Harvesting honey from giant honey bees
Harvesting honey from colonies of giant honey bees, Apis breviligula and Apis dorsata can be a profitable village enterprise. Smoke is used to drive away the bees from their nest. The honeycomb is cut and separated from the pollen and brood. The comb is processed in a honey house to limit contamination. Dehumidification is done when necessary to lower the moisture content to at least 23 percent. Extracted and dehumidified honey is bottled in glass jars.
Author: The University of the Philippines Los Banos (UPLB)
Organization: The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Year: 2020
Country/ies: Philippines
Geographical coverage: Asia and the Pacific
Type: Practices
Full text available at: https://teca.apps.fao.org/en/technologies/8263/
Content language: English