Here in this dry country we have received over a third of our average annual rainfall this month and most of that this week. Not a large number for you folks in gentler lands and I bet it brings on a bumper honey crop.
Right as the rain began on Monday, I installed a dozen queens in small splits. I am wondering if acceptance is going to be better or worse with all the bees in forced confinement. I bet I have no drifing problems!
Even better, you will have less chances of the bees abandoning your hives. In three days they will have started to have eggs laid.
Jim
Yeah, that rain was nasty, relentless even. We had it bad over here too.
I lost ten hives to record flooding on a local creek, and had to move another ten so they didn't suffer the same fate.
Really sorry to hear that splitrock. The mountains got more rain and snow here than where I have my bees. I once had a creek flood one of my yards and float them away on spring melt.