6. Harvesting and processing honey from your honeybees

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How to Harvest Honey from your Beehive

Africanized honey bees are a non‑native, invasive strain of Apis mellifera that can disrupt pollinator communities, alter plant reproduction, and increase risks to wildlife and people across the Americas. Their impacts on native bees are strongest through competition for food and nesting sites, disease and parasite transmission, and the way dense, aggressive colonies reshape which plants get pollinated. Africanized bees originated as hybrids between African and European honey bees released in Br

An Africanized honey bee colony functions like a superorganism because the individual bees act less like separate animals and more like specialized “cells” inside a single large body. Within the hive, different bees specialize in tasks the way tissues and organs do in a body. Nurses care for brood, cleaners sanitize cells, guards defend, and foragers gather food, all coordinated without any central commander. The queen is essentially the colony’s reproductive organ, while workers are the somatic