DAY: SATURDAY, November 16, 2019 Time: 9:00am – 4:00pm WHERE: Maryland Department of Agriculture 50 Harry S Truman Parkway, Annapolis, MD (MAP) WHAT: MSBA will convene its 111th Annual Fall Meeting, Elections and 83rd Honey Show!
LOCATION: University of Maryland/College Park
Expert speakers include: Dr Gene Robinson on the GENTLE AFRICANIZED BEES. David Morris on how to prepare entries for JUDGING. Suzy Spencer honey tasting. Enter YOUR HONEY in our contest!
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We have new features to share information with you, and for you to share MSBA info with your friends. MSBA’s website has added an interactive CALENDAR with several features, including letting you sync bee events to your personal calendar. We also have PRINT and SOCIAL SHARING buttons so you can Read More …
EXPERT presenters will include:
Dr. Samuel Ramsey, cutting edge VARROA MITE researcher expert.
William Sprenkle, QUEEN REARING and evaluations. How to improve your own stock, Mark Dykes, Bee Squad coordinator for the vanEngelsdorp Bee Lab, and Cybil Preston, MD Apiary Inspector. Read More …
MSBA now has special web pages to help you connect with other beekeepers and the public. Checkout these great NEW FEATURES…
… “LOCAL HONEY FOR SALE”….
“BUY/SELL BEES”… “MSBA ONLINE DIRECTORY”, and a lot more
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The Art Institute of Chicago has made public 82,000+ high resolution digital images of paintings, prints and other artifacts. All are completely free to download and reuse. I typed “bee” into the search engine and was delighted to find this gem of a print from hundreds of hits. This is from 1578 by Joannes Stradanus, a Flemish artist who Read More …
“You’re not going to find anything in your price range that isn’t full of bees.”
What a crazy weather year! I was hearing about swarms all the way into September…WEIRD!!!!
Unfortunately I am again seeing a large number of “Fall Crash or “Fall Dwindle.” Without opening the beehive you’d think it is a fairly strong because robbing bees can make the hive look industrious. Some symptoms are more than a handful of dead bees in front of the hive with normal activity inside: upon inspection no bees at all meaning no brood no nothing. Some of these hives were treated for mites some were not. My diagnosis is that this is mite/viral load-related. Read More …
