Well June will soon be upon us and dutiful beekeeper will control their Hive(s) in a 7-day cycle. Why? Now the early summer honey should remove before the first week in June due.
Links, where it is and the bees which are left to themselves (when the summer bloom was good) honey bees progressive withdrawal of honey ready to rave about. The bees takes the stored honey finished feed swarm for three to five days it takes to move and get settled. Removing the honey the bees this option and you have received a larger early harvest.
If the early bloom is not so good it simpy longer happen for the above process. Honey extracted for the process over a period of time, but you are probably still raving about. The bees will Innevitable swarm produce more Brut, later to replace that could lead Queen fatigue or congestion, plus the bees need not busy because of the lack of food in the summer!
Not sure if your bees swarm? Now, if space is available (Habitat), you are raving about! Is the brood box rammed full of bees (a further delay tactics would be another super for breed add)? There Queens cells or even other Queens? If so, a swarm is imminent.
The best solutions and certainly the easiest among the early honey harvest (sealed honey) to remove end of may, and create a few "Mini" swarms with the bees which have to do much else. To give this new cores a few frames of eggs and open to breed and remove a different locale. All the hives with 1 part sugar to 2 parts water syrup feed.
Now you have a correct Queen colony and maybe two "mini" colonies with the right tools for the re-queen new start! Prima!
The other good thing about this whole process is the ability to treat varroasis and look after EFB and AFB!
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