Linn Benton Beekeepers Association
Local Learning, Support & Fun
What is your Plan?
This month’s guest speaker is Dewey Caron. He will be highlighting how to manage colonies mid-May through June with an emphasis on keeping strong colonies growing and avoiding swarming. How to manage weak colonies and newly established colonies from divides, swarm captures, nucs and packages. This will be an interactive presentation with the audience.
Meeting starts at 6:30.
We will be having our members only field day on Sunday, June 23rd from 10:00-2:30 at the OSU Apiary located at the Oak Creek Center for Urban Horticulture. The address is 844 SW 35th St in Corvallis. Please follow the signs for parking across the street from the apiary. Check-in starts at 9:00 am.
Space is limited because of the number of hives available for inspection, so sign up early to get one of the spaces.
In the morning we will have three presentations:
We will then take a short lunch break, box lunches will be available for purchase at the time of submitting registration online. They will NOT be available to purchase the day of the event. After the lunch break, we will split into groups and get into the hives at the apiary. You will be led by an experienced beekeeper, who will show you the things you should be looking for while inspecting your hives. Experienced beekeepers attending will be getting into hives that are having issues.
To attend, each person will be required to sign an OSU Waiver and Assumption of Risks Agreement OSU OSBA 2019. Please print it out, sign it and bring it the day of the event.
Things to bring: Veil, jacket or suit, gloves and a lawn chair.
This months speaker will be Andony Melathopoulos from OSU.
The topic of his talk is “Hot To Keep Your Bees Out Of Trees So They Can Make Honey”.
This months speaker will be Ellen Topitzhofer from OSU speaking on “Honey Bee Nutrition”.
This will be a two-part talk. First, she’ll discuss basic nutrition requirements and how bees find what they need, and second, the what/how/when for beekeepers artificially feeding their colonies.
This months speaker will be Jen Holt from OSU Honey Bee Lab speaking on “Spring Management for Beginning Beekeepers”
Springtime is a busy time for bees and beekeepers. This talk will cover spring hive inspections (reading frames, assessing food resources, and more!), the mechanics of swarming, what to expect when you peek inside your hives and more! She will also give a brief overview of the Master Beekeeper program and introduce everyone to their new website.