Saturday 21 February 2015

I Have Often Heard Of The Term 'Honey Trap',

used in police sting type operations,


 but I never thought there was an actual honey trap, until now,

 it is the brain child of father and son beekeepers Stuart and Cedar Anderson, called Flow™ the system eliminates the traditional process of honey extraction where frames are removed from beehives, opened with hot knives, and loaded into a machine that uses centrifugal force to get the honey out, here is how the Andersons explain their design,

'the Flow frame consists of already partly formed honeycomb cells, the bees complete the comb with their wax, fill the cells with honey and cap the cells as usual, when you turn the tool, a bit like a tap, the cells split vertically inside the comb forming channels allowing the honey to flow down to a sealed trough at the base of the frame and out of the hive while the bees are practically undisturbed on the comb surface, when the honey has finished draining you turn the tap again in the upper slot resets the comb into the original position and allows the bees to chew the wax capping away, and fill it with honey again' what a great way to extract honey and without disturbing the bees.


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