Summertime honey extraction, Traditional Japanese beekeeping, Apis cerana japonica. (with subtitles)

Published at : 23 Dec 2025

This video is a subtitled version of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4LD3CLzh_U

This video features a honey extraction from a very strong colony of native Japanese honeybees.

Next step, extracting honey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmTJ-tlK4KU
squeezing honey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPZ_UTm2agc

Hive dimensions https://www.japan-natural-beekeeping.org/post/hive

This hive is the most common way in Japan to keep Japanese honeybees (Apis cerana japonica) as a hobby. But we use Langstroth hive to keep imported western bees.


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