When I checked my hives in early August their honey supers were getting close to full! I add a 2nd honey super one the hive that was closest to full. The other didn't quite need it yet.
I went out a week maybe a week and a half later and much of the honey was gone! HUGE anoints of bees in both hives but very little honey. I think the populations were so high that during the dearth, they fed off the stored honey! The hive with 2 honey supers (and no queen excluder) even had lots of capped brood in the bottom honey super of the 2. They already had a MASSIVE number of bees! Maybe the queen things she will need more bees to get out and get nectar while it lasts and replace what they consumed during the dearth.
When I checked my hives in early August their honey supers were getting close to full! I add a 2nd honey super one the hive that was closest to full. The other didn't quite need it yet.
I went out a week maybe a week and a half later and much of the honey was gone! HUGE anoints of bees in both hives but very little honey. I think the populations were so high that during the dearth, they fed off the stored honey! The hive with 2 honey supers (and no queen excluder) even had lots of capped brood in the bottom honey super of the 2. They already had a MASSIVE number of bees! Maybe the queen things she will need more bees to get out and get nectar while it lasts and replace what they consumed during the dearth.
