We had a great picnic this year at the OSU Oak Creek Center for Urban Horticulture. It was a warm day, however we had plenty of shade and a nice breeze at times. It was a nice time to get together with other beekeepers and tell some big stories. We did get the chance […]
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General Minutes 7/27/14 The annual Bee Picnic was held at the OSU Oak Creek Center for Urban Horticulture in Corvallis. It was attended by both the members of the Willamette Valley Beekeepers Association and the Linn-Benton Beekeepers Association. Excellent food was brought by everyone, and the weather was great. Richard thanked Bunny Carter for organizing
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The website is up and going thanks to Erin Olmon. SO MANY THANKS to Erin. She is a gracious lady who volunteered her time to design our website for free. Our THANKS to Trevor Riches for all the meetings and time he put into the site. Thank you also to the board, Bunny, Patricia, and
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This book talks for several chapters of beginning beekeeping; the basic hive, different hive boxes, buying and setting up your hive. The author goes on to explain where and how to set up your hive and equipment needed. The first half of this book is a good, simplistic introduction into beekeeping. The second half of
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Black and white photographs illustrate queen rearing and queen maintenance of keeping healthy long lasting queens for your colony. Although not thoroughly biologically nor scientifically all the honey bee queen dynamics, this is a great beginning book and middle of the road read of queen rearing. The author illustrates queen cells, feeding, clipping, making, producing
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An easy, informative “beginning” book about top bar beekeeping with several colorful photos of varying stages of beekeeping! These authors share insights into organic approaches for top-bar beekeeping with the changes needed in the four seasons to manage your hive. Also, there are several pages devoted to problem solving with help on tackling the issues
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Much of the flora has begun to dry out. Some beekeepers are seeing some attempted robbing by the bees when the hive is open. This is a good time to place robbing screens on the hives. There is more of chance that robbing will occur when there is an abundance of hives in a centralized area. Robbing instinct is also hereditary.
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Things will begin to dry out this month. For those in the cities, you can still rely on people’s yards and gardens. Folks in the city seem to water to some degree. For those in the rural areas, pumpkin fields will provide a good source of nectar. Also areas where farmers are irrigating pastures there will be a good nectar source from sub-clover.
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