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President's Corner

Swarms, Swarms and then more swarms!!! What a crazy start to the month. The phone is ringing of the hook with people with honey bee issues. Lots of free bees to be had so brush up on your retrievel methods and go get them. Always remember that you are representing the honey bee world so give them your best efforts. I know that the club library has a super DVD on swarms from Dave Duncan. It is definately worth a watch. This should be a great year for raising your own queens even if you don't use a grafting method. Split divides will work and right now will requeen on its own. This would also help curb some of the swarming going on. Check on those hive and see how much storage room they have left for the queen to lay. The honey supers will be going on early this year! Hopefully, we will have a record breaking honey crop.

Here's to a great season in your apiary. See you at the meeting.

Committee Announcements

I would like to ask for a person to head a picnic committee and plan some games, prizes and of course a raffle. If you are interested, please let me know by email or see me after the meeting.

The Bee Festival at the Medina Library will be needing a few volunteers, even new beekeepers can come and help out. Please let me know if you can help!

Announcements

New Mentor list

MCBA has a strong mentoring tradition. In the past, we let everyone know who was willing to serve as a mentor only via our club roster. In order to help new beekeepers find us, we are experimenting with an online mentor list. If you are interested in serving as a member, please just add yourself to the list.

(If you do not yet have an account to edit this site, please email our webmaster.)

New Medina County Apiary Inspector

Medina County has a new Apiary inspector. He is Dustin Thompson from the Columbus area. His contact information is (614) 397-8963 (cell), and deesbeesofohio@yahoo.com . According to the ODA web site Richard Sprague is also still listed as an inspector. His contact information is (330) 225-5875, rspr2077@roadrunner.com .

Need Another County Apiary Inspector

The Ohio Department of Agriculture continues to look for County Apiary Inspectors for Geauga and surrounding counties. They are looking for NE counties, both East and West. read more

First-time users

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Picture of the month

Italians drew comb in 6 days (Click to Enlarge)

Drones capped for Varroa Trap

Topics of Interest

• MCBA - the Club - become a member, talk about meetings, upcoming events and other things specific to the club
  • Calendar (or click the link in the navigation box at left)
  • Newsletters
  • Beeyard reports
  • Swarm list (which you can now update yourself)
• Bee diseases & parasites - for discussion of varroa, tracheal mites, Foulbrood and all the other things that can kill your bees.
• Classifieds - Buy, sell, trade or talk about beekeeping equipment - what works, what doesn't and why.
• Getting started with bees - questions for and by new beekeepers. Where should I put my hives? What do I really need? How hard is it?
• Urban beekeeping - articles and experiences with beekeeping near people
• Blessings of the Bees - some prayers, poems and other evidence of the spiritual connection between bees and mankind.
• Resources and links - hundreds more links of questionable value
• Photo albums - Look here for photos of Medina Beekeepers
• Bait Hives Why not try to attract a swarm in your good, clean, unused equipment?
• Growing Degree Days Want to know what's in bloom or about to? Looking to make varietal honey? One way to tell is by Growing Degree Days.

What's New on the website

18 May 2012

• (diff | hist) . . Swarm list‎; 13:38 . . (+20) . . Rob Mueller (Talk | contribs)

17 May 2012

• (diff | hist) . . Newsletters‎; 12:30 . . (+27) . . Tntalarcon (Talk | contribs) (→The Bee Herder: Added May)
• (Upload log); 12:28 . . Tntalarcon (Talk | contribs) uploaded "File:BeeHerder201205.pdf"

16 May 2012

• (diff | hist) . . Medina Beekeepers talk:Advertising policy‎; 22:35 . . (-5,190) . . Mike Rossander (Talk | contribs) (Policy adopted on 2012 May 16 by the Executive Committee. The discussion leading up to the policy is archived into pagehistory.)
• (diff | hist) . . Medina Beekeepers:Advertising policy‎; 22:34 . . (+2,578) . . Mike Rossander (Talk | contribs) (approved by the Executive Committee on 2012 May 16)

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