That's awesome. I think we're going to wait until after the buckwheat, depending on our next mite check, then use formic. We have oxalic acid pads in our boxes right now and will continue with that.Not one mite in all 3 hives! Queens are laying nicely, honey and pollen over packed brood frames, me so very happy! Now I can hold treatment till the temp steadies below 80 and give them a Formic Pro treatment as a matter of course.
Sounds like you're in good shape. Naming bees? Let's see you come up with about roughly a HUNDRED FOURTY THOUSAND more.
I have named mine collectively The Crew. When I get whacked, which is rare, I have all kinds of colorful names for that one even though it's my fault, under my breath of course. 
With all the comb drawn I'm excited to see how much we get with the fall goldenrod flow.
That's fantastic! I hope you have a good nectar flow.Juist did my first extraction last weekend and got 15 pounds!
I use Apigard for a couple rounds in the fall when the supers are off before closing up and once again in the spring before putting the supers on. During flow season I use oxalic acid treatments because it doesn't leave dangerous amounts in the honey. Started with one explosive nuc last year and split it over the season to three hives (sacrificed any hope for a harvest to expand). One hive didn't survive the winter, but bees from the other hives took over the empty hive box and just exploded in numbers. Going to try expanding to four hives next year. Maybe five the next.
Wish we had goldenrod here. 
