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

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

March BCBC Monthly Meeting: Hello members for the meeting in March we have Chris Apple speak  to us. Here is a little about Chris. I am a NCSBA Master Beekeeper. I am a Regional Director for the state and sit on the Board of Directors. I am also a member of the MBP committee and the 4-H Grant Program.  Chris will talk about the ways that honey bees communicate with one another through both their dances and the complex system of pheromones excreted by all the members of the hive. Looking forward to this and I hope that you will be able to join us. As always we will open the room up at 6:30 for talking bees with your fellow club members. The linkRead More

  Hello  BCBC members, I hope that this email finds you and your girls fairing well and enjoying the fall weather. Sorry about the delay in getting this email out to you all but we will be having a monthly meeting Monday Oct.5th,2020 We  will have the pleasure of hearing and asking questions from Karen Spear. Here is a little about her: Karen and Ed Speer own and operate Sweet Betsy Farm in Marion, NC which provides local honey, bees, eggs and agritourism experiences. Karen is a NCSBA Master Beekeeper, a NCSBA Mountain Region Director and chairs the McDowell Honey Bees’ very successful annual beginner beekeeping school.   Karen will be talking about Preparing for Winter How we prepare our apiary for winter including planting for late season pollen, pest management, feedingRead More

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