Buncombe County Beekeepers Club (BCBC) A Website by Beekeepers in Western North Carolina, for Bee Keepers everywhere!

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

Alison McAfee alison.n.mcafee at gmail.com Mon May 3 14:17:16 CDT 2021 Hello everyone,   I am emailing so that everyone has my contact in case questions come up that aren’t addressed during the Q&A tonight. I will be sharing a short (30 min) video recorded presentation on my work researching queens over the last couple of years, then I’ll stay with you as long as you like to answer any questions you may have live.   Looking forward to seeing you online!   Ali  

  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