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Dates to Remember
June 6-7: WSU
Picnic/BBQ and Bee Lab tour.
June 10: June NWDBA Meeting
Aug 12-16: Western Apiculture Society Conf
Oct 25: Regional Beekeepers Meeting, 5:30PM
Nov 6-8: Hood River, Oregon Tri-state Convention.
Meeting Agenda
At our June meeting will feature Tim and Connie Bueler
with a
talk about The Short Course Beekeeping Class (1 week long) they took
in British Columbia. Come and get the condensed version with all
the important details condensed into 1 hour!
Western Apiculture Society
Conference
The Western Apiculture
Society Conference is at Simon Fraser University - Aug 12-16. For
more information, contact George Steffensen.
george@internetcds.com
541-474-4305.
Regional Beekeeepers Meeting
The regional beekeepers meeting has been
scheduled for October 25th
at the
Cottontree Inn/Best Western in Mt Vernon. A no host bar will be
open at 5:30 for the social hour with dinner following at 6:30 or 7:00
PM. More detailed location instructions will be in a future
newsletter. Reports from last years meeting indicated that
everyone involved had a great time. See you there!
American Bee Journal
If you missed the ABJ article about Mel Loomis you
can check it out on the nwdba website at
http://www.nwdba.org/mel.html.
Questions
Have a question about beekeeping you'd like to see
answered in the newsletter? Just send an email to
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June Beekeeping
Blueberries
are in bloom the first week; Blackberries in bloom the second week;
Black Locust the last week. Remove the queen excluder when there is one
box (deep or western) mostly full of honey over the brood nest.
Continue to monitor brood nest crowding. Bees sometimes store honey
close to and in the brood nest causing crowding. There should be one or
two empty brood combs for the queen to lay in.
July Beekeeping
If
brood nest crowding occurs consider adding another brood
nest (western). Only remove combs of honey when they are 2/3
capped (nectar won’t shake from combs). Early morning or evenings
are the best times for removing comb to discourage robbing.
Note: Do not use brood nest combs in the
honey supers to prevent contaminating honey with miticide residues. Identify
brood nest combs and boxes (westerns and deeps) with colored paint so that combs
are not interchanged.
Recipe - how to preserve
children
1 large grassy field
1/2 dozen children or more
2 or 3 small dogs
1 pinch of brook
some small pebbles
Mix the children and
dogs well together and put them in a large grassy field, stirring
constantly. Pour the brook over the small pebbles, sprinkle the
field with flowers and honey bees, spread over all a deep blue sky, and
bake in a hot sun. When thoroughly browned, remove and set to cool
in a warm bath tub. From Favorite Honey Recipes by Honey
Queen Committee of California.
See you at the Meeting!
Glenn |
