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To begin I will give you some background on the system I had come up with based on warre methodology. In the spring I would under super (place an empty box under the colony) so the broodnest could expand onto new comb, this facilitates yearly comb renewal without breaking or disturbing the broodnest structure. Through the flowing seasons I would "ideally" remove some comb from a couple boxes above the broodnest this will let the bees harvest and store more honey without the need to fill a whole box (checker-boarding). I would keep the hives at four boxes tall with progressive harvests.

The images you see on the left are my box lifter and an escape board based on a design I found online.
Today I was planning on harvesting the top box from hive number five, so I placed the escape board under it and above the rest of the hive, this lets the bees travel downwards while preventing them from traversing upwards, then the idea was I could just remove the now bee devoid empty box of honey. I waited an hour and checked but the bees were still there, so I concluded that my escape had not worked, Ok I said time for plan B.
Plan B involved removing individual comb and brushing all the bees off one at a time, this went surprisingly well. As I removed the first comb (drawn out perfectly straight) I was impressed with its beauty, It would have made the most gorgeous honey comb. The second comb was just as impressive, the third at first glance was more of the same until I noticed some brood! So I checked a bit further and sure enough the queen was laying a nice pattern of brood in all this wonderfully new wax. This is why the escape board hadn't been working the bees did not want to "escape" they wanted to be in this box.

I was very excited about this discovery even though it meant I have to wait a couple more days to harvest. You see the top box on number five had previously been under the box that all this hives brood was in, this in turn means when I moved this box to the top thinking the queen had not moved down into it I was unknowingly moving the queen as well. This proves she will move down onto new wax just like warre says, only I find she moves much to slowly to always under super. I think under supering should be done once in the spring for broodnest expansion then on top for honey harvest.

August and the weather so far seems too be cooling off, and in-line with seasonal. This season our nights have been very cool with blistering hot days.
The above picture is one of my "Italian hives", sometimes with cool night weather the bees will stay put until the sun comes out then they go crazy with hundreds all flying around at once, I see this a lot if we had rain the day before.

So far all seven hives are doing well, I have yet to check on the smaller ones, those I will feed if their numbers or stores are low to get them ready for the coming winter. Hive number one is still displaying signs of chalk brood, the season is too late for raising a new queen though so I will try to get them though the winter. If number one survives I have a few options, one would be pinch the queen and let them raise another, or I could buy a new queen, I could also take a queen from one of my stronger hives and let that hive raise a new queen for themselves. I do not like propagating poor genetics so "number one" making their own queen is out.

So far our forage has been good with the exception of a late spring and an offset clover flow, that offset set back the clover since it didn't have time to flower before most farmers took their first cutting, so we are getting some clover flow now. I should be able to get some harvest this year, this is exiting since it would be my first real harvest since I started beekeeping.