Saturday the 5th of July I opened both of the hives I had previously tried to harvest without much success and pulled off the top boxes of each. I was a little upset when I found that neither hive had begun repairing or using for that mater, the combs which had been damaged. I only got about 4# of honey from the worst one but the other yielded about 22 lbs. Most of the center comb from the later was empty. Not much of a harvest this year so far but at least these 2 hives are back to normal again and harvest will be much easier next year. The last hive is full in the top box and I may take a few bars from the new swarm hive as they are putting honey in the second box already.
This spring has been wet again and the nectar has not flowed to well for me at this end of the island but as long as the bees can stock up for winter I'll be happy. The three lesser swarm hives are slowly building up but I won't know for sure until Oct., whether to unite them or not. Feeding is definitely on my to do list for those three this autumn, am saving honey just for that purpose Later
This spring has been wet again and the nectar has not flowed to well for me at this end of the island but as long as the bees can stock up for winter I'll be happy. The three lesser swarm hives are slowly building up but I won't know for sure until Oct., whether to unite them or not. Feeding is definitely on my to do list for those three this autumn, am saving honey just for that purpose Later
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