Coconut shells are used to make honey harvesting easy and to decrease the mortality rate of young bees or the brood. The usual way of harvesting honey from wild colonies destroys a large portion of the nest. The bees spend long time to mend the damaged nest. This problem is minimized by the method described here, where the coconut shell serves as the “honey chamber” equivalent to the honey super in modern bee hives. A major advantage of this method is that there is no need to relocate the nests. Wild populations of bees are therefore conserved. A coconut shell is simply added to an already established colony. This technology is adapted from Bees for Development 2003, volume 67.