Summer Honey Extraction

Finally getting some honey this summer. I pulled six frames from one hive (one of the two new ones from nucs this spring) and extracted in our kitchen - bottled about 18 pounds of very dark honey - I assume from goldenrod. Thanks to the Meacham twins for helping spin the extractor.

Swarm at Tysons

I received a call from Anne Tyson about a swarm that was buzzing through the Tyson yard on its way somewhere. My brother and I searched the front side of the island down to the dock and finally found it - in a tree next to Tyson's of course. I put out a few swarm traps and they settled into one after a day or so.

Hived it in the bee yard and they seem to have settled in so far.