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> Pete, do you not observe colonies completely plugging out the broodnest
> with nectar during an intense honey flow?
Hi Randy & All
I operate mainly singles. One rule about singles is that you cannot remove the first honey super above the queen excluder until you are feeding. The brood chamber(a single deep ) is wall to wall to wall brood in all stages. The bees store brood food including pollen above the Q Ex. in the 1st super. So the answer to your question is, at least here, NO!!! The honey goes in the honey supers. Here in Southern Ontario I get my major flow mid July to early August with a more intense but shorter flow September 15-30 most years. There is very little nectar after frosts in early October/late September & mediocre flows in June & earlier, with frosts in May & earlier and sometimes in early June, which the bees build on. You may think that we don’t produce much honey here but my best year was 2016 when production was 1332kg(2937#) from 12 colonies with 3 producing more than 300#. Before 2016 I would always have some colonies produce more than 300# but since 2017 smaller crops due to poorer weather & LBI(lazybuggeritis) on my part.
Bob Darrell
Caledon Ontario
Canada 44N80W
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