In my last email, I talked about increasing the number of my hives. I had one hive swarm and captured the swarm into a
new hive.

The old have made new queens. I took a couple of those queens in their cocoon and created yet another new hive – and it
worked.

I put the old queen cells into a new small box with some frames and let them sit for a couple weeks. This lets the new
queen hatch and start running the hive.

The bees accepted the new queen from a different hive. I could tell they accepted her and were building out new honey
comb and she was laying new eggs. So they were ready to move into a new box to expand.

So I take the frames from the starter box and move them into a regular 10 frame hive box.

It’s a great year for honey. The bees seem to be getting a lot of nectar and pollen. The ” honey flow” should be
beginning now.

Honey flow is a time when one or more major nectar sources are in bloom and the weather is favorable for bees to fly and
collect the nectar in abundance.

Honeybees are fast – they visit up to about 40 flowers per minute depending on floral type, nectar availability and
weather conditions.

A bee will visit 100–1000 flowers per trip from the hive.

A single bee will do an average of 10 trips per day. A hive may have thousands of forager bees.

A hive can gain 8 to 20 pounds in a single day.

In two days a strong hive with more than 20,000 foragers may fill a honey super. This is for nectar, ripe honey has its
water fraction reduced significantly.

Fingers Crossed!

Gary Burger

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