What's the buzz on the bees?

It is official, we will not be getting any honey this summer.  I am sad but not surprised.  We did not bring our hives home until well into the spring nectar flow.  We brought home two, 9 frame hives (10th frame was a feeder).  The first hive was a new start-up so they had about 3 frames going when they came home.  Our second hive had seven or eight nice frames of bees but we immediately added a second hive body. 

My son working our first hive in May

To put it simply, there was too much work to expect them to make excess honey for us.  The important thing will be that they have enough honey for themselves to get through the winter.  We will be heading out to pull the empty suppers off them in a week or so and need to do a full inspection.  We will be feeding them this fall just to be sure.

Now my attention can shift to the other animals on the farm and getting ready for fall pest treatments for the bees. Not much else to do with them except wait for spring.  Thanks for trying ladies!