March 2018 NEWSLETTER

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1 LANE COUNTY BEEKEEPERS ASSOCIATION 130 HANSEN LANE, EUGENE, OR Website: lcbaor.org March 2018 NEWSLETTER President: Pam Leavitt Vice President: Mike France Treasurer: Polly Habliston Secretary: Jodie Wiktorowski Past President: Max Kuhn Board Members: Francis Rothauge Jim Rundall Kelly Goodwin Rebecca Fain President s Message Pam Leavitt, LCBA President LCBA held another successful Bee School on March 10th. A huge thank you goes to all who made this happen: The speakers who volunteered to share their knowledge with prospective new beekeepers and all the volunteers who helped with registration, compiling the bee school book, the set up and take down crew, and those staffing the LBCA informational table and keeping the coffee and snack tables refreshed. A huge thank you to all our members who brought goodies to share! This month's general meeting will have presentations on Late Winter/Early Spring management, Swarms and Splits by Polly Habliston, Max Kuhn and Chuck Hunt. The early session will be Morris Ostrofsky sharing Bait Boxes. All beekeepers are encouraged to read the newly written Residential Beekeeping: Best Practices for Nuisance Free Beekeeping in Oregon. The link is: This document was written with assistance from Oregon State Beekeepers Association as a guide to beekeepers, the public and local governments for the practice of "nuisance" free beekeeping and how to respond if problems arise. We have several members who have volunteered to be our club's consultants to answer questions and be our spokespersons. Mike Rodia, a representative of the OSBA will be speaking at our April meeting regarding this valuable information. Early Educational Meeting Bait Boxes by Morris Ostrofsky This presentation describes practical uses for bait hives, suggestions for when and how to set them up, placement strategies, and how oxalic acid can help eliminate 90% of the Varroa mites before moving a swarm to a standard hive. Morris also describes his efforts to find feral hives. NEXT MEETING: March 20th, 2018 Come early to socialize and share your questions with experienced beekeepers. Early Educational Class! Bait Boxes Speaker: Morris Ostrofsky Door opens at 6:00 pm Presentation starts at 6:15 Pm Fireside Room General Meeting Hall opens at 7:00 pm Program 7:30 pm Topic: Swarms, Hive Management, & Splits Speakers: Polly Habliston, Max Kuhn, Chuck Hunt Inside this Issue: Trinity United Methodist Church Upcoming Events & Announcements 2 Bee School 3&4 Busy Bee 4 February Meeting Highlights 5 National Pollinator Week 6 BEEvent Conference Summary 6 Early Education Meeting Highlights 7 March Beekeeping Tips 8 Welcome New Members 8 Healthy Bees=Healthy Gardens Request 9 Time is Now 10 PNW Survey of Bee Health 11 Classified Ads 12 Links 13 Officer Directory 14

2 Upcoming Events & Announcements March 16th Friday in the Apiary, Beekeepers Showcase Beekeepers are innovative people. Do you have an interesting gadget or idea to share or come and just learn and listen. Location: Oak Creek Center (OSU Apiary) 3:00 5:00 pm RSVP: carolyn.breec Sign up to received notifications: March 21st Linn Benton Beekeeping Assoc. Meeting Economical Ornamentals for Bee Forage, Darren Morgan, Shonnard s Nursery Location: Corvallis Waldorf School, 6:30 8:30 pm Visit their website for more information. March 28th Central Coast Beekeepers Assoc. Installing package bees and what to expect in the spring, Carolyn Breece, OSU Bee Lab Location: Newport Library, 35 NW Nye Street, Newport 2 April 20th 21st 2018 Glory Bee Weekend Two day community event with beekeeping education, distribution of pre ordered packages of live bees, live demonstrations, honey sampling, onsite food vendors and other activities. weekend 2018 April 14th Save the Bee 5K Run/Walk Location: Richardson Park, Fern Ridge Reservoir Cost: $25 Ages 18 59, $15 Ages 17 & Under and 60 & Over. All proceeds go to Save the Bee the bee 5k.html May 20th Trifecta Beekeeping Event, Sponsored by Brushy Mountain Bee Farm & BG Bees Location: Hood River, Oregon Speakers: Thomas Seeley, Andony Melathooulos, Alison McAfee Register by March 31st for early bird registration discount. This event may fill up quickly so register early if you plan on attending. For more information and registration: bees.com/seeley melathopoulos mcafee April 7th Southern Oregon Beekeepers Assoc. Bee School 2018 The Art and Science of Keeping Bees in the Rogue Valley Location: 569 Hanley Road, Central Point, OR Cost: $45 For more information: andevents/soba beginning beekeeper class Friday in the Apiary at OSU "Friday in the Apiary" is an opportunity to gather, visit, and learn more about beekeeping at OSU's apiary at the Oak Creek Center for Urban Horticulture. Every third Friday of the month, you are invited to come and discuss hive management strategies for the month and get to know other beekeepers. This is a casual, loosely structured event intended to provide a learning experience in a relaxed setting. Sign up to received notifications at: Are you a Tom Seeley Fan? If so be sure to checkout the two events he will be at this year May 20th & September 15th. Sept 15th Tom Seeley Event Location: TBD somewhere in the Portland area Cost: Early Bird by Aug. 15th $40, after the 15th $50 Sponsored by: Portland Urban Beekeepers Assoc. For more information: Kelly s Beekeeping Website: Lane County Hiveways Follow Kelly as she does her inspections, observations, and other beekeeping activities. Florence Garden Club visit their face book page at Swarm List Judy Scher is completing the updated swarm list on our website. Be sure to get any updated information to her as soon as possible. The list is intended for members only that will collect swarms. It is not for those wanting swarms. You must have experience in removing swarms to be on the list and you have to be a current member with dues paid for Check to make sure your information is correct by clicking on the link: To insure the information gets added correctly please contact Judy Scher at: judyscher@gmail.com or

3 Bee School LCBA had another successful bee school on Saturday, the 10th. There were 42 attendees. Our scholarship recipients were Lynn Hellwege, Paula Sablosky, Fonta Molyneaux, and Blaize Shawbuck. Thanks to all our members and attendees who brought snacks to share! They were enjoyed by all! Speakers Jodi Wiktorowski Attendees looked at bee parts. Jonathan Loftin Morris Ostrofsky Pam Leavitt President Chuck Hunt Judy Scher Brittany with Glory Bee Max Kuhn Brandt Weaver Ken Ograin Special Thanks LCBA would also like to thank Glory Bee for donating a 3 lb package of bees for our door prize and several hive tools. They had a table with supplies for new beekeepers to look at. Bee Culture also gave us magazine copies for the class registrants. Door prize winner, package of bees, Pam Mallick with LCBA VP Mike France Thank You Glory Bee!

4 4 LCBA Helpers Katharine Hunt Rita Ostrofsky Rick Olson, Rebecca Fain, Jim Rundall Mike Harrington Anita & Arthur Jones Polly Habliston Les Leavitt LCBA President Pam Leavitt was very busy this month. She and her husband Les were at the Science Busy Bee Center on Sunday, March 4th, sharing information about honey bees. The day was dedicated to invertebrates. They had a display and were asked some great questions. Pam also did an interview with a Northwest Christian University student by phone. She was required to question a local beekeeper to share their experience with bee losses. On March 6th Pam visited Junction City High School. She was invited by a biology teacher to talk about honey bees. Pam said the 17 students were very attentive and asked questions that demonstrated their attention to what was shared. LCBA encourages community outreach to talk about bees and if you present to a group or volunteer at an event, please be sure contact Pam Leavitt at pamseaver2000@yahoo.com.

5 Announcements: Pam thanked Trinity Methodist Church for accommodating the club for the meeting while the Egan warming center was open. A reminder that it is very important to keep your education regarding beekeeping up to date. Journals and bee meetings are a good way to continue your education. Kelly Goodwin was unable to make it tonight due to the weather. Judy Scher filled in as presenter. February Meeting Highlights by Jodi Wiktorowski, LCBA Secretary Judy Scher won the Glory Bee gift certificate for those who donated honey for the home show. Speaker: Judy Scher, Early Spring Management 5 Judy covered what she referred to as early spring, the time spanning from spring until swarming begins. Judy warned of the difficulties the bees face in early spring with the fluctuation in the weather. At this point, the queen has started to lay eggs and the population is building up. The bees have started to bring in pollen, but the increasing population is rapidly consuming the remaining honey and pollen stores. Beekeepers must be prepared for this fluctuation! The biggest threat to a colony in early spring is starvation! We need to remember to keep a close eye on the honey stores and feeding the hive if the stores are low. Hefting the hive will give some idea to the amount of honey stores remaining. If the hive is light, it should be fed! On warmer days, a quick peak may reveal the cluster sitting at the very top of the hive. This is also a clear indication that they have worked through their honey stores and need an emergency feeding. While the outside temperatures remain cool, it is best to feed the bees solid fondant. Once it begins to warm up, then feeding 1:1 sugar water is ok. The second important threat to monitor early in the spring is varroa load in the hive. At this time your hives should average less than five mites per day on a sticky board. Remember that if you are placing a sticky board below a screened bottom board, you may get a false low number if the bottom board has not been cleared of winter debris. A dry collection board can be placed on top of the screen bottom board to get an accurate count, but it must be dry! If you discover that your hive has a high varroa count in early spring, treatment should be considered! There are treatments available now that can be used in the colder weather. Judy suggested everyone be familiar with the information and videos available on the LCBA website regarding varroa management. Judy pointed out that the debris pattern on the sticky board is a very valuable tool. The debris pattern can tell your if your cluster is centered in the hive or if it has moved to one side of the hive. If the cluster has moved to the side there is risk of the colony starving because they do not have access to honey. This is an emergency! If this is the case, it is important to re-center the cluster, but care must be taken to only do this on a day when it is above 50 degrees outside. Be sure to use mouse guards, and moisture boxes through spring. Queen excluders absolutely must be off the hive. Judy suggested that mid to late March is the time for the first full hive inspection, which should occur on a day when the outside temperature is at least 60 degrees. During this quick inspection, the queen does not necessarily need to be located, but you should see evidence of a queen with the presence of eggs and brood. Worker bees should be bringing in pollen to rear the brood. A healthy hive should have at least 5 frames of bees and there should be both honey and pollen stores available for rearing brood. You can also look for evidence of chalk brood and move the hive to a sunny location if it is a problem. Once the weather begins to warm, and you ve inspected your hive, it is time to clean the bottom board, remove moisture boxes, reverse boxes, stimulate weaker colonies by providing pollen patties and feeding 1:1 sugar syrup, watch for the presence of drone, continue to monitor your varroa counts, and always keep good notes! Late March to early April is when brood rearing increases to coincide with the increased nectar flows. This is the time when your hive is preparing to swarm. Drone brood will likely increase now so that they are ready for new queens. You should watch for queen cups being prepared along the edges of your frames. The job of beekeepers during this time is to equalize hives, feed sugar syrup, continue to monitor varroa numbers, and to trap yellow jacket queens! Equalizing hives, either by combining them or giving weaker hives frames from stronger hives, will give your weaker hives a better chance of survival. Late March to early April is also the time for swarm control! Swarming is natural for the hive, but for beekeepers it is best avoided! The bees are building up their numbers by rearing brood. As beekeepers, we want the highest population of worker bees to coincide with the best nectar flow. If your hive swarms, there will be fewer worker bees available to. It is continued on page 6

6 6 February highlights continued important to give the queen plenty of space to lay eggs and for the colony to rear brood. If you haven t already, reversing boxes will give lots of room if the bottom box is empty. Adding supers at this time will also give them plenty of room. There will be more discussion on swarm control at another meeting, but Judy pointed out that there are several methods you can use. Separating the queen from the brood is the best method of swarm control. Creating nucs, splitting hives, and giving young brood to a new hive or swarm all can be used. If you find queen cups with royal jelly or eggs present, your hive is going to swarm! NATIONAL POLLINATOR WEEK JUNE 18-24, 2018 Lane County Beekeepers will be celebrating Pollinator Week on Saturday, June 23, 2018 at The Eugene Science Center. The science center has donated space for us to set up a booth and Glory Bee donated a complete Langstroth hive to use for the children to decorate. The hive will be painted and then stenciled with bees, butterflies and flower outlines for the children to color. We also plan to have our observation hive there, which always draws people in and stimulates many questions. The National American Butterfly Association of Eugene will also be joining us for this event. Their booth will have butterfly pictures for children to color as well as informational handouts. In addition, the Oregon Bee Project will supply us with coloring books and postcards of native Oregon bees. Andony Melathopoulos, with Oregon State University s Oregon Bee Project, will also be there to share his expertise. After the event, the decorated Langstroth hive will be donated to the Oregon Bee Project. They will display it at the Oregon State Beekeepers Association Annual Conference on October 26-28, 2018 which will be held at the Salem Convention Center. Raffle tickets will be sold to raise funds to support their work with native bees. We are looking for volunteers to help at the pollinator event at Eugene Science Center. Please contact Pam Leavitt if you are interested. pamseaver2000@yahoo.com or Event Details Date: Saturday, June 23, 2018 Time: 12:00 m to 4:00pm Location: The Eugene Science Center, 2300 Leo Harris Parkway, Eugene, located behind Autzen Stadium BEEvent Pollinator Conference Summary Doug and I attended the 4 th Annual Pollinator Conference in Albany, March 3, This all-day event, a miniversion of the OSBA Conference, is close to home for Eugene-ites, and packed with valuable information. Topics ranged from Flowering plants Bringing the Pollen to Pollinators to Mason Bees-the Super Pollinators to Creating a Sustainable Environment in your Yard for our Native Pollinators. What s not to love? Two things stand out as take-home information: A soon to be released website, Flora of Oregon, is expected to be available sometime in April. It will have a detailed description of Oregon plants, why they are important and where to find them, with links for additional information. Also, their discussion of care and nurturing of mason bees was the best I ve ever heard. I m so glad we attended the event. Polly Habliston

7 7 Early Educational Class: Why Did My Bees Die? The main reasons bees die are: Our February meeting had an early educational meeting on Why Did My Bees Die presented by Mike France, LCBA Vice President. He talked about the different reasons why bees die as well as clues, tips and prevention. Varroa Mites Moisture/Condensation Too Weak Going into Winter Blocked Entrance Starvation Yellow Jackets Absconding due to Irritants Pesticides, Herbicides & Other Toxins Other Diseases Nosema, AFB, Chalkbrood The first thing to do is to examine your hive from the bottom to the top. If there are very few dead bees in your hive, it may mean the colony worked hard at removing them until the last minute. Try to find some dead ones on the bottom board, landing board, or even on the ground nearby. Sift through them and look for bees with deformed wings. The presence of many deformed wings is a good indicator of Varroa. If you have a bottom board or Varroa tray in place, look for mites. If the colony died from mites, you will find mites in the debris. Look for frames of honey. A hive with plenty of honey and no bees can be a sign of Varroa. A hive with no bees and honeycombs with jagged edges indicates a weak or dead hive that was invaded by robbers, which can also be a sign of Varroa. Examine the brood frames. Adult bees that died while they were emerging, or just before, may have been weakened by Varroa. These bees will have their heads facing up. (Bees that starved while searching for food in the cells will have their tail ends up.) Hold up the empty brood frames with the sun at your back so you can see inside the cells. If you find bright white deposits adhering to the inside of brood cells, you can be sure of a Varroa infestation. These white spots are patches of mite excrement that contain about 95% pure guanine, an amino acid. Mike talked about some preventative measures you can take. Mites: You need to know your mite levels going into fall, especially in July, August, September and October. If levels are too high, treat with appropriate treatment. Know the temperature treatment range; use the most effective treatment for time of year. Oxalic acid should only be used when there in no brood present, fall and winter. Moisture: Tilt hive forward 1 ; add moisture box; use screened bottom board. Small Cluster Going into Winter: Combine weak hives in fall with stronger, healthy hives; know your mite count even on weak hives; feed pollen patties in the fall to make Fat Bees. Entrance Blocked by Dead Bees: Prevention. Periodically clean hive entrance with a stick or hive tool. Starvation: Heft hive from the back. If light feed bees 2:1 sugar water if temperature is 50 degrees or above; if below 50 degrees, feed dry sugar, fondant, candy canes. Yellow Jacket Invasion: Bait traps near hive, reduce entrance as much as possible, use a robbing screen. Absconding: There are very few reasons bees would leave a perfectly good home in the fall for the unknown. Some may be fleeing from Irritants inside or outside the Hive, mite treatment overpowering, pesky creatures may force fleeing (skunks, raccoons and bears). Mike also talked about what to do with your equipment after the bees have died. Tap out the dead bees and uncapped nectar. Freeze frames for 48 hours. Scrape out the propolis from brood box. Clean off burr comb from inside the hive and inner cover or top. Cull out old broken frames and replace brood frames/foundation every 5 years. For more information visit: Tools for Varroa Management and Supporting Videos (page 11):

8 March Beekeeping Tips by Chuck Hunt 1. March is the month to treat your bees if you haven t already. Be sure and check for mites. Count your mites and see if you need to do a treatment. Grease patties and miticide strips should be in the hive in March. Pick a time that is relatively warm (about 55 degrees) and quickly apply your medications. 2. Bees will be increasing their buildup during this month. Make sure that adequate stores are in place. Don t count on any early spring honey flow since the bees often cannot fly due to poor weather. A hive should never have less than 15 pounds of honey or stores. This is about five western frames or three deep frames of solid honey. 3. You can feed your bees at this time since it is beginning to warm enough that they can handle nectar or syrup. A mixture of one part sugar to two parts water fed to the bees at this time will stimulate increased brood rearing and help your hives survive the winter and build up in the months to come. Be careful of swarming when you stimulate your hives this way. Also, remember that feeding stimulating syrup will increase brood rearing and subsequent need for stores. Watch such hives carefully. 4. Entrance reducers can probably be removed at this time. You might want to clean the bottom board of any debris or dead bees and make sure that it is dry. 5. If weather permits, it is advisable to even up or balance your hives. This means that those hives that are overflowing with bees and brood should have some brood removed. These removed bees and brood should be given to hives that are weak to boost their strength. 8 MAKE SURE THAT YOU DO NOT TAKE THE QUEEN FROM THE STRONG HIVE ALONG WITH THE TRANS- FERRED FRAMES. Don t take more than 20 % of the bees and brood from the strong hive. *Note: This is not recommended for 1st year beekeepers. 6. Also, if your hives are bursting at the seams, you can reverse your brood boxes. Usually, the lower box will be empty of brood. Take this empty box and place it on top of the second box. The second box, with all its brood, bees and queen will become the bottom or first box as a result. The queen will then move up into the new, and now empty, second box. 7. Watch out for swarm cells as the month progresses and moves into early April. Swarm cells look like peanuts that have not been shelled and are placed at the edges of the frames (usually). Various swarm control techniques can be used, including splitting your hives. Splitting simply involves dividing the brood and boxes in the strong hive and starting a new hive. In the queenless half of these two hives, you may let the bees raise a new queen. Make sure that queenless half has eggs from which to raise this queen. This process will take about four weeks. You can also order a queen for the queenless half from a queen breeder. 8. If a hive is very weak, queenless and not worth saving, unite it with another hive that needs a boost. Place a newspaper between the two hives and let the bees chew the obstruction away. They will unite peacefully. 9. Think about re-queening any hives that are chronically weak or unproductive. A new and healthy queen will help the buildup and now is the time to order that queen. Look for disease resistance and hygienic queens 10. Watch out for yellow jacket queens and use pheromone traps for them. Any queens you capture in the spring will greatly reduce the problems with yellow jackets in the late summer and fall. Welcome New Members Scott Adams Anna Alkin Eva Wright Bever Rayleen Burnett & Apollo Dennis Patti Johnson Victoria Long Donald Markwick Monroe Eugene Eugene Springfield Yachats Junction City Eugene Bonnie & Dean Mogstad Fonta Molyneaux Richard Pollard Jerry Selness & Jewel Weigand Jason & Jen Skovbo Tiffanie White Springfield Dorena Springfield Springfield Cheshire Eugene

9 Healthy Bees=Healthy Gardens - Looking for Volunteers I ve been beekeeping for nine years and am looking to mentor a few reliable, enthusiastic beekeepers to help with caring for bees, catching swarms and relocating them to healthy homes, extracting honey, creating more pesticide free spaces and planting pollinator gardens for the health of all people, pets, plants and pollinators. I m looking for a volunteer to help approximately four to six hours per week with multiple hands-on beekeeping opportunities. I care for Langstroth hives depending on the time of year. I am also looking for help with local educational events. I teach honey bee and mason bee education at The Village School for 3-5th grade students and care for a hive on site. I would like help with lesson plans and teaching the children. (Usually students per class.) I am also hoping to teach other home school/ charter school students this spring and fall, but I need more help before I start making contact with the teachers. I have a fun hands-on style of teaching the children to not fear or want to kill honey bees and mason bees. Instead I want them to choose to treat them with respect and to give the bees safe space so they can pollinate for us. Healthy Bees = Healthy Gardens...Mission statement is dedicated to helping the honeybees...1 garden at a time. Please feel free to contact me with any questions. Thank you for your support. Jen Hornaday cell phone is healthybeeshealthygardens@gmail.com 9

10 10 The Time is Now! by Ken Ograin, LCBA Member Now is the time to start controlling yellow jackets. In the PNW last fall nests produced many queens which mated and have now been in hibernation through the winter. With the daytime temperatures hitting the 60 s you can be assured that those queens will be coming out of hibernation. If you burn wood for heat you may be seeing them in your house as they love to hibernate in those wood piles. Then when you bring that wood into your warm house they awake and head to a sunny window. This will be your first chance at controlling their numbers. Queens are large and make a loud buzzing sound, this makes it easy to identify them at this time of year. I use a twoprong approach at eliminating them before they can establish a nest, a large butterfly net and a pheromone trap. The one I have used for many years now is the Rescue Reusable Yellow Jacket Trap with the 10 Week Supply Attractant Cartridge, model # YJTC. Unlike the traps I use for yellow jacket workers later in the season, I place these about head high hanging from building eaves or from a tree branch near my hives. You will have about four to five weeks to eliminate queens before they stay in their nest and just lay eggs. When a queen starts her nest she has to do everything, find a suitable nesting site, build comb, feed herself and her hatching eggs and keep the eggs and larvae warm, Their lifecycle is very similar to that of honey bees, so until enough workers hatch and are able to take on the duties of feeding and tending the brood, she will be flying to gather food. If you have concerns about paper wasps, Recue has a trap for that, Trapstik. It works, and I have used them for the past three years and have only caught one honey bee. They have cut down on the numbers and nests around my outbuildings. Keep in mind that paper wasps are not harmful to honey bees and can be beneficial in your gardens. In an upcoming newsletter I will write about dealing with established nests and dealing with those workers yellow jackets.

11 11 PNW SURVEY OF BEE HEALTH & BEEKEEPING PRACTICES Survivorship Survey, by Dr. Dewey M. Caron Last year, 334 Oregon/Washington backyarder beekeepers returned April surveys on overwintering colony losses/ survivorship, and management such as colony feeding, sanitation and Varroa sampling control. The results are posted on website: There is a report (see individual club reports by expanding black bar sideways) for Lane County. I very much appreciate the 29 responses from LCBA Beekeepers last year; however it was seven fewer than the year before and 17 less than two years ago. I am seeking to reverse this downward trend. At one time 70 LCBA members responded.. Colony loss levels from all 282 OR respondents were 44% for 8-frame and 48% for 10-frame Langstroth hive beekeepers, 57% for 5-frame nucs. 64% for top bar hives and 55% for Warré hives. For the 29 Lane Co respondents, overall losses were 50%, two percentage points above the overall Oregon beekeeper losses (48%). This was a huge increase from previous years, and the largest loss level in 9 years of Lane Co surveys. (see loss graph). Nine LCBA individuals (31%) had total loss and 5 (17%) had total survival. Eight individuals lost one colony, three lost two colonies, two lost 3 colonies and one individual lost 5 colonies; greatest loss was by one respondent who lost 17 colonies. For the most recent overwintering period ( ), the electronic survey is now open and will be until end of April. It should take no more than 5-7 minutes to complete. Information requested this year is very similar to previous years but I have trimmed the survey so it is shorter with fewer questions. While the main emphasis of the survey revolves around reporting how many colonies you had last fall compared to this spring, which we assess through hive location, hive types and originations (meaning were they overwintered colonies, nucs or packages purchased, swarms or splits), other survey questions relate to some of the basic managements you might do for varroa control. There is no magic bullet to achieve a reduced mite number. The Lane report shows some things that worked for some individuals. Feeding dry sugar and some basic sanitation and providing colonies a distinct address helped some individuals keep loses lower. Monitoring for mites and use of some controls also resulted in lower losses by Lane beekeepers who used them. THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS PAST SEASON. Please consider completing a survey for the season. Click on link below to take survey. Open now until April 30th.

12 12 Classified Ads Bee-related classified ads cost $5.00/month for non-members and are free to members. Classified ads run for three issues and may be renewed by contacting the editor. Bee-related business ads start at $35 a year. To place an ad, contact Nancy Ograin by the 1st of the month or via nancy.ograin@gmail.com. Assistance for New Beekeepers If you need help or advice in the construction of your Woodenware Lee Yamada is offering his woodworking knowledge. Contact him at: LEE YAMADA lkyboletes@gmail.com For Sale Warré Beehives I sell complete kits for Warré top-bar beehives and also fully assembled hives. See the details at (under products) For Sale 2 ea Langstroth Bee Hives Constructed from Glorybee kits Each hive has a screen bottom board, inner lid, outer lid (with metal top), entrance anti-robber screen, 2 deep supers, 2 honey supers, outer surfaces painted, 40 wooden frames (30 already built and 10 unbuilt). Each built frame has wired wax foundation (wires in both directions). Each hive has about 20 frames with drawn comb. Some parts are new, some lightly used. Also available: 1 ea Wooden stand for hive 2 ea Green plastic frames for drone brood for mite control Roll of wire on board for wiring frames 2 ea Metal rollers for embedding wires in wax foundation 2 ea Metal frame lifters Extra wax foundation or call for details and prices: Sharon Blick, livingearthfarm@comcast.net Bee Funny T-Shirts 100% of the proceeds to the OSU Bee Research Lab, Ramesh Sagali. Support Bee Research! I also offer free guidance in Warré top-bar beekeeping. Bill Wood ~ (541) ~ beeologique@gmail.com For discounts on American Bee Journal subscriptions contact Nancy Ograin for discount form LCBA New/Renewal Memberships $25 per year per household or family Please remit payment to: LCBA Treasurer, Polly Habliston 1258 Dalton Dr., Eugene, OR polly@uoregon.edu Membership forms for new members and renewals are available on the LCBA website. Click here to access. NEWSLETTER CONTACT INFORMATION The LCBA newsletter is published eleven times a year by the Lane County Beekeepers Association, 130 Hansen Lane, Eugene, OR Sample copies may be requested from the editor. Copyright resides with individual contributors. If you would like to reprint anything you see here, please contact the editor. Permission is normally granted freely for non-profit use. For advertisements, please contact the editor or the association treasurer by the first of the month. Editor: Nancy Ograin , nancy.ograin@gmail.com

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14 Officers and Directors President: Pam Leavitt Vice President: Mike France Secretary: Jodi Wiktorowski Treasurer: Polly Habliston Directors: Kelly Goodwin Francis Rothauge (contact by phone) Jim Rundall Rebecca Fain Past President: Max Kuhn Committees: Library Anita & Arthur Jones LCBA Sales Mike Harrington Bee School Ken Ograin Website Judy Scher Newsletter Editor Nancy Ograin Facilities Coordinator Jim Rundall LCBA Scholarships Katharine Hunt Oregon Master Beekeeper Coordinator Rita Ostrofsky Oregon Master Beekeepers Lane County Regional Representative Rick Olson