First honey of the season. The second established hive will probably give about 10 times as much.
This hive died, the queen didn’t make it and they were not able to rear a new one quickly enough. When I checked it today, it was totally dead, so I harvested the honey in the super and closed up the brood chamber with some apivar.
In the fall I will get this one going again. My other hive is doing amazing.
Mite counts were low on both hives, and I do preventative treatments.
Before you do: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-problem-with-honey-bees/
I keep several wild.bee “hotels” on my property too.
Thank you for the link. I hadn’t considered the impact honey bees would have on native pollinators. I guess I always thought of honey bees, when people referred to bees in general. Thanks to a little additional digging I found out my state agriculture dept has an official Apiarist. I’m going to go over their website this weekend when I have more time