Off Season: Processing Wax & Frame Storage » Beekeeping & Farming Japan » Ōmishima, Imabari, Ehime

Описание: Some necessary off-season tasks you might not think of, when you think of beekeeping: wax processing, wax frame storage, and keeping those pesky pest wax moths far, far away.

This video shows our process to sort, clean, and store, wax frames (both foundation frames and our preferred naturally drawn foundation-free frames) over the winter, until the honeybees need them again next spring. We don't want to waste any of the bees' hard work building out these frames! And when the 'sakura' cherry blossoms start blooming again, we want them to immediately begin filling comb with delicious honey, instead of having to start from scratch. More work for us, but less work for the honeybees!

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