The Northwest District Beekeepers Association’s annual picnic is happening on July 15th. It starts at 11:00AM (but you are welcome to come early and help with setup). In the past few years we have had 100+ people show up for the picnic, and it is a great family event. The picnic is only open to … Read more
This is a Randy Oliver presentation that every beekeeper should watch, especially new beekeepers who are trying to understand how they should work their hives! Remember, we have Randy Oliver coming to speak at our club event in Everett on September 9th, so you have a chance to hear him in person. I … Read more
The Snohomish Bee Company has purchased a compound microscope for use at our club meetings in order to help members monitor their Nosema infection levels. Our club approached Snohomish Bee Company and asked if they would consider buying the microscope if the club would agree to purchase a transportation box for the scope, the supplies to make … Read more
We are honored to be having two PhD speakers this month coming all the way from WSU! Dr. Jennifer Han, a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Plant Pathology, will be presenting her talk titled “Can Metarhizium save the honey bee?” in which she will be presenting her current research on developing hyper-virulent strains of … Read more
The NorthWest District Beekeepers Association is proud to announce that we are bringing Randy Oliver of scientificbeekeeping.com to speak in Everett, WA on Saturday September 9th 2017. Randy is a commercial beekeeper in California, a careful researcher, and the author of a monthly column in American Bee Journal. It has been a long standing goal of NWDBA … Read more
Here is the list of places that we know about where you can potentially buy either packages of bees, nucs, or queens for 2017. We are providing this to help our members obtain bees this year. It is probably not an exhaustive list – if you know of other sources of bees that are … Read more
The Portland Urban Beekeepers have asked me to announce that they are bringing in Michael Thiele to speak in Portland on March 18th. You can find out more information at https://portlandurbanbeekeepers.org/thiele-march2017/
Here is the link to the research paper on the bacterium found to be infecting bees in parts of the US. http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0167752
For those of you who are interested in the work that Paul Stamets is doing in conjunction with Steve Sheppard’s lab, Paul Stamets and Louie Schwartzberg are giving a talk at the Moore Theater on March 29th. You can find out more information here: http://bees.wsu.edu/seattle/
Seth Smith, a commercial beekeeper and the president of the Skagit Valley Beekeepers Association, will be coming to talk about Nosema this tuesday (February 14th). The goal of the talk is not only to learn about Nosema but to also look at samples from our own hives. To collect samples from your hives open up … Read more