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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