-I am rather ashamed to admit that I had a good honey year in
northeastern North Carolina.  I lost about half my bees to Apistan
resistant varroa, but fed and split the rest and made a good honey
crop.  I attribute this to 1.  blind luck, 2.  New world carniolian
stock (they took off in March and I fed them heavily), and 3. the fact
that our honey seems to come in about a 10 day window around the first
of May (tulip poplar and blackberry) and we had a dry May following a
wet April.  At any rate, all my honey is off my bees by June 1 and the
bees spend early summer in cucumber fields.-

Bill Lord