This is our first year bee keeping. Our hive was populated in late April and we have almost reached the needed 60 lbs of honey to make the winter. To give the bees a little more room we put the honey super on yesterday. I know that some hives in the area have not done as well but we have a master bee keeper in our township and he reports a good year.
I’m in Western Pa. We’ve had honeybees living in one wall of our 200+year old house for many years. Every year, the hive grows so large that it splits in two and half the hive flies off. This year, the hive did not split, and there are not many bees flying in and out of the wall. I wanted them gone, but now, as I observe the low number of bees, I admit to being worried.