The main flow of honey takes place to half-full principles or of summer, and some beekeepers also usually take advantage of another flow to end  the summer season.

One exists regulates basic: not to extract honey until making sure that the colony will not need it in winter, and only must be extracted the excesses of the necessities of the colony.  The objective of the colony is to arrive at the end of the season with the amount from honey and necessary provisions so that it can spend the winter in his zone.

The pictures with the honey remove from the beehive using the citaera or spatula, is cepillan to remove the adhered bees. They are placed in empty rises and they take either to some place prepared  next to colmenar with mosquito nettings to avoid looting and punctures, or to the address of the beekeeper where without oppression nor heats it will be come to the extraction of the honey.

In order to extract the honey more the used system is the centrifugalization of the honeycombs. There are some cases in that the beehive is very producing and not opercula the honey. If the honey does not fall it is that already she is ready to be harvested.

Once we have the honeycombs with the honey,  it will be come  to the desoperculado one of the honeycombs, that is to say, to clear the wax layer to him that covers the cells. There are two systems to desopercular: first it consists of clearing it with a knife that goes through the picture cutting the wax. The other is the desoperculador to steam is a hollow leaf of knife, accompanied by a boiler,  around where water steam circulates. In order to eliminate the opérculos leans the picture in the tray to desopercular, soon with the knife is cut to the opérculos doing movement of swing of down upwards, thus, the opérculos slide by the knife and fall in the screen of the tray.

Once released the honey of the opérculos it is come to the extraction from the same one, that is made with the call Extractor.  All the extractors are of stainless steel and are based on the centrifugal force. There are them manual and electrical from capacity for 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 and to 48 pictures per time.

Soon the extracted honey happens through a filtrate, that consists of a double strainer, where its superior part is of ample mesh but that the inferior one. The filtrate of the honey must be made by gravity, to prevent that the impurities cover the mesh. Finally the obtained honey of the filtrate deposits in tanks  or cans for its later transfer to  the cooperative where the final packaging was made.