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I certainly appreciate a honey flow, even the one we're having right now, which isn't as strong as it usually is.
I recently worked one of my strongest colonies. I harvested two frames of capped brood to start nucs with and with our weaker flow, this season, saw how the bees were filling the top super of their two-super brood nest with honey, this is the first time I've seen them do this. So I've been moving the honey filled combs up into the honey supers and dividing the brood combs into the two brood supers, placing Mann Lake PF120 frames or foundationless frames with horizontal support wires, between the frames of brood. I like to check them the next day, because I usually find that most of these new frames already have comb being built in them with nice new, white wax, and some are nearly completely filling the frames and the queen will sometimes already have them filled with eggs.
Honey flows are the only time I can see development happen this quickly, or at all, so I try to enjoy it while it lasts.
I recently worked one of my strongest colonies. I harvested two frames of capped brood to start nucs with and with our weaker flow, this season, saw how the bees were filling the top super of their two-super brood nest with honey, this is the first time I've seen them do this. So I've been moving the honey filled combs up into the honey supers and dividing the brood combs into the two brood supers, placing Mann Lake PF120 frames or foundationless frames with horizontal support wires, between the frames of brood. I like to check them the next day, because I usually find that most of these new frames already have comb being built in them with nice new, white wax, and some are nearly completely filling the frames and the queen will sometimes already have them filled with eggs.
Honey flows are the only time I can see development happen this quickly, or at all, so I try to enjoy it while it lasts.