So we decided that we are going to harvest some honey from the addition that we put on top and leave the rest of the honey for the bees for this winter.
I removed some of the frames from the super and you can see the cross comb where they built combs from one frame to another. Looking back we probably should not have made such a big opening for the bees to come up from below. Because the frames up top were not lined up with the top bars below the bees were trying to make the new combs connect to the top bars below and they had to curve them over in order to do that.
It was late in the season so I decided to just take a couple of frames and cut out only the capped honey from them as I don't think they will be adding any more honey up here this year.
I bought a nylon paint strainer and put it inside of our orange juice pitcher to let the honey strain through.
Originally I thought that I would just leave the bag wrapped over the top of the pitcher and let the honey strain through, but there was too much honey and the bag was sitting in the honey and not straining anymore. We remedied that by tying it to the cupboard handle and let it sit overnight.
Just over one quart from the two small frames that I took out. Not bad!
It is a very light colored honey.
