Interesting and useful information - did this years ago and thinking I should again.
I may have missed this information on another post but how many hives on that location? How much were you affected by the drought? Are you performing any specific type of hive managment (ie 2 queen units, adding swarms to existing hives ect.)
For me, we definitely had a drought, but it did not seem to effect me too much. The rain, although limited seemed to occur at the right times.
Also, this is just the measurements from a single hive sitting over a restored prairie. I don't do anything particularly unique, just treat for mites using MAQS.
This is the "Home" yard, in front of the shop, with about 24 hives.
This yard is near the Rock river valley(joins the Mississippi at the Quad cities(Davenport, Rock island, etc.), so not quite as effected, but still I believe the numbers will show that July was pretty flat compared to normal, where 80 percent of the gains are in July. At the end of July, we thought we where going to be in really bad shape for the year.
Just an "average" production colony,and as such was handled the same as the others in the yard.
Single seep brood chamber, deep supers. Methodology from the 1940's.
Feeding started after 10-4. This yard gets abused the most, not always getting the scheduled attention, 'cuz it's at the shop, "We can do it another day". All the other yards are worked in strict rotation.
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