Month: April 2021

  Hello  members, Hope that you and your girls are doing well. We are going to have a very exciting meeting in May.  We are going to have Allison McAfee. Here is the topic: Queen failure: Two years of surveying queens and potential causal factors   Summary: In the first part of this talk, I will discuss my work on temperature stress and why it can be a problem for honey bee queens. I’ll talk about what temperature range is safe and what happens when queens spend too long outside the safe range. In the second part, I will talk about what I have learned by sampling queens from beekeepers for the last two years, and describe some surprising relationships between sublethal viral infection andRead More

Hello BCBC members, We will be having our Q&A tomorrow evening April14th at 7:00. We will open the room up around 6:45. Bring your questions or just come and talk bees. Hope to see you there. A link was sent email. A few reminders: I will be sending out a link tomorrow as we have an invitation to hear Dr. Marla Spivak talk to Mecklenburg County Beekeepers this Thursday evening April 15th We are still selling medium frames from Dadant  unassembled. Let me know if you need any. Mark Traub Vice President BCBC                

  Here is the link for Monday April 5th at 7:00.  This Month we will have Tommy Helms ,President of Mecklenburg County Beekeepers talk with us on swarms. As always we will open the zoom room up around 6:30 so feel free to log on and talk bees. Here is a little about Tommy: Been keeping bees since 1975. Currently running around 100 hives in 4 bee yards. Run single deep brood boxes with solid bottoms and solid inner covers. I keep bees in Mecklenburg County and in Wilkes County. I build all my wooden ware. A firm believer in swarm boxes and usually have great success catching swarms. I constantly mentor new beekeepers for our club.       wnc bees is inviting youRead More

Thought it prudent to share this with everyone again.  Thank you! Scott Scott A Davis NC Certified Beekeeper Fancy Bear Farms Fairview, NC 828.628.3537/828.712.6074 Honey@fancybearfarms.com   From: Scientific Beekeeping <randy@randyoliver.com&gt; Sent: Monday, March 1, 2021 1:58 PM To: sdavis9517@gmail.com Subject: Oxalic acid exemption from tolerance     I’ve received a lot of questions regarding the notice from the Federal Register that oxalic acid has been exempted from tolerance in honey.  Beekeepers are asking me what this means. The following is a direct quote from my contact at EPA (who checked with the Regulation Division): “The exemption from tolerance was issued under the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA).  EPA was able to meet the requirements stipulated under the FFDCA to exempt oxalic acid fromRead More