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I love bees. Today we've been busy straining honey, it's been messy but fun. Since we hadn't done it before we tried a few methods and stumbled onto this site with a pretty simple way to collect honey http://www.backyardhive.com/Caring_For_Bees_in_a_Top_Bar_Hive/Hive_Management/A_Simple_Harvest/
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I'm in NY, it sucks we're harvesting, really. Our oldest hive swarmed very late in August, we caught the swarm but it wasn't able to store enough honey up and died over the winter. Cold weather set in earlier than usual, but it was too late even for a warm fall. We think the queen died in the original hive, shortly after the swarm left all the bees started acting weird that were left, and we weren't able to find any evidence of the queen. With no more broods the number of bees wasn't enough to keep warm for winter. Maybe we should have tried to re-merge the swarm with the original, since they didn't have a queen. We tried swapping frames into the swarm hive but ended up losing both  Now the plan is to get more bees this spring. The honey is from the group that froze, we just hated to see it go to waste.
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