2021 Youth in Beekeeping Scholarship Application Deadline: Friday, November 20, 2020
Forms are available on our website: visit the Youth Scholarship page and click on 2021.
Also, we will be raising funds for our 2021 Youth in Beekeeping Scholarship program. More news soon!
Wednesday, September 16
(please note: 3rd Weds rather than 2nd Weds this month only)
6 to 8 pm via ZOOM
For the link, please email secretary@lcba.community; the Zoom meeting link will be emailed to you the day prior to the meeting.
Busting Varroa Mites with Dr. Danny Najera
Topic: Dr. Danny Najera of Green River College, the “Mite Buster,” will share his research on Varroa control, tips on methods, and more! Bring your questions! At right, the "Mite Busters" patch designed by Dr. Danny Najera & his Green River College Honeybees team. For an article on Danny's work to save honey bees, click here: https://southsoundmag./ . Danny's group is also on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GreenRiverHoneybees/
How to Participate: If you haven’t done Zoom, or don’t have good access, no worries; we will set up our projector & screen at the Apiary with a laptop and those who would like to attend there are welcome – just RSVP to secretary@lcba.community. A link will be sent out to our membership with the Zoom address several days in advance of the meeting. If you haven’t Zoomed yet, no worries; you just click on the links, mute your microphone on your computer till you have a question or comment, and enjoy in the comfort of your own den. You can even disable the camera on your computer if you’d prefer to be invisible – or you can go wild and find your own Zoom background :)
Saturday, October 3
Fall Management Workshop
10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
LCBA's Mentorship Coordinator, Cody Warren, will cover how to make sugar blocks and moisture control boxes, as well as take Q&A on oxalic acid vaporizing and fogging for mite treatment. General fall/winter management Q&A over pizza and pop afterward. This workshop at our club apiary is free, but please preregister to help us plan for refreshments: email secretary@lcba.community.
Wednesday, October 14
Special Topics in Fall Management
6 to 8 pm via ZOOM
Let’s Talk Bees! LCBA Mentors, including Cody Warren, Gottfried Fritz, and others, will cover their approaches to fall and winter management, with Q&A from our audience – more details in the October Bulletin. To register, please email secretary@lcba.community, and you will be put on the Zoom email list to receive the link the morning of the meeting.
Wednesday, November 11
LCBA Monthly Meeting
6 - 8 pm via ZOOM
Speaker: Dr. Dewey Caron; Topic: Working with Africanized Bees
Many beekeepers have noticed that sometimes a package or nuc colony imported from California will turn out to be a “hot” hive: though Africanized bee colonies can’t thrive in our wet Southwest Washington climate, that doesn’t stop their genetics from getting into our apiaries. Dewey has worked with Africanized bees and their keepers in Bolivia each winter for many years, and he will share his experiences in working with these – shall we call them “dynamic”? – highly honey-productive bees. To get the Zoom link, please RSVP to secretary@lcba.community.
Bee Q &A in the Time of Coronavirus & Social Distancing
* LCBA's Education Link on this Website has information & links to resources & videos on topics throughout the beekeeping year. Click on "Education" in the toolbar, above.
* LCBA's Facebook Page: See news items & post questions about bees & beekeeping; get answers from experienced beekeepers. Go to https://www.facebook.com/LewisCountyBeekeepers/?ref=bookmarks or, on FB, search for Lewis County Beekeepers Association.
* Private LCBA Facebook Discussion Group: LCBA members can join a discussion group on the club Facebook page.
* LCBA's Mentor Program: New & nearly-new beekeepers who are members of LCBA can also contact their mentors by phone, email, & work out their own way of social distancing for in-person help with their bees.
*Email with Questions! Beekeepers are also welcome to email secretary@lcba.community with questions.
These are challenging times, friends… please take good care of yourselves, and may we all bee happy spending more time with our families.
Below, making a moisture control box at an LCBA workshop:
