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wax cappings, the knife is often heated. The removed bits of wax, called cappings, are rich in honey which can be slowly drained off with the help of some heating. This 'cappings wax' is very valuable and often used to make candles or other products. Automated uncapping machines normally work by abrading the surface of the wax with moving chains or bristles or hot knives. This, while messy, makes the process easier than doing this task manually.
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reclaimed by the bees. This must be done early in the morning or late in the evening as the bees will aggressively harvest such a rich source. Care must be taken so that this is done at a time when food is not scarce, or else bees from differing colonies will fight over the honey. In addition, this can spread disease from contaminated frames and can be a potential problem; this technique is not advised.
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collection vessel. The bees normally show no sign of disturbance, and any bees in the flow frame at the time are not harmed. Clean honey can be produced and filtration is not normally required. The system is then reset and the bees clean up any remaining honey, remove the capping, and refill the cells, beginning the process again.
171:, which since the mid 1800s have been the most common variety of hive, and are normally furnished with frames including artificial support. Significant labour is required to disassemble the hives and process the honey, then clear up the mess, so it is usual to extract honey from each hive only once a year.
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and the cells with honey. When the combs are full of ripe honey, the mechanism of the frames is activated, the vertical gaps are moved to offset by one half of a cell. This breaks the wax seal and allows the honey to flow down through the cells into a channel at the base of each frame and out into a
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Any honey that cannot be harvested, which includes crystallized honey left on the frames after extraction, or honey that is not capped over, and therefore unripened, is usually placed back into the colonies for the bees to clean up. Some beekeepers place wet frames outside so that it will be
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200:The table below outlines the extraction process.
223:Remove hive outer cover from top of the beehive
268:Remove all frames that have honey but no brood
262:and only remove frames that are without brood.
181:Once uncapped, the frames are then placed in a
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637:Romeo, Claudia (21 November 2016).
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1107:Varroa sensitive hygiene
887:Apis mellifera siciliana
866:Apis mellifera monticola
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1026:Horizontal top-bar hive
929:Apis mellifera unicolor
908:Apis mellifera sossimai
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