The Corsican bee, the mellifica, is a crossing between the black bee and Italian. Its aggressive character made its reputation. The bee-keeper draws several products from his hives: honey, pollen, royal jelly and venom.

The harvest of honey, according to the working method chosen, transhumant or sedentary, is practised at the end of each flowering for mono-floral honeies, in August for honeies (all flowers) of mountain, and in November for the honey of cane-apple bush. This harvest is carried out according to 4 methods:

• the repulsive plate (proceeded chemical):  little used in the island where one privileges Bio quality.

• the blower: blowing apparatus bees to move away them during a time.

• drives out it bee: one separates the bees from honey while inserting an additional partition.

• the framework framework with brush and smoke: One sorts the laid executives and those full of honey. Used for Bio honey.

In each month its honey: February for rosemary, March, April, May, for the asphodel and the heather. Of at the end of June at at the end of July one finds honeies of chestnut and thyme. From August at September one collects that containing bramble. In September/that October of ivy. It is with the cane-apple bush which finishes the year. The richness of Corsican honeies comes as well from the flowers as of the fame as they convey.