Lloyd attributes the differences in honey crops to knapweed.  P'raps so.  I
have one yard located smack dab in the middle of a great knapweed field.
It's a very inconvenient yard to tend, but I keep it because the knapweed
harvest makes it worth while.  Very nice, light honey.

But as the bee flies, Lloyd's yards and my yards are removed, and Mike
Palmer is many bee miles removed.  Whereas Rick Green's bees' and my bees'
forage area literally overlaps.

I've been wondering about the difference Rick reported.  Another difference
I know of is that Rick made quite a few splits this spring.  Perhaps the
queens are questionable.  I got a small number of early queens from
California this spring, a large portion of which were very poor performers.
In fact, some of them I replaced.  Possible Rick is suffering from a bad
batch of queens.  Comments Rick?

Aaron Morris - thinking sunburn!

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