I was VERY surprised and more than a little disappointed to inspect my beehive and find it void of honey, with a small but active bee colony. I have a theory that I now need to test.
Basically, I have about 6 beehives in storage. Over the last few months, I’ve noticed a lot of bee traffic buzzing through the workshop where the hives are stored. I’m hoping the bees adopted some sort of “off site storage” strategy and put up a bunch of pollen and/or honey in the remote hives.
That would be an unorthodox bee behaviour, but it would explain why my single hive is so empty, given there was an acre and a half of crimson clover not 500 yrds from the hive. May investigate that hypothesis later today, if it doesn’t get too hot. On that note, it has been pleasantly cooler this week, but the temps are forecast to be back up into the 90’s by Saturday. Waaaaaaaaah.
I still have about 300 feet of garden fence to get strung up this weekend, so I bess go buy a case of Gatorade.