I hadn't checked on a pair of hives I have out on a friend's farm in a while and my parents were in town for a visit so we put together 2 boxes and 20 frames and went out to see the bees. When we got there I found that both hives were healthy and doing well but they were pretty light, not enough honey to make it through the winter at this point.
We're just getting out of the annual Summer dry spell and in hindsight the bees didn't have much to forage on before the heat came on. They were started from a split I made this year and I'm expecting that they will probably be OK once the fall nectar flow starts up. I ended up not needing to use either of the two boxes I made, they both had at least ten frames that weren't drawn yet. From what I saw they hadn't drawn any comb at all in the last four weeks.
The best news in this is that I won't have any honey to harvest from those hives. It would be good if I did, but not having to harvest from that location this year means less work for me!
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