We had such a mild winter most of my hives only used half of the stores in
the brood box, not touching the shallow I leave them. The spring flowers
came early, even the locust which hits ever other year. Swarming was
rampant, and now I'm scrambling for shallows.  A few years back we had a
summer with rain where the flow continued through August.  It really
lightened up the harvest.
 
Steve Davis
western West Virginia
 
>The early honey-flow has been remarkably HEAVY this year!  There are 60+
>('at's a conservative estimate) lbs. nectar in most of the hives.  In fact,