My last post was about how nice the weather was. Hoo boy, do times change. It’s been brutal. By the end of this week we should see some temperature relief as what’s left of Hurricane Beryl strolls through our area on Thursday and Friday. By Sunday things should be back to ‘dangerously hot’ just in time for our summer picnic! There’s just no point in waiting any longer for the weather to be decent. We’re probably not going to see comfortable weather until October.

I’ve been harvesting and extracting this week. Pretty good crop I think. We’ll see.

The honey kitchen will be open on Sunday at the picnic. Sign up here.

Here’s a slow motion video of some bees on wax. What are they doing?

Things I must leave down here from my last message…

• Picnic July 14th – we’ve rescheduled the picnic for July 14. That’s also the first day of the Honey Kitchen!
• Honey Kitchen – We’ll have the Honey Kitchen at Awbury open starting July 14 through the end of August. Please go to the Honey Kitchen page to sign up – It’s a different system this year, not using Sign up Genius.
• It is time once again for the PA honey bee colony winter loss survey.  So far only 22 PA beekeepers have participated, so we need your help! CLICK HERE AND TAKE THE SURVEY!!!
• Robyn Underwood, Kate Anton, and the Penn State team put on a fantastic Drone workshop that Jeff and I attended.
• Don’t forget the State Beekeepers Picnic on July 20th. It’s at Knoebel’s this year which is a hoot and a half on it’s own, even better with beekeepers. If folks are interested we can organize car pools.