Well, it has been a disappointing year at the apiary so far. First, I lost three of my colonies (50%) over the winter, so I knew the 2019 harvest would be rather low. Second, the weather in May was very cool and wet. The bees started out great in April with developing, but then with the cold May, nectar collection took a hit. Two of the three colonies have barely brought in any amounts of honey. Only one colony has a pretty full honey super. I plan to harvest Sunday morning (June 30th) and then we will see how it goes from there. I may give the bees a few more weeks after that to see if we can scrape out some more honey before staring the varroa treatments. An interesting note: last year on the 30th of June we harvested for the second time with a total of 80kgs (130kgs combined with the first harvest).