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Honey Super and Queen Excluder in Beekeeping
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By providing pre-printed honey or plastic, or leaving honey and wax from honey harvest, beekeepers can give bees a head start to produce honey without making wax. The Queen Excluder tool also helps separate honey supers from brood chambers and ensures the production of pure honey without any eggs, but bees can collect nectar and store honey in these chambers.
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In beekeeping, a queen excluder is used to prevent the queen from laying eggs in a honey super, ensuring that the honey remains pure and untouched by larvae.
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In beekeeping, a queen excluder is used to prevent the queen from laying eggs in a honey super, ensuring that the honey remains pure and untouched by larvae. It is a mesh or slatted barrier that is spaced far enough for the worker bees to pass through but too small for the queen to pass.
ChapterHoney Super and Queen Excluder in Beekeeping
EpisodeSelects: The Ins and Outs of Beekeeping
PodcastStuff You Should Know
Pre-printed honeycomb or leaving old wax can help bees conserve energy and honey, resulting in more honey production for beekeepers.
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Pre-printed honeycomb or leaving old wax can help bees conserve energy and honey, resulting in more honey production for beekeepers.
ChapterHoney Super and Queen Excluder in Beekeeping
EpisodeSelects: The Ins and Outs of Beekeeping
PodcastStuff You Should Know
Chuck and Josh play a game of 20 questions to help listeners learn how to properly identify different shapes, including a cheat to refer them all as polygons.
39:19 - 39:56 (00:36)
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Chuck and Josh play a game of 20 questions to help listeners learn how to properly identify different shapes, including a cheat to refer them all as polygons.