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How you make the bees leave the shallow boxes. Collecting the honey
A "soft" technique is used utilising the bee escape: it is a diaphragm with a special exit that permits the bees to descend to the nest but not to go up again into the shallow boxes. After a couple of days, the shallow boxes are free from bees and can be taken to the laboratory to extract the honey by centrifuge. This operation can be seen in our videos that you can download. The use of bag filters to entrap impurities is avoided wherever possible because they also entrap a notable quantity of pollen. Normally, metal mesh filters are used for the final filtering after an adequate decanting. Nomadism In May, the first movements start. The bees are moved in the zones for the production of Acacia honey after the collection of the honey production in the previous position and the recovery of any spring honey produced. Even the minimum presence of these honeys in the shallow boxes would pollute the acacia honey both in colour and taste. The bee communities Each bee community is composed of 48 beehives. The beehives are positioned on an appropriate metal framework to permit the loading and unloading of the beehives four at a time with the assistance of a crane mounted on a vehicle. They are loaded in the evening when the worker bees, the bees employed in the collection of nectar have re-entered the beehives (or early in the morning before they start to fly). Our beekeeper Roberto prefers to load in the evening. At night you work faster, the darkness keeps the bees calmer and obviously they suffer less with the heat. A delay at night can be handled better; during the day it can be a disaster. If there are no problems you can wait until the first light of day to unload, otherwise you unload on arrival at the destination with the artificial light of headlamps. The danger for the bees is the overheating of the beehives; the honey, above all fresh honey that has not been dehumidified is very liquid. Overheating could make it melt even further and make it pour onto the bees which therefore could not use the movement of their wings to create the necessary ventilation. Times of the honeys production After the collection of the acacia honey, a part of the beehives are transported in the Casentino area for the blossoming of the chestnut trees. Only at this point is it decided to possibly take advantage of the blossoming of the linden trees and honeysuckle. Subsequently, if there is the rare and difficult production of fir honeydew, the so-called Manna, the beehives are transferred in the white fir forests of Camaldoli and Vallombrosa. This occurs between July and August. If the fir does not produce honeydew, or if the honeydew is there but the weather conditions do not stimulate the bees to work (it's four years that the weather conditions have not been right, but this year it seems that the miracle is repeating itself and maybe there will be a production of the rare white fir honeydew) the production of other honeydews is carried out on the plain and also ivy honey. The last honey of the season and the last possibility of production is the arbutus honey that occurs between October and November and also in this case, good weather conditions, little rain and not excessive cold are essential for a good production. After which the bees return to their winter station and the cycle of the bee community recommences. This video film about the yearly nomad apiculture life that allows you to see the "birth" of the honey which nobody up until now has put on the web and that few have had the privilege to see live. Entering and navigating in the website www.adottalvearibio.com you will live the emotion of participating live in one of the most beautiful miracles of nature; the production of extremely high-quality biological Italian honey. As always, welcome amongst the E-breeders. |
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