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uncapped frame
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October 5, 2014. Harvest:
Sam and Ken helped me harvest! It was much easier than I expected--but perhaps that's because most of the frames were uncapped honey. Reputable beekeeper sources told me that the honey was, in fact, ready to harvest--that the bees weren't capping it because they were stressed by the mites. So: it's good to eat, and it needed to be pulled off before I did any chemical mite treatments.
18 1/2 pounds of honey. And the bees seem like maybe they'll be ok. More mite tests are waiting.
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my new extractor!
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| extracting bucket |
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| Pile of Frames |
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Sam decapping with the fork
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in the extractor
spinning the honey
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on tap
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