Author: mark Traub

BCBC members, We will be having our February meeting  on Monday Feb. 7th at 7:00. We will be going over some club  business and then we are being presented to ,by Michelle Mejia from Moral Bees. Here is a little about Michelle. She has keeping bees on our family farm since2014. Her  apiaries are located in the Appalachian Mountains of Western North Carolina above 2,700′. She is a Mountain Region Director for the NCSBA. Michelle has apprenticed under Sam Comfort of Anarchy Apiaries and worked with Leigh Knott (5 Apple Farm. She will be discussing what goes into raising queens for sale and why you might need or want to buy a queen. As well as some of her journey into beekeeping It will be aRead More

    Hello BCBC members, We will be having our December meeting on zoom next Monday Dec 6th at 7:00. The speaker will be Randy Oliver so I hope that you will be able to join us.I will be sending out a zoom link over the weekend, as well as posting to our facebook page and website. Mark Vice President BCBC Here is a little about Randy:  Randy Oliver sees beekeeping through the eyes of a biologist, building a small commercial beekeeping enterprise in the foothills of Northern California. His sons now manage around 1500 colonies for migratory pollination, and produce queens, nucs, and honey, freeing Randy to engage full-time in beekeeper-funded research projects. Randy analyzes and digests the scientific research, and is in touchRead More

   Monday Nov.1 st we are having our last in person meeting of  2021. Come ask questions and hear Gregg Rogers talk. Gregg will be discussing: General fall maintenance. Getting ready to treat with Oxcalic Acid as well as how to. Top ventilation VS top insulation for  your over winter hives.  I hope to see you there Remember masks are to be worn in the church and the seating is separated. We will meet at 7:00 but come early (doors open 6:30) to talk bees with your fellow club members. Groce United Methodist Church Tunnel Rd Asheville. Mark Vice President BCBC    

Good evening members, We will be having a Nov. meeting but not our usual potluck. As you know we had our first in person meeting at the church in Oct and this Nov. meeting will be the last in person meeting of the year, we do have a Dec. meeting but it will be on zoom. So we will have Gregg Rodgers talk to us next Monday  evening. I will be sending out more information in a day or two.. Mark Vice President BCBC

Hello BCBC members, So we are going to have our first in person meeting on Monday Oct. 4 th at the church. It will be just a n informal get together to talk bees, we will be discussing fall and winter prep.,and keep you up to date with the changes that  have been taking place. Due to state and city requirements  masks will be worn in  the building. Hope to see you there.  Groce United Methodist Church Tunnel Road Asheville, NC Mark Traub Vice President BCBC                

  The BCBC Apiary at Root Cause Farm will host a workshop this Saturday at 9:45 am to 11:30 am on mite counts. We will go over three ways to count mites so you know whether to treat or not. The sugar shake, the alcohol wash and one other TBD. We will also go over possible treatments for this time of year. Ricky Manning, Journeyman, will be out leader. You’ll want to take notes!     We are located at: 26 Joe Jenkins Road Fairview, NC 28730 just a few miles south of Asheville. Once you turn onto Joe Jenkins Road, you will soon see our kiosk and scarecrow pointing you to turn left. Drive through the pasture, and you will see the garden.  Read More

  Good afternoon BCBC members, As you know we do not usually have a july meeting but the last year and a half  has been different….So we will be having a zoom meeting on Monday the 5th of July at 7:00. As always we will be opening the room at 6:30 to talk with your fellow beekeepers. The meeting will be presented by Dr Tarpy and his BeeMore students. Here is a link for the BeeMore :https://harvest.cals.ncsu.edu/beemore/  I hope that you and your girls are doing well and enjoying the summer so far. Also we are looking for applicants for the Root Cause Farm /BCBC bee yard manager. We are still working out the logistics of the duties to be performed and the time frameRead More

Hello BCBC members, I hope that you and your girls are enjoying this great weather. Coming in June for our monthly zoom meeting I am excited to tell you that we have Kieth Delaplane talking to us. Here is a little about Kieth and the topic of his talk: Keith Delaplane is Professor and Walter B. Hill Fellow and Director of the Honey Bee Program at the University of Georgia. Keith started keeping bees growing up in Indiana. During his graduate work at LSU his major advisor was Dr. John Harbo co-developer of the VSH line of Varroa-resistant honey bee. In 2014 Professor Delaplane was received as an Honorary Member of the British Empire for his research and outreach work in UK spanning three decades.Read More

  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