Sweet Drippy Harvest

Way to go girls!!! The Carniolan bees have done themselves proud. We pulled out quite a stack of frames that were FULL of honey. We don't have an extractor yet so we have been nibbling on the honey that drips from the frames as it waits to be extracted. We will have to cut off the wax top of the comb to access the honey tucked neatly inside each hexagon. We anticipate getting up to 3 gallons of honey off from this single hive. The Italian bees have not done as well. We suppose that their original queen died and they hatched a superseder cell establishing a new queen. She has been subpar because the hive has not thrived. Either that or there are way too many man bees getting in the ladies way. Did you know all the honey comes from the gals? The boys really don't do anything at all other than occasionally donate a chromosome or two.