honey-flow

Any one who has watched the farcical solemnities of a rookery, the carefully thought-out inanities of wagtails, the drunken decorum of bees in full honey-flow, will not mind being cut off from human gatherings, where the laughter is sometimes a little mirthless.

The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing 1917

But Vessons was, as he would have phrased it himself, 'in full honey-flow,' and not to be silenced.

Gone to Earth Mary Gladys Meredith Webb 1904

The heat of the hive had risen with the June honey-flow, and though the farmers worked, until their wings ached, to keep people cool, everybody suffered.

Actions and Reactions Rudyard Kipling 1900

A colony of bees is a perpetual problem; the strain of the bees, the age and disposition of the queen, the condition of the colony, the state of the weather, the time of the season, the little-understood laws of the honey-flow, -- these singly, and often all in combination, make the wisest handling of a colony of bees a question fresh every summer morning and new every evening.

The Hills of Hingham Dallas Lore Sharp 1899

I do not praise the land where butter and honey-flow!

Thus Spake Zarathustra 1885