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Frank, who is John Muir's
next door neighbour, is the bee keeper of Elliot Lake and he kindly
allowed me to photograph him taking some honey from one of his hives.
Getting the smoke ready
As I understand it Frank smokes the hive first
as that not only makes them drousy but as they think the hive might be on
fire they take some of the honey which also means they are much less
likely to sting you. While the smoke takes affect Frank dons his Bee
Keeping suit for protection
Frank takes out the full Cones
Frank replaces the full cones with empty ones
And caught in the act taking the pictures and
these two and the two below are courtesy of John!
Just noticed we had an observer appear next
door :-)
And there is the full cone with lots of Honey
And there are three more to process
And the finished product ready to eat with our
toast in the morning and many thanks for that Frank! |
