How Royal Jelly and Propolis Are Harvested

Royal jelly is harvested by encouraging worker bees to produce queen bees through the use of movable frame hives. The royal jelly is then collected from each individual queen honeycomb cell after about four days. To harvest Propolis, special inserts are placed in the hives that provide spaces that mimic holes or cracks in the hive. To protect the hive, bees fill these cracks with propolis. That sheet or plastic frame is taken out and frozen to then shake off the propolis.

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