One day before the honey harvest, the beehives are prepared for the extraction of the honey:

• Under the two honey rooms, an intermediate floor with bee escape is placed. It is a kind of sluice, which can be passed by the bees only from top to bottom. The bees follow the queen's scent downwards. Thus the honey rooms become largely bee-free.
• Since the bees have hardly any food supplies in the brood chamber, and because they are cut off from their supplies by the bee flight, there is an empty frame with some sugar syrup under the intermediate floor.
• Between the feed frame and the brood chamber there is a foil, which is folded over at one corner to give the bees only a small access to the feed. Thus they recognize the empty space in the feed frame as "outside their home" and do not use it to build new honeycombs or to store the feed.

Thus prepared, nothing stands in the way of a rich honey harvest tomorrow.

After the harvest, the ejected honey-moist combs are placed back on the feeder frame for a few days to be licked out and repaired - without an intermediate shelf.