Use of a modified breast-milk pump in the apiary

[Amari]

Well, not my apiary but that of BeatriceT who posted on the Welcome Forum on 9th March 'Greetings from Penang Island, Malaysia' ( apologies, I cannot work out how to attach the link, how do you do it?).
BeatriceT was our splendid guide on a national park jungle walk when SHMBO and I stopped off in Penang on the return from a family visit in Oz. As she says in her post she and her husband run a fruit farm as well as keeping bees - both honey bees and stingless bees. She showed me the pic of her method of extracting honey from the stingless colonies, a modified breast-milk pump!
I hope BeatriceT will add further details to this thread.

 

[Firefly]

Yikes. Flow hive!

 

[theeggman]

Amari,

You have a PM.

This is the link in question:

http://www.beekeepingforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=32817

 

[Anduril]

Ingenious! Offers a good sucking action.

 

[dpearce4]

I love it but I don't think my wife would be to impressed if I asked to borrow hers.

couldn't use it for milk after cose of the risk of infant botulism after lol

 

[Amari]

I love it but I don't think my wife would be to impressed if I asked to borrow hers.

couldn't use it for milk after cose of the risk of infant botulism after lol

Sounds as though it's time to wean the infant.

 

[Beatrice T]

Well, not my apiary but that of BeatriceT who posted on the Welcome Forum on 9th March 'Greetings from Penang Island, Malaysia' ( apologies, I cannot work out how to attach the link, how do you do it?).
BeatriceT was our splendid guide on a national park jungle walk when SHMBO and I stopped off in Penang on the return from a family visit in Oz. As she says in her post she and her husband run a fruit farm as well as keeping bees - both honey bees and stingless bees. She showed me the pic of her method of extracting honey from the stingless colonies, a modified breast-milk pump!
I hope BeatriceT will add further details to this thread.

Amari I do not have the normal honey bees that attack and sting but only the cute harmless stingless that give you a little bite when they are gravely agitated.

Like I mentioned in my earlier post I am just starting out as a beekeeper and I am still on my upward learning curve. I am here to learn from all of you who have much more experience than I. Cheers

 

[Beatrice T]

Amari I do not have the normal honey bees that attack and sting but only the cute harmless stingless that give you a little bite when they are gravely agitated.

Like I mentioned in my earlier post I am just starting out as a beekeeper and I am still on my upward learning curve. I am here to learn from all of you who have much more experience than I. Cheers

I need to post 10 times before I could attach any pix or link, so here I am again
I have to amend my earlier post - there ARE normal honey bees on the farm but I do not know how to 'domesticate' them yet.

 

[Amari]

I need to post 10 times before I could attach any pix or link, so here I am again
I have to amend my earlier post - there ARE normal honey bees on the farm but I do not know how to 'domesticate' them yet.

Thanks BeatriceT. Can you tell us how you deploy the pump to extract honey? Do you just poke a suction tube through a hole blindly into the combs or is there a door you can open?