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SkaneBees · Skåne, SE · Honey · Jul 6, 2026

White wax everywhere and the clover is pumping — is this the best week of the season?

Went through my 8 production colonies in Skåne yesterday and every single box smells like warm honey. Fresh white wax on the top bars, burr comb between boxes full of nectar, bees festooning in the supers drawing foundation like it's free. The white clover here is wall to wall this year after all the June rain, and lime (linden) is just starting too. Added a fifth super to my two strongest — they filled the fourth in nine days. When the bees are whitening the comb like this you basically cannot over-super, they need the space just to dry nectar. Eight years in and this week is why I keep doing it. Anyone else's flow going stupid right now, or is it just southern Sweden having a moment?
#nectar-flow#clover#supering#white-wax
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DrentseBij · Jul 6, 2026
Drenthe is the same, lime just opened and the clover never stopped. I stacked my first ever six-super colony this week. Nine days for a full super is proper — mine are doing about twelve.
PerthshireBees · Jul 6, 2026
Meanwhile Perthshire is sat in drizzle waiting on the heather. Enjoy it for the rest of us. Agree on the supering though — under-supering during a flow is how folk end up with swarms in July.
KiwiBeek · Jul 7, 2026
Reading this from a Wellington winter with my bees clustered and me feeding the odd light hive. Genuinely jealous. Screenshotting the white wax talk for motivation, my flow is five months away.
SkaneBees · Jul 7, 2026
PerthshireBees the heather will make it worth the wait, that's honey worth drizzle. KiwiBeek — I'll trade you in January when I'm knee-deep in snow reading YOUR flow threads.
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