Glistening honey in the cells -- almost harvest time! Bees remove water and chemically convert sucrose into simple sugars (fructose and glucose) to make honey. When the honey is 'ripe' (water content is <18%), the workers seal each cell with a cap. Well, if we can breed bees that do not cap their honey. it would make extraction much easier. I am ordering an uncapper today (May 28, 2003), which will cost $1,200 (the cheapest that I can afford!). July 2002. Viewed: 1314 times.
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Sealed honey has to be uncapped. This photo shows uncapping using an electrically heated knive. This is ok if you have less than 40 hives. Your hands will become very sore after a few hours. Viewed: 1313 times.
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students having fun working on the sweet stuff *Viewed: 1377 times.
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