You have probably pulled your supers off your hives and harvested honey. Now is the time to think about monitoring and controlling varroa. Here is a helpful guide to the lifecycle of varroa mites and some information about monitoring and estimating the varroa levels in your hives. While I don’t particularly like the Apivar treatment … Read more
In thanks for the continued willingness of WSU to send speakers to our club meetings NWDBA made a donation to help with the the proposed new bee research facility. We wanted to share the thank you letter that we received back and to also ask or members and those visiting our website to consider donating … Read more
It’s been a long time since I posted to the blog and I just got back from a week away from my hives and wow! What a difference! I got hammered by losses this winter and so I started off this season with 2 overwintered hives (1 very weak, 1 ok) and 6 “nucs”. I … 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
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/