How to rob honey

Honey isn't harvested, it's robbed. We engaged in our first smash and grab a few months ago and now that the excitement has died down I'm able to let you into the wonderful world of bees! I will keep the words to a minimum as the photos are pretty much self explanatory.

Nat looking cute as a button in her Bee suit

firing up the smoker

Opening the hive. Smoke for some unknown reason calms bees down. It is believed that smoke triggers a time to move hose instinct and they load up on honey and as a result become docile.

Our girls

Decapping the comb with a heated knife.

Frames go in the extractor

Extractor cranks up the G's and sends the honey flying

Honey with some yucky bits comes flowing out

Goes through a fine sieve and we are all done (but for an hour clean up)

Pretty easy hey. We got 18 Kg of honey from our first harvest. If your lucky we might let you try some.