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 Langstroth-style hives |   hive See itSee beehive See also: Starter Hive |
 Hive body containing two brood boxes | hive body See it the portion of the beehive that holds the frames, consisting of one or more hive boxes See also: Starter Hive, frame, hive box |
 Empty brood box  Fully-assembled hive box (honey super), containing frames |  hive box  See ita wooden box that encloses the frames (shown here both without and with frames); either a brood box or a honey super. All the hive boxes on a beehive together comprise the hive body. See also: Starter Hive, brood box, honey super |
 Elevated hive stand | hive stand  See ita structure that supports the hive to keep the hive body off the ground; also referred to as an elevated hive stand. Some vendors call the support frame for a landing board a hive stand, but this use of the term is a misnomer. See also: Starter Hive, elevated hive stand |
 Frame Lifter & Scraper | hive tool  See ita metal device used to open hives, pry frames apart, and scrape beeswax and propolis from the hive parts See also: Hive Tools |
 High-capacity hive-top feeder | hive-top feeder See it 1) tray made of wood or plastic that sits atop a beehive's brood boxes or supers and holds syrup (sugar water) for feeding bees; 2) a jug or bottle that sits atop a beehive's inner cover and within an empty brood box and holds syrup. There are many advantages to using a hive-top feeder over either a Boardman feeder or a division board feeder. See also: Dual-Access Hive-top Feeder |
| honey See it a thick, sweet liquid manufactured by honeybees from the nectar of flowering plants. Bees store honey in their nest for use during the winter as food for the larvae and the rest of the colony in the beehive. The color and flavor of honey depends on the flowers from which the nectar is gathered. Honeybees are so productive that a typical colony produces more honey than they can eat, called surplus honey. This is the source of the honey we enjoy. Many varieties of honey are identified by the flower from which they are made, such as clover honey and wildflower honey. Humans are not the only creatures that love honey -- many wild animals seek out the golden, liquid treasure, especially bears, raccoons and skunks. Honey is made of a mixture of dextrose and fructose, which is dissolved in about 17 percent water. Honey also contains small amounts of sucrose, minerals, vitamins, proteins (from pollen grains) and enzymes. |
 apis mellifera (Western honeybee) | honeybee See it the common European, or Western, honeybee (species apis mellifera), primarily raised and tended by beekeepers. The honeybee has also escaped into the wild wherever there are suitable, temperate environmental conditions. Apis mellifera (a.m.) is kept in most regions of the world for its honey, beeswax, propolis and collected pollen. The species has developed into several subspecies ( races), which differ slightly in size, color, gentleness and productivity. See also: apis mellifera, wasp |
 Capped and uncapped (uncured) honey in the honeycomb | honeycomb See it wax comb in a beehive; most typically meaning the comb where the bees store honey, versus the comb containing the brood cells, where the young bees develop |
 | honeydew a sweet liquid excreted by aphids, leafhoppers, and some scale insects that is collected by bees, especially in the absence of a good source of nectar |
| honey extractor a machine used to remove honey from frames of honeycomb that have been removed from beehives; the frames are mounted inside the extractor and spun at high speeds, slinging the honey out of the comb cells by centrifugal force. |
 The white cappings indicate a honeyflow | honeyflow See it times during the year in which natural sources of pollen and nectar are plentiful; a honeyflow is indicated by the presence of new, white-colored beeswax and many honeycomb cells filled with uncapped nectar and pollen. |
| honey gate a faucet used for drawing honey from drums, cans, or extractors |
| honey house building used for extracting honey and storing equipment |
| honey pump a pump used to transfer honey from a sump or extractor to a holding tank or strainer |
| honey stomach an organ in the abdomen of the honey bee used for carrying nectar, honey, or water |
| honey sump a clarifying tank between the extractor and honey pump for removing the coarser particles of comb introduced during extraction |
 "Super Super" | honey super See it a hive box placed atop the brood chambers, used exclusively to store surplus honey. The honey supers are reserved only for honey by excluding the queen from the supers. See also: Starter Hive, hive box |
| hygentic a genetic trait of certain honeybee strains that causes them to be more hygienic, so the hive is cleaner and the bees are better groomed; some research indicates that superior grooming causes the bees to be more resistant to varroa mites. |
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