University of MN Bee Lab est.2016 |
Offices
Main Hallway - Freezers for experiments - to lab rooms |
Observation hives room. The bees cannot see red. So a red light is dark to them |
Work shop / Woodworking Tools |
Hot room for honey supers before extracting. Heated floor with dehumidifier on the wall |
40 frame Tangential Extractor. This type of extractor is very efficient. The extractor turns for only five minutes per cycle. A radial extractor by contrast, uses around a 15 minute cycle. |
The honey leaves the extractor and flows into a clarifier that is below the floor. From the clarifier the honey is pumped through a bag filter, then into the honey bulk tank. |