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Member Kevin Watson was killed on Friday afternoon while riding his motorcycle. Local new story https://myfox8.com/news/man-on-motorcyc ... olice-say/.

The club will make a $100 donation to the NCSU Bee Lab in his memory.

About 10 o'clock this morning I looked out my window to see a swarm of bees in the air over my deck. At first I thought they were moving into the bait hive I have at the side of my deck. Then I realized they were leaving the one hive I have on the other side of my deck. Going out my front door I cou...

Another new article about honey fraud.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/884k ... y-be-honey

Here is another recent article (January 2020) summarizing the present state of knowledge about Varroa and its management.

https://academic.oup.com/jipm/article/1 ... 36/5692075

I lifted the following post by James Fischer from the Bee-L mailing list. You can download the pdf of Traynor's article from the link below. Her article gives a much more detailed history of Varroa than I had understood. "Varroa destructor: A Complex Parasite, Crippling Honeybees Worldwide"...

‘Bee-washing’ by advocacy groups and product pushers.

https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2020 ... 8bb372f970

New member Randy Causey sent me this link.

https://www.collective-evolution.com/20 ... lations/

This is a long, but well worth your time, article.

https://theintercept.com/2020/01/18/bee ... -syngenta/

Bees bringing in pollen at my house this afternoon.

A recent article from Science News

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/pow ... g-behavior

Here's an alternative view, including a comment by Randy Oliver, who says "By my math, sulfoxaflor applied at even the maximum rate of active ingredient per acre should be far less toxic to bees than is [the neonicotinoid ] imidacloprid applied at its normal rate." https://geneticliteracyp...

By noon today the nectarometer at Gibsonville was nearly empty. I refilled it about 1400 and will check it again tomorrow.

Again today my pint nectarometer emptied between 0745 and 1330. However, at my outyard in Gibsonville, about 1/2 mile south of the McLeansville Wildlife club, another nectarometer placed at 0800 and checked at 1300 was untouched.

My nectarometer was emptied in 6 hours today at my home near US 29 and Hicone Rd (near Rudd Farm)

This is the 9 frame manual extractor formerly sold by Brushy Mountain (still in the boxes with the Brushy Mountain labels). It will handle 9 medium or shallow frames as a radial extractor or 3 deep frames as a tangential extractor. This unit sits atop the holding tank and has a metal filter between ...

I took advantage of the "warm" temperatures today to use the OA vaporizer on 4 hives at the house. The other hives are either Wayne's Bees (no mite treatment) or nucs that are too small to safely vaporize. When we get a warmer stretch, I plan to treat at the Cooperative Extension, Brown S...