Cool, Cloudy - Not much for me to do

Good morning, it is a cool and cloudy morning. There is not much to do for the bees at this point, all hives have extra frames and bars to fill with comb, the queens are laying brood and there are plenty of blooms so downtime for me. I will clean up more honey frames and get two more supers set up in the next 2 weeks. We are headed into a slow bloom time so honey produced now will be collected and I will put a deep (9") super of 10 frames for the bees to store honey for the winter. In the late summer when those plants bloom, there may be another honey surge. What they put up then will be what they have to get thru the winter. They need about 80 lbs (1 full deep super) of honey for the winter.

The bees continue to fascinate me. Did you know...
-bees have been around for 30 million years?
-they beat their wings 11,400 times per minute( who counted that)?
-average honey production per bee in their lifetime is 1/12 teaspoon?
-they can fly 6 miles away from the hive and go 15 miles per hour?
-worker bees are all female?
-it takes 556 workers to gather 1 lb honey from 2 million flowers?

We are blessed to share in their labors.