Even though it's her first year building up the colony from a wee nuc, Sean and Iris found so much honey in Malka's hive they pulled out a frame to give her more room to lay in (and not get the urge to swarm).
(Photo by Sean).
Humans have various ways of getting honey out of honeycomb, I have seen my favourite at Thai hotels' breakfast buffets which often have a frame of honeycomb straight from the hive (shown here with a small Iris).
So we read up about getting honey out without an extractor and tried to let it drip out overnight...
But honeycomb did not evolve to let honey drip out easily as that would be quite inconveniently sticky for the bees, and here in temperate Wellington it didn't come. So this morning Iris and I decided to put it in a more tropical spot, that being a car parked in the sun.
Unfortunately, it got too hot and the wax melted off the frame.
Fortunately,
Honey!!!
Looks and tastes like Clover, as does our lawn; and now also, a surprising amount of the kitchen.
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