Honey in June!

After making up four nucs (and giving three away), I think the girls are finally starting to focus more on producing honey than swarm cells. I've been throwing on the supers left and right to give them room.

Unfortunately, they are not totally done making queen cells as you can see. Here's a queen cell on the left and a queen cup on the right. This is the drone frame that's in the freezer now.

I'm at the point where they're too heavy to lift off the hive, even with the stepstool. I am going to have to pull frames off and extract early. I took 11 frames off of Toby's hive today. I'm planning to use the nuc on the left to re-queen Toby's hive at some point. Right now, I'm using it to produce some drawn frames and maybe honey for the honey bank.

The spring honey is really light. A totally different color than the late summer.