Honey from all of 09 is on these japhet creek colonies. They used up a bunch over the cold winter, had some die outs (as beekeepers call them) but only a few. Some of the big colonies had brood in the supers so I left them and in some cases removed the bottom box as they do not use the old comb after a couple of years. Those bees are poised to draw in a lot of honey this year. This is a view of an excellent laying pattern by the feral queen in the 2nd story of this big colony. Pulled 7-8 supers of honey and will extract & bottle today. Delivery to Ruggles green tomorrow.