the bee colony in spring, the honey production capacity will be greatly improved in a short period of time, honey should be taken early, to avoid the explosion of honey collection capacity so that the hive is filled with honey, if the honey in the beehive is sufficient, the bee's enthusiasm for honey collection will decline, so that it wastes its honey production ability, with the way of honey [1.].I can raise the enthusiasm of bees, 2

As a supporter, you can also have an extra income].

Summer to be diligent: into the early summer, a large number of nectar source plants bloom in the outside world, it can be said that a hundred flowers are blooming, the bee colony is also in full swing, the hive will soon be filled with a large amount of powder and honey, at this time the honey is more diligent, at the end of summer, the flowers are slowly withering with time, and the honey is gradually reduced.

Autumn to be stable: autumn, there is a nectar source of plants flowering increases, in Guizhou, like wild chrysanthemums, Senecio these are more, bee colonies are also stronger, honey needs to be cautious, must take the right amount of honey, not blindly, to do a good job in autumn multiplication, to the later stage of the need for a large number of bee colonies to raise larvae, the good and bad of autumn reproduction, directly affect the success or failure of the bee colony in winter, so take honey at the same time need to store enough wintering feed for the bee colony.

Winter to stop: winter in the southern region is honey is desirable, most areas can be taken once or twice, choose a strong group to draw the spleen, but in the winter to take honey must control the amount, not greedy to take more, do not do it well will bring the disaster of extinction, because the bee colony is the foundation of beekeeping, honey is gone, the next year can be taken again, the bee is gone, the loss is great.

Summary: beekeeping to extract honey, if it is a native bee colony, then you can only take honey twice a year, because the native bee colony to take honey is to cut off the whole spleen, take honey to destroy the nest, will lose a part of the larvae, to wait for the bee colony to recreate the spleen to give birth to reproduction, it takes a lot of time and honey resources, not as simple as taking honey from the live frame, cut off the cover and put it in the honey shaker. Therefore, every beekeeper needs to decide the timing of honey according to the climate of the area, the strength of the bee colony and other factors.

Honey shaker. The first step in shaking honey is to remove the bees, that is, to remove the bees that live on the honeycomb. The current method used is to shake the bees by hand.

The second step is to cut the honey cover. Place the honeycomb on the wooden board in the large basin, and slowly push the knife edge with a honey cutter to keep the incision of the lid flat and not deform the nest. The third step is to put the cut honeycomb into the spleen basket of the honey shaker, shake the handle of the honey shaker, from slow to fast, and then from fast to slow, shake one side and then change the side.

When changing the dough, you only need to withdraw the spleen with both hands, and insert it into the nest spleen basket in a cross reversal.

In terms of the maturity of honey, it is better to take honey in the morning. If the bee collects honey in the morning and shakes the honey in the afternoon, the water in the nectar does not have time to evaporate, and the polysaccharide disaccharide conversion in the nectar is not sufficient, so the honey shaken out is immature honey. If the honey collected on the same day has been processed by the bees overnight, it will be better to take it the next morning.

The production process of honey is that bees collect nectar or secretions from other plants, inject biological enzymes, and then store them in the hive, and finally obtain mature honey after continuous brewing, and then seal the wax cap, and the beekeeper takes out the hive spleen to shake the honey and filter the honey, and finally obtains the honey we eat.

In fact, there are two ways to take honey, one is the most primitive, that is, the whole nest spleen is cut off from the bee bucket, and then the honey in the nest spleen is squeezed out by squeezing, but this method is very rare now, unless it is a small number of people, and this way is used to take honey. There is also a very popular one now, which uses centrifugal force to share the honey on the nest spleen, so that it will not hurt the nest spleen, and the honey taken down in this way is more hygienic and clean.

Here's how to get honey in the traditional way:

First cut off this honey piece by piece from the beehive, and the second step is like filtering tofu in the countryside, breaking this big honey block with something, and then filtering and squeezing it, which is the same as making tofu in the countryside and filtering.

Drop like this first, and wait for it to flow down little by little. In the end, it's just a matter of squeezing it with your hands or something. If you are more hygienic, use a stick to beat it.

The second way of taking honey is called centrifugal honey extraction, which is also the most common method used now, but it requires equipment.

Using the method of centrifugal honey extraction, the honey taken out is more hygienic and cleaner, and the taste of mountains and seas will answer for you.

Large quantities of honey should be packaged in cylinders, wooden barrels, plastic barrels, etc., and special packaging containers should be thoroughly washed and wiped dry. In areas with high honey production, honey storage tanks can be established, and wooden barrels or water tanks can also be used for storage, and the barrels and tanks used should be free of peculiar smells.

The packaged honey should not be filled, especially when transporting, leaving a space of 25 30 to prevent the honey from spilling out or bursting when it is heated and shaken. The honey should be kept in a dry, clean, ventilated and odorless room, and the room temperature should be kept at 5 10. Do not leave the honey bucket in the open air for a long time, and transfer it in time to ensure the quality of the honey.

Honey is a weakly acidic food, and the container for storing honey is best to use glass or ceramic utensils, not metal utensils such as iron and lead, so as not to contaminate the honey with free heavy metals.

Honey stored in non-toxic plastic bottles should not be too long. Honey packed in containers is best sealed with a lid and protected from contact with moist air to avoid fermentation. It should be kept in a clean, cool and ventilated place, preferably in the refrigerator, and be careful to avoid contamination.

Honey is a solution that contains a variety of nutrients such as glucose, fructose, and rice. As glucose has the property of being easy to crystallize. Therefore, the separated honey, left at a lower temperature, for a period of time, the glucose will gradually crystallize.

The speed of its crystallization is related to the core of the grape crystal, temperature, moisture and nectar source. If you want to melt the crystallized honey, you can put the honey jar in a pot of boiling water and heat it, and do not put the honey directly on the fire to grill. It is worth noting that when honey is heated to 37 -40, it loses its efficacy, so be careful not to overheat.

The main component of honey is sugar, similar to the composition of white sugar, which can be digested and absorbed as an energy substance, and beekeepers will use an appropriate amount of syrup to supplement the bees after cutting the honey.

Briefly give you a brief introduction to the beekeeper harvesting process of du honey: zhi1, first of all, see whether it is successful.

When ripening honey harvesting, if the DAO fruit is ripe, prepare internal tools: scraper, glove capacity, bee brush, honey shaker, etc.

2. Open the beehive, take out the bee spleen, shake off the bees on it, and brush it clean with a brush if you can't shake it off.

3. Cut off the beeswax cap with a honey cutter.

4. Put the honey spleen into the honey bucket and use centrifugal action to sieve out the honey.

5. After filtering, pour it out, put it into a clean white non-toxic plastic food bucket, and seal it for preservation.

In addition, some wild honey is not shaken, but directly shoveled out with a spatula.