Lughnasa New (Harvest) Moon
Five of the six honey supers contain little or no honey and are cleaned up, ready for 
storage. I set them along the fence to let the bees that are in them return to the colony. Lower dewpoint makes for so much more comfort inside the bee suit. A happier experience.
The sixth super, which had a lot of uncapped honey a couple of weeks ago has 5 frame sides capped, the rest uncapped. The queen excluder came off and the super went back on as winter stores for the hive. We can change this decision of course, but it seems wise to let the bees have a surplus rather than a shortage.
Even with the resistance work I do three times a week lifting the supers up and down, then, as I did in all visits to the colony, back up onto the increasingly tall hive structure challenges me. Four colonies might be more than I can reasonably handle. Besides, what would we do with 340 pounds of honey?
