The spring season is over, so that the bees were only able to bring in a little nectar during the last days.

However, a sticky layer of honeydew has formed on the leaves of some lime trees in the neighbourhood, which the bees could not absorb due to the extremely dry weather.

After it rained a little at night, the bees were finally able to collect the diluted honeydew from the leaves yesterday. 

This is very nice to see from the weight of the hive scale, on which a colony of only medium strength is standing:

• for 3 days (green, purple, yellow) only small gains in the range of 0,5 kg
• Yesterday (red) after a little overnight rain all day long a considerable increase of 1,7 kg
• Overnight (blue) steady decline - the bees dry the moist honeydew from the previous day. Today it is quite cool with only 13°C, therefore no bees are flying yet.

Let's hope that the rain won't be too heavy and won't wash the dew, as well as its producer, from the leaves, and that there will be a good second honey harvest with delicious leaf honey or forest honey soon.