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It was too hot but I needed to go through my boxes tonight.
They are roaring right now after a late start. Excess rain in June washed a lot of pollen off of flowers and slowed down the honey flow and development in my area. Right now it's dry and hot but white clover is bloomed everywhere and my alfalfa field has been bloomed all week and the guy who is getting it isn't mowing...not my problem but the bees love it.
I've got a couple of hives with 4 honey supers and a couple with 2-3.
3 weeks ago I had made a box for comb honey and put it on a hive. They had t touched it for 2 weeks, it this week they had 8 frames full, so I'll have at least 30 pieces of comb honey to sell. I'm going to make some more frames and try to get another 10-20 frames of that because it sells for more money.
I weed eater around the hives, opened every box and they were as calm as could be. The saskatraz queen is doing work and they look great. If it rains and holds off the dirth a little while I'll have a great production year even if I don't have as many hives as I'd hoped.
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