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