One of my successful over wintered hives. Built up really fast in the spring was split early and has been producing nicely.
Key dates and log of activities
4/7/25 Harvested 4 full flow frames. The frames were fully capped across the entire area. I thought this hive was in dire need of emptying however there were 3 frames that were full but uncapped. i could not harvest these as they were not >80% capped. Frames returned back to the hive to be refilled. Will try and harvest again in late August or first week of September. The remaining 3 frames will be fully capped by then.
28-06-25 – All frames are >80% capped so it is good to go. Just enough space for one more week of activities just to finish it off and give the blue hive a chance to finish as well. Will harvest next week.
18/5/25 Reconnected the hive scales and complete the set-up. They were fairly angry so I didn’t open them up to find the hive heart for battery change hence the lack of internal measurements. Previous inspections showed a mass of honey after an early spring so this could be up for a harvest of a couple of flow frames.
Plan: change battery of the hive heart at next opening.