養蜂福利——智能蜂巢
Smart Beehive Is The Latest 'Buzz' Among Beekeepers!
養蜂福利——智能蜂巢
Honey, the rich gold liquid that we all love is the miraculous creation of industrious honey bees. However, while the delicious sweetener has been used for over 8,000 years, extracting it is still a laborious process that is stressful for both humans and bees
大家都愛吃的黃澄澄的蜂蜜是辛勤的蜜蜂的偉大創造。雖然人類享受香甜的蜂蜜已有8000多年之久，提取蜂蜜對人類和蜜蜂來說仍是繁雜的過程。
The process begins with a smoker to try keep bees calm. Beekeepers then split the boxes from the hive, remove the frames and cut the wax caps off from the honeycombs. After the honey is drained, they re-attach the frames inside the hives so that bees can start making honey all over again. In addition to being long and tedious, the process inevitably results in a sting or two. The archaic method also disorients bees and in some cases, even causes them to abandon their hives.
取蜜首先要用煙把蜜蜂薰暈，然後把蜂脾從蜂箱裏取出來，把覆蓋在蜂巢上的蜜蠟割掉。蜂蜜取出來後，採蜂人把蜂脾重新放入蜂巢，這樣蜜蜂就可以重新開始產蜜。這個過程不僅單調且耗時很長，還難免被蜜蜂蜇傷。傳統的方式在某些方面還會打亂蜜蜂的節奏，甚至導致它們放棄蜂巢。
Now, thanks to "Flow Hive," there may be a way to extract honey in a simpler, less stressful manner. Hailed as the first evolutionary change in beekeeping equipment in more than 150 years, the radical design is the brainchild of third-generation beekeepers Cedar and Stuart Anderson.
現在Flow Hive的問世，使採蜜變得更加簡單方便。它由Cedar和Stuart Anderson發明，是自150多年前採蜜技術改進後的又一次創新。
The Australian father and son team who have been working on perfecting the hive design for over a decade, achieved this by re-configuring honeycombs. Unlike current hives that allow bees to build the entire honeycomb, Flow Hives come equipped with sets of half-built plastic honeycombs that face each other. The industrious bees then complete the job by connecting the half-built combs, filling them up with honey and covering them with wax.
這對澳洲養蜂父子檔花了十年時間來研究蜂箱的重置，最後才發明出了Flow Hive。Flow Hive不像傳統蜂箱那樣讓蜜蜂自建蜂巢，它提前準備好了垂直相對的半個塑料蜂巢，然後讓勤勞的蜜蜂去完成剩下的半個，在裏面產蜜，然後用蜂蠟覆蓋蜂巢。
When it's time to harvest, beekeepers simply turn a key which splits open the plastic combs vertically. This allows the golden honey to flow to a sealed trough that is situated at the base of the frame and out of the hive. Once all the honey has been drained, a turn of the key resets the plastic combs back into the original positions, allowing the bees to restart the process.
到了收穫的時節，養蜂人只需通過按鍵把塑料蜂巢垂直打開，金黃的蜂蜜就會順着蜂巢底部連接在外的內槽流出來。蜂蜜流光後，只需再次按鍵把打開的塑料蜂巢歸位即可，然後就可以讓蜜蜂繼續產蜜了。
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