13/05/2014
This subject deserves a post all to itself. By far this has been the best Primary Research I have ever carried out. I know I carried it out late in this project; however it was finding the time and a day where it was good weather, to go visit my mum's work colleague Pat who keeps Honeybee's as her hobby. I am extremely thankful that Pat allowed me to visit her Honeybee's to take photographs as well as giving me more knowledge on them. I found the whole thing fascinating and informational, it was also brilliant to get dressed up in a Beekeeping suite and to get up close to the Honeybee's themselves. The image below is of a few of her Hives she keeps within field that grows Rapeseed, which gives the Honeybee's plenty of pollen to produce Honey.
These next two images are of the frames within the Hive where the Honeybee's will produce honey. Once the Honeybee's (Worker Bee's (female)) have filled the cells they will cap them off, which you can see below to the right. Once the whole frame has been capped off Pat will remove it and extract all of the Honey.
These next images are of the Colony of this Hive. The cells that have been filled is not Homey it is in fact the eggs of the Queen Honeybee. Due to good luck I was able to in fact (after checking 2 other hives) witness the Queen Bee within her colony. The bottom two images contain the Queen Bee; so that Pat can spot her when checking the Hives she paint her back a bright yellow (not harmful).
(Painted yellow spot, Queen Bee is in middle of images)
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