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<blockquote data-quote="Alastair" data-source="post: 12742" data-attributes="member: 13"><p>Just started the first spring round, surprising results. Some hives very weak, and some boiling with bees, so much so I have already taken packages from some of them just to reduce numbers.</p><p></p><p>Some hives have come through winter with more honey than they started with, never seen that before. It is a vile tasting granulated honey I think it is willow dew. Winter here has been much warner than normal with temperatures in the 20's even mid winter, I think that has allowed the production of willow dew, and also enabled the bees to go and get it.</p><p></p><p>It has been a really strange year weather wise, and that is reflected in the state of the hives.</p><p></p><p>Just wondering how it's going for everyone else?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alastair, post: 12742, member: 13"] Just started the first spring round, surprising results. Some hives very weak, and some boiling with bees, so much so I have already taken packages from some of them just to reduce numbers. Some hives have come through winter with more honey than they started with, never seen that before. It is a vile tasting granulated honey I think it is willow dew. Winter here has been much warner than normal with temperatures in the 20's even mid winter, I think that has allowed the production of willow dew, and also enabled the bees to go and get it. It has been a really strange year weather wise, and that is reflected in the state of the hives. Just wondering how it's going for everyone else? [/QUOTE]
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