I mentioned in the previous blog post that the yield for honey wasn’t looking too promising this year and that the bees had better work harder from now on. Even then it’s probably a bit too late. This spring has made its way out for summer too quickly. Since last week the maximum temperature in Melbourne has stayed above 30 degrees and this week will see more of the same in the second half. It wasn’t so long ago that we seemed to have gone back to winter back in late September to early October, but six weeks since we’re experiencing some consistently warm to hot weather that a standard Melbourne summer may not even offer! (Melbourne’s summer goes through a series of cool to extremely hot days, but it is rare to see more than four hot days in a row with maximum temperatures above 30. It is even not so unusual to have one or two weeks staying on the cool side, disappointing those craving for some summer action. So this kind of a heat spell is not even typical for the summer here.) The f