So I had that "where's the bees?" experience I've heard about. My strongest colony threw several swarms, judging by the four emerged queen cells and still one capped.
Anyway, I have four medium supers on that hive, each with 9 frames, all full of honey. Except each frame is about half capped, like in the pic. Some more some less, average 50%
How can I harvest this honey?
Here's my ideas:
> put them on other hives, I have a couple, but they have their own work to do?
> try to extract them as-is and see if they pass the spectrometer test?
> wait til July hoping the new queen builds a strong colony and there is some flow?
> maybe pull out the remaining Q cell to a nuc and combine a weaker colony onto this one?
Ugh. And my swarm trap is empty. :/