News & Events: Information on Meetings and other News & Events
NCSBA's Facebook
August 25, 2017
The NCSBA’s Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/ncbeekeepers) is now being managed by two volunteer editors, Whitney Barnes of the Person County Beekeepers and Christi Henthorn of the Granville County Beekeepers. Chapters are encouraged to designate someone to submit their event information to the editors for posting. Beekeepers can become members of the group page and share ideas and photos. There are some rules and expectations for posting on NCSBA’s Facebook page. Please log on to Facebook and read the information that the editors have posted about the events page as well as the group page. Thank you to Whitney and Christi for keeping the NCSBA connected!
Rick Coor
NCSBA President
Attention beekeepers of the NCSBA
August 25, 2017
Many of us have heard about the Beehive Grant Fund which was approved this year by the NC General Assembly. The North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services’ Agricultural Development and Farmland Preservation Trust Fund officials have asked the NCSBA to forward information concerning the fund and how to submit an application to the members of the NCSBA. Information has been posted at www.ncbeekeepers.org and the North Carolina State Beekeepers Association Facebook page. Interested persons should read this information in its entirety and email any questions to the Born and Bred Program chairman Paul Newbold at beefarmer1349@gmail.com
Rick Coor
NCSBA President
Ashe County Beekeeping Association Resource List
August 14, 2017
Open the attached - UPDATED - downloadable document that provides a host of resource materials for beekeepers in Ashe County.
Oxalic Acid Towel Treatment
Follow-up Posting from Greg Fariss
Everyone please remember that oxalic acid and glycerin on shop towels is not an approved (legal) method to control Varroa mites in your bee colonies. As far as I know, the formulations you can find here and there online are tested by individuals, often on very few hives – sometimes as few as 1 or 2 during one season. Efforts like this in the past have often resulted in poor/no mite control or dead colonies from overdosing. As we all know, a lot of the stuff you see online is often advanced by people who have little experimental experience and often poor experimental design. Following those formulations makes your bees part of those weak experiments. My suggestion is to wait for controlled studies run by recognizable research folks so you’re sure you can get good mite control and not brood, queen, or colony damage.
Gregory Fariss
Apiary Inspector
NCDA&CS
(336) 671-2883
gregory.fariss@ncagr.gov
Oxalic Acid Towel Treatment
Forwarded by Alleghany County Beekeeper Bob Jones
* At a recent meeting, Jack Cahn showed a program on Oxalic Acid Towel Treatment and another video on extraction. The towel treatment is so important, a link is posted here.
* Thanks to Jill McKinney for this information.
Alarm Pheromone
Note from Rob Baldwin, NCAGR
Yesterday, I picked up a bunch of stink bugs around the house and delivered them to my fish in the pond. I then went over to check on my bees...WRONG DECISION!!!!! I have worked in the bug industry forever and I found out only yesterday that stink bug warning pheromone solicits a sting response from honeybees. Bam!
Rob
Raw Sugar
Domino Sugar, 500 Domino Court, Charlotte, NC
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