Beekeeping: How Honey is Made

Video Transcript

"Now I want to break one of my own rules because I want to shaw you something. I am going to shake the bees off of here and the honey is being made right today. So I will take this honey comb and you will see I will shake out all the I will shake out some new nectar and you will see it on the top of the combs there. See that nectar? Thats a lot of nectar thats just what they brought in today. Now I have made a lot of work for them. They have to pick all of that back up. But that amount of nectar comes in. In a day and they can actually one bee hive can make up to thirty pounds of honey in a day. If it is really a good day and when the bring in new nectar they will have to bring in perhaps forty pounds of nectar. By the time they get the moisture dried down over night then that gain is much less that the forty pounds. "