The thistle is in bloom. Though this isn't a flower that I see honey bees on, they are pretty and attract a lot of butterflies.
The goldenrod is just starting to open. This is a flower that provides a major source of honey and pollen for bees late in the summer and early fall.
My three hives. There is some activity on the front entrances of each hive, but there aren't as many bees out as there have been during some of the hotter and more humid days.
I was inspecting my middle and south hives this day. I had inspected the North hive a few days before but my camera wasn't working then. Here is a frame of solid honey though it has very dark capping rather than the usual white capping. I'm not sure why that is. The frame was very heavy with honey.
Here's anther frame of the dark capped honey, with some cells of bright colored pollen peaking through the bees in the bottom center.
When I opened up the brood chamber of the hive, there was some honey stored between the boxes, that broke and provided a treat to the bees.
Lots of capped brood in the South hive shown here. I found a lot of brood in the middle box but got distracted by what I was finding and forgot to take pictures.
This frame from the South hive had both open and capped brood on it.
Here is a frame of capped brood with capped honey on the outer edges.
This frame from the South hive has capped brood surrounded by pollen and honey on the outer edges.
There is a lot of pollen on the bottom (left side here) of hte frame. There is brood scattered around under the mass of bees above the pollen.
The South hive also had some solid frames of dark capped honey on the outer edges of some boxes, but not a full box full of these frames like the middle hive had.
