Super!

Hard to believe, but it's time for honey supers already. The weather has been beautiful and sunny and flowers are bursting out all over the South Hill.

All three hives are thriving and that means I have to stay on top of them to prevent swarming.

Strategy for hive #3 was to donate three frames of brood to a friend for a nuc a couple of weeks ago. 

Now you can hardly even tell that anything is even missing! The boxes were heavy so it got a super today.

Hive #1 is the star right now: I put a super on three days ago and it's already almost full! Unbelievable. Second super went on today. I think the extra warm 70-80 degree temps had something to do with it. I also pulled a frame of brood out today for a nuc.

Hive #2 donated three frames of brood to a nuc today. I used a purchased queen who will be in her cage for a couple of days until her "stepdaughters" get used to her. I can use that nuc to re queen that hive later. That queen is the oldest of the three; she'll be two in August.