Back in April I reported my efforts to rebuild lost beehives and employing a Hive Nucleus. Here’s an update on the B-Haven Apiary 2012.

5 Beehives + 1 Nucleus
If you recall, my apiary conists of 5 hives and 1 nucleus. 4 of the hives and the nucleus were started with packages and the remaining hive was started with a swarm. All 5 hives are doing well.  They are all on their second honey super.  The nuclues consists of 2 supers, each with 5 frames.

I am very excited about the up and coming Honey Flow.  That is, when the local flowers are blooming and there is sufficient necter production for bees to grow the hives.  The Honey Flow usually starts some time in April.

2011 Honey Production
In the mean time, I would like to recap last years (2011) honey production.  We started the season with a single hive, that had made it successfully through the winter.  I decided to expand the apiary to four total hives.  I thus needed to create three new hives.