Traditional Japanese honey harvest. Apis cerana japonica

Next step, extracting honey    • Cutting the honeycomb to extract hone...   squeezing honey    • Squeezing remaining honey in combs.  ...   Hive dimensions
This hive is the most common way in Japan to keep Japanese honeybees (Apis cerana japonica) as a hobby. But we use Langstroth hive to keep imported western bees. To know more about Japanese bees, please visit my website. Japanese natural beekeeping
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