Hey all, I wrote in about a month ago regarding some hot bees I received from Hawaii. Well, they're still damn hot. However, I've just finished extracting for the year here in Eastern Ontario. The hot hive produced 7 shallow supers for a total of 232 lbs of honey. Less cappings so the actual figure is slightly lower. The Russian hive produced 194 lbs from 6 boxes and my mutts each produced on average138 lbs. They are lower due to requeening. The weights were found by measuring before and after weights of the supers. I went out a few days ago to prepare to requeen them and after locating the queen I noticed I was covered by a considerable amount of angry bees. Great hive for honey but just to dangerous to have around. Put local Russian queen in today. Oh, and had quite a few of my kids friends and families over to watch the extraction this time. Normally I like to do it myself, you know listen to music and consume a few wobbly pops :) but sold a lot of honey with every one over so I think I will do it again. Gave the kids all a small container to have and they eat it all right then and there. Wow, what a sugar rush. If they weren't hyper before they sure were when they left :) Hope everyone had a great year. Kent -- Visit www.honeybeeworld.com/bee-l for rules, FAQ and other info ---