Member's Login

Program Calendar 2008

  • June 7: Mead Making; Annual Picnic
  • July 5: No Meeting
  • August 2: Topic TBA

More...

May Bee Yard Report

Highlights: brood nest reduction/honey production

Every 10 days,

  • check and add supers as necessary, move less full peripheral super frames into the middle of the existing super
  • only check the broodnest/queen once if a problem is suspected (with the honey flow)!

Later (about 5/22),

  • harvest Spring Wildflower (amber, mostly blackberry) honey - (capped frames); leave uncapped Tulip Poplar (dark) honey supers on hive
  • order Fall queens

Piedmont blossoming dates: Poison Ivy (orange pollen) to 5/23; Tulip Poplar to 5/26; American Holly, 5/1 - 5/16; Raspberry, 5/12 - 6/2; Persimmon, 5/20 - 6/2; Sumac, 5/23 - 6/10

Mountain blossoming dates: American Holly, 5/8 - 5/23; Black Locust, 5/15 - 5/28; Tulip Poplar, 5/25 - 6/18; Sourwood, 6/25 - 7/25

More...

Beekeeping News

COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARD - Winchester Star

Virginia state apiarist, Keith Tignor, will visit Blandy Experimental Farm for the Third Thursday Series from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. today in the library. Cost is $6 for members, $8 nonmembers. He will discuss "Honey Bees in Virginia: 400 Years of ...

Ten things to do to help honeybees - Guardian Unlimited

Dr Ivor Davis, master beekeeper and past president of the British Beekeepers' Association, suggests 10 things anyone can do to help protect our honeybees In areas of the country where there are few agricultural crops, honeybees rely upon garden ...

More...

Meeting Location

The Forsyth County Agricultural Building
1450 Fairchild Rd.
Winston-Salem, NC 27105