In a message dated 96-03-26 08:41:08 EST,  [log in to unmask]
(WILLIAM G LORD) writes:
 
> Where I keep bees the honey flow is over by June 1 and often we
>get little appreciable honey until the fall, and then not always.  In my
>case I put an excluder over the (single) brood chamber immediately after
>the honey flow, usually when I am removing honey with fume boards and
>driving down the queen.  If you don't exclude the queen from the honey
>super there will be no honey left come fall.
 
   This is true here also, and I expect throughout much of the southeast.
 Summer and fall flows are spotty and totally undependable.  Many times, a
good vigorous queen will fill the hive from top to bottom with brood, supers
included.  The hive will be roaring strong at the end of September, with not
a drop of capped honey in the whole thing.
 
    I figure I MUST have the queen into one story with an excluder by
mid-June at the latest.  I almost always regret it, if I don't.
 
[log in to unmask]      Dave Green,   PO Box 1200,  Hemingway,  SC   29554