Guilfordbeekeepers.org

http://www.beetight.com/ I've started using this site to track my hive's activities and found it very useful so far. It is free for six hives or less and for a professional account of 1,000 hives it's $15/year. There are a lot of extra useful forms you can access with a paid membership but right now...

THE BEEKEEPER & THE BEES - PUPPET SHOW A bumbling beekeeper, bad bandits, and buzzing bees star in this entertaining Aesop Fable. Show times are 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. Old Salem Museums & Gardens James A. Gray Jr. Auditorium 660 South Main Street Old Salem Visitors Center, Winston-Salem NC...

San Francisco State University is heading up a project to get people to plant a variety of sunflower that produces pollen, unlike so many of the hybrid's out today. Here is their recent memo on the effort, and if you like, you can check out and participate in their bee counting efforts. the Great Su...

New Research May Lead to New Ways to Control Honeybee Parasite ScienceDaily 9 December 2009 Ground-breaking discoveries by Michigan State University researchers could help protect honeybees from deadly parasites that have devastated commercial colonies. The MSU researchers for the first time were ab...

I have seen some petals of bloom on the ground in Summerfield here, probably knocked down by squirrels, so it looks like the bloom is just starting and with the weather warm the next week or so should see the full bloom out.

Thanks Wally, I didn't know that! It must be me who likes the honeycomb better! I'll get them sprayed pronto, thanks!

TJ

Finally warm enough yesterday to open up the bees. Just want to report that I lost my strongest first hive sometime in the last month. I had ALOT of honey on this hive going into winter as I never harvested this one last year (I spent the summer in Canada) but it was also CHOCK FULL of bees. When I ...

Sounds like a great seal for the wood, but wouldn't it attract wax moths to the hives, at least to the outside if they weren't painted but just dipped?

Hi everyone, Just wanted to give you this link to the honeybee research centre for current news and info on research being done at this University. If you check out the "Web Links" tab on the right there's alot of great reading through the different sites there too. http://entomology.ucdav...

Here is a link to a lady in Atlanta that has been keeping bees since 2006. She is a very gung-ho keeper and posts some great videos about her adventures and new things she is trying.

http://beekeeperlinda.blogspot.com/

Tracey

Check out this link:

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008 ... mites.html

Tracey

It will be two years before this product is available to us for use.

I have written an e-mail to Marrone and will post their response shortly.

That's a great tip Kurt, I was wondering about that. I had modified a syrup feeder with an additional section that I put patties into, but the SHB like to eat'em and lay in them, which is not helpful in my trying to destroy their population. I'll put pieces in the middle of the bees next time. Just ...

Hey! Thanks for the warm welcome, it's been a cold winter! Yes, the bees are taking care of them, but I'm worried they'll become more prolific. I have my bees in a forested area with morning sun and I understand if not in full sun it can present a problem. This just sounded like a nice, natural deat...

Hi Kurt, I ordered two Italian queens at the last meeting, but only want one. Can you change my order (not sure who's looking after this). Thanks, Tracey

In the Feb. American Bee Journal on page 104 there is a notice on a bacteria that is toxic to Small Hive Beetle that the government has licenced to Marrone Organic Innovations, Inc. of Davis, Calif., and Natural Industries, Inc. of Houston, Texas It comes from soil rich in decomposed hemlock leaves ...

I can see the pollen. I'll report back and let you know how mine are doing after a few days. Let's hope they like the pollen patties I have for them. Crossing my fingers that weather system in the Atlantic hits us with some good rain. TJ

Sorry about the late notice guys but I won't be able to be there after all. My daughter has her first violin lesson tomorrow morning and I thought my hubbie could cover it for me, but he's not able to. Will be at the meeting though and look forward to seeing you there. TJ

Thanks L&H. I don't know when the heck she stopped.
P.S. On the entrance reducer I meant to PREVENT robbing. Thanks