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1 Newsetter of the Oregon State Beekeepers Association Voume 40 Number 9 October 2015 IN THIS ISSUE... Varroa Mite 1 President s Message 2 OSBA Board Meeting 3 Conference Registration 6 Conference Agenda 7 Resources 8 Regiona News 10 Keeping Bees 12 Honey Shows 13 Upcoming Events 14 Oregon Garden Map 14 Mary Edwards Oregon State Beekeepers Association Webmaster: Erin Omon orsbawebmaster@gmai.com Oregon Master Beekeeper Program A Joint Venture of OSBA and the Oregon State University Extension Service info@oregonmasterbeekeeper.org Image above: Yes, definitey, what we want! For the forms for subscriptions to American Bee Journa and OSBA membership/renewas, pease send an e-mai to osba.newsetter@gmai. com or phone We get copies to you, either by e-mai or mai, this month. VARROA MITE ALERT Hope a of you had a reativey successfu bee year with strong hives and significant honey production, and have prepared your hives for successfu overwintering. I just wanted to take this opportunity to aert/caution you about possibiity of high mite popuations in the coonies this year due to an unusuay ong bee season. As you a are aware we had a ong bee season this year (at east in the Wiamette Vaey) as a resut of warm weather that prevaied for amost more than 7 months. Longer brood cyce (abundance of arvae) usuay resuts in higher mite popuations, as the mites get a greater opportunity to breed and increase their popuations reative to bees. Most of you might agree that this year was a year with ongest brood cyce seen in the recent past (I have been in Oregon ony for the past 6.5 years, so can t go beyond that number). It has been reported that mite popuations coud increase exponentiay (up to about 50-fod increase) in years when the brood is present in coonies amost round the year (Martin 1998). The economic threshod to treat Varroa mites in genera for temperate areas is considered to be about 3% or higher in Fa, but as economic threshod depends on severa factors it is not idea to aways rey on this magic number. In Oregon during the past six years we have documented mite intensities ranging between 3 % and 5% in Fa (August samping). We observed significanty higher mite intensities this year (2015). The average mite intensity observed in backyard beekeeper coonies was 7%, whereas average mite intensity documented in commercia beekeeper coonies was about 3%. In few backyard beekeeper coonies we observed mite intensities as high as 32%, which is aarming. If you treated your coonies for Varroa on time during Juy or August then probaby you may have your mite popuations under contro, but sti I urge you to monitor mites one more time before overwintering to make sure that the treatments that you used were effective and your current mite popuations are not at damaging eves. If your mite eves are sti high then pease consider using an oxaic acid treatment if feasibe when there is no brood (possiby during November). If you did not use any Varroa mite treatments yet, then pease assess the mite popuations using acoho wash or powdered sugar method as soon as possibe and consider treating your hives with oxaic acid when there is no brood in the coonies. Oxaic acid was recenty approved by EPA and is avaiabe from the bee suppier Brushy Mountain Bee Farm ( com/?gcid=clzrqirb98ccfuiefgods-gj6w). Foowing are some consequences of inadequate or no Varroa mite contro this fa: a) Bee popuation may decine significanty or the coonies might totay coapse. b) Coonies that survive the winter wi start upcoming year/season with higher mite oads and hence coud reach damaging eves soon by ate spring or summer. c) High mite infested coonies may contribute to higher mite drifting via robbing bees to other beekeeper coonies and your existing heathy coonies, as your mite Continued on page 5

2 MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT The honey harvest is over, mite treatments are getting wrapped up, the bees are stuffing their hives with syrup and getting fat for the winter. Time to sow down a bit and start thinking about what I need to be doing over the next few months. I wi aso be getting ready for conference, registering, making hote reservations and paying my OSBA dues. I wi aso be renewing my membership in the American Beekeeping Federation, the organization that watches out for beekeepers at a nationa eve. I fee the nationa visibiity is important and having them watch out for a beekeepers at the nationa eve is something we can not afford to take ighty. As a member of the OSBA I woud encourage you to aso become a member of the AFB. Likewise if you know beekeepers that are not members of the Oregon State Beekeepers Association you shoud be encouraging them to join. In addition to the obvious benefits ike The Bee Line, raising money for research, the State Fair and the fa conference there are the ess visibe benefits ike testifying before the egisature on four different bis just this year that coud or wi have an impact on beekeeping. Severa oca municipaities had been considering beekeeping ordinances that through the OSBA members testimony were either made much ess restrictive or voted down competey because of that testimony. I woud aso ike to mention that at the conference this year we are going to make an effort to recognize the oca branches that donate to research. The OSBA matches funds up to $500 for donations made by any of the oca cubs/branches to the OSU honey bee research ab. This year we are going recognize those donations during the research uncheon at the conference. A representative from your oca cub can come to the uncheon and present the funds there, or if this won t work for your cub you can send a check to the OSBA treasurer and we wi recognize your donation at uncheon. Take care, keep your bees fat and I hope you at the convention this year. Pau 2

3 OREGON STATE BEEKEEPERS ASSOCIATION BOARD MEETING MINUTES Canby, Oregon v September 12, 2015 Attendees: Bi Cathera, Jeff Cark, Jan Lohman, Jordan Dimock, Harry Vanderpoo, Joe Maresh, Jason Rowan, Kenny Wiiams, Jeff Miigan, Pau Andersen, Bunny Cramer-Carter, Pau Maresh and Dick Tempe. President Pau Andersen caed the meeting to order at 4:06 pm. Jordan Dimock made a motion to accept the minutes as printed in The Bee Line. The motion was seconded and passed. Reports Treasurer Oregon State Beekeepers received a $ donation from a famiy in Sun River, who received hep by an Oregon State Beekeeper. The homeowners were thankfu for the hep and donated to OSBA Research. Jeff Miigan wanted to thank Rosanna Mattingy because of her very accurate and thorough database, it has been a hep in estabishing the membership database in QuickBooks. The Accounting firm has been hepfu and by the end of the year 2015 a data wi be in the system Tax Return Our return is amost compete. It is due on the 15th of September. There are a coupe more expenditures to check. The postcard eve reporting was retracted because our pass through was $50, during If the grant goes through, then we wi drop back to the postcard reporting eve for QuickBooks Update QuickBooks must be updated every three years in order to receive support. Oregon State Beekeepers QuickBooks is due for the upgrade OSBA Conference The tota intake for the conference was $30,000.00, of which $3, was membership renewas. The expenses were $22, The tota amount ceared for the 2014 Conference was $4, This doesn t incude additiona grant money. The tota registration for the 2014 Conference was 226. There were 96 membership renewas. $16, was the tota received for the Auctions and the raffe quit OSBA Conference Thus far there are 34 peope registered for Conference which incudes four vendors. The method of registration for these attendees is 43% on the OSBA Website with 57% being maied in. The officia OSBA PayPa account has been set up. Being 3 October 2015 registered as a Nonprofit gives OSBA a discount from PayPa. It is tied to our tax ID# and OSBA is better protected for fraud and refunds. 4-H Awards Oregon State Beekeepers has received requests for rewards for a tota of four students. The tota to be paid is $ The motion was made to pay these requests for this year and make a poicy for future years. Jan Lohman made the motion and Pau Andersen seconded it. The motion passed. State Fair Booth The fina expenses for the state fair booth were $2, The event committee was abe to pick up some sponsorship from Brushy Mountain Bee Farm in the amount of $1, The sponsorship hasn t been paid yet but wi go directy back to OSBA. The motion was made to pay the Fair Booth Expenses by Jordan Dimock and seconded by Pau Maresh. Motion passed. OSBA Account Baances The current OSBA Checking baance is $25, The Savings baance is $28,925.42, of which $15, is the Sient Auction and Ora Auction earnings from the 2014 Conference and wi be donated to OSU at the 2015 Conference. Currenty, there are four OSBA credit cards. This number wi be reduced and changed after the new Board is voted in this November. There is a zero baance on a the cards with the exception on one which pays the monthy storage fees and one that paid the cub insurance and website fees. The new IRS ruing makes it mandatory that a business credit cards are tied to persona socia security numbers. Another new IRS aw is, OSBA has to spend at east 30% of tota income on the OSBA Mission and Purpose. We must document our education effort; the Regiona Cubs shoud track their hours and efforts toward this purpose. Grants Jan Lohman reported on a new USDA Speciaty Crop Bock Grant Program. This is a Muti State Program. This grant was announced on September 4, 2015, and the USDA is seeking appications for this new opportunity. The ink beow is for the press reease: Oregon has not yet decided if we wi become a host state for this program. If anyone fees strongy that Oregon shoud become a host state, then pease share feedback indicating this and why. Send emais to: Shannon Brubaker, Speciaty

4 Crop Bock Grant Program Manager, Oregon Department of Agricuture. Emai address: 2015 Conference Reminder The 2015 Oregon State Beekeepers Conference wi be November 6 8, 2015, at Oregon Garden in Siverton, OR. Budget 2015 The 2015 Budget was passed by an emai vote of the board in ate Juy. President Pau Andersen introduced a few potentia year end expenses. 1. Trave for Dewey Caron. OSBA wi reimburse Dewey up to $1, for fue and mieage. Because of the New IRS reporting rues OSBA wi ask Dewey to turn in receipts and mieage ogs. 2. American Beekeeping Federation. It is in the Oregon State Beekeepers constitution that OSBA be a member of the ABF. It was uncear which eve we are. Jan Lohman wi doube check and communicate the appropriate doar eve to pay. 3. In the past OSBA paid $ to the Oregon Business Counci. It was decided to not continue this payment as the board did not know the benefits it provided us. 4. Honey Bee Heath Coaition. The HBHC has pubished a comprehensive document on Varroa Mites. It is free and avaiabe to anyone on their website. They have aso worked hard on Tech Team funding and are working on the Poinator Pantings on Pubic Lands. We propose a $ membership payment fee to the HBHC. 5. Ag. in the Cassroom and the Summer Ag. Institute. The past donations have been $ for each project. We have aways donated but have never received feedback as to the resuts of these programs. Jeff Cark vounteered to do more research on these two items and report back. If the board receives good reviews then we wi continue the donations. Joe Maresh made a motion to accept these amendments to the 2015 Budget. Jan Lohman seconded and the motion passed. Oregon Legisative Activities HB 3362 Passed. Estabishes poinator heath outreach and education pan. HB 3361 Died in Committee. Appropriates moneys from Genera Fund to Higher Education Coordinating Commission for OSU Extension Service activities reating 4 to poinator heath. HB 2653 Passed. Reating to ocation of apiaries. Requires Oregon State University Extension Service, in consutation with State Department of Agricuture and beekeeping organizations, to estabish best practices for beekeeping within residentia areas. New Business Lifetime Memberships The OSBA Board has identified two peope to be awarded for Lifetime Memberships. These awards wi be announced at the 2015 Conference in Siverton. OSBA Nomination Sate for 2016 Officers President: Harry Vanderpoo Vice President: Jason Rowan Secretary: Bunny Cramer-Carter Treasurer: Jeff Miigan Regiona Representatives North Coast: Terry Fuan South Coast: Mureen Waker Coumbia Basin: Bi Edwards Eastern Oregon: Jordan Dimock Portand Metro: Tom Cinquini Southern Oregon: Sarah Red-Laird North Wiamette Vaey: Steve Coffman South Wiamette Vaey: To be announced. Endowment Report This is a report for the foowing Endowments: Northwest Apicuture Fund for Honey Bee Research, Extension and Education. This fund acts as a ong term investment in the apicuture program at Oregon State University. Current principa is $82,610. Current expendabe interest is $2, The Herman A Scuen Feowship Fund. The purpose of this fund is to support a graduate student at OSU who is pursuing a path toward a career in apicuture. Current principa is $40, Current expendabe interest is $21, OSU Apicuture Endowment. This fund is different from the Northwest Apicuture Fund because this fund aows for the expenditure on any other uses most simiar to origina intent. Current principa is $63, Current expendabe interest is $104,

5 October 2015 Kenny Wiiams is the current Chair for the Northwest Apicuture Fund. The three OSBA members are Kenny Wiiams, Jason Rowan and George Hansen. Kenny Wiiams is retiring and asked to step down as Chair. President Pau Andersen appointed Jason Rowan to the Chair of Northwest Apicuture Fund. Regiona Cubs Wishing to Donate at the OSBA Conference Any of the regiona cubs that wish to donate to the OSBA Research Fund and have their funds matched up to $ by OSBA shoud make their checks out to: Oregon State Beekeepers Association. The memo ine shoud read: Research Fund. The donations can be presented to OSBA at the Saturday Benefit uncheon or anytime during conference. Regiona cubs may aso mai their donation any time before conference to: Jeff Miigan, P.O. Box 20548, Keizer, OR The next Oregon State Beekeepers Board Meeting wi be hed on November 6, The motion was made to adjourn. The motion was passed and the meeting ended at 6:56 pm. Varroa Continued from page 1 Respectfuy submitted, Bunny Cramer-Carter infested dead coonies may be robbed by other strong coonies and aid in greater mite dispersa. Aso, pease continue feeding protein to your coonies if poen stores are not adequate in the coonies. Protein feeding not ony heps with brood rearing, but aso heps boost the immune system of bees. We have observed coonies to consume protein unti October 25 in the Wiamette Vaey and few other ocations in Oregon when the weather is sti OK (temperatures around 55 to 60 F). Foowing is a question reevant to Varroa mite bioogy that an Oregon beekeeper asked me few months ago: Question: How many days is the femae Varroa mite outside of the capped brood before it re-enters another ce for reproduction? Do the young femae mites that emerge aong with the new bees aso take the same amount of time to re-enter another arva ce for reproduction? Answer: The time a femae Varroa takes to re-enter (reinfest) a new ce depends on the avaiabiity of oder arva (ready to be capped) to enter, and aso on the number of bees in the hive at that point of time. One study showed that on average femae mites take about 4 to 6 days to reinfest new arva ces. In a ab study, femae mites that were artificiay reintroduced into new ces with appropriate aged arvae (ready to be capped) immediatey after emergence from a ce were abe to reproduce successfuy without any probems. Young femae mites that emerge aong with the foundress mite (parent mite) need time to achieve fu maturity and hence may take a itte more time to enter a ce for reproduction than the parent mite. Research pertaining to these new young mites is scarce, hence providing an average time for infestation is difficut. Regards, REMINDERS Your bee sampes are wecome in the OSU Bee Lab at the OSBA fa conference! The Honey Bee Heath Coaition guide for beekeepers making decisions about Varroa contro is at: honeybeeheathcoaition.org/varroa/. The University of Caifornia Cooperative Extension newsetter (May/June 2015) review of options for Varroa mite management is at: newetters/mayjune% pdf. Top Quaity Itaian Queens Now Accepting 2015 Orders 50 or more Queens $ Shipping Our Invovement with Bee Informed Tech Team ensures queens are top quaity & performs we in a regions. Ramesh Sagii Oregon State University Shannon & Genda Wooten Deschutes Rd Pao Cedro Ca Te (530)

6 h OSBA Fa Conference 2015 g Oregon State Beekeepers Association November 6 8, 2015 Oregon Garden Resort 895 W Main Street Siverton, Oregon Individua and Famiy Preregistration Name: Date: Company: Address: City: State: Zip: Contact Phone: emai: Additiona Famiy Members Names: Event Preregistration Cost Friday Night Hospitaity Room Fu Conference Saturday Conference Ony Sunday Conference Ony Individua - $150 Famiy - $180 Individua - $90 Famiy - $110 Individua - $90 Famiy - $110 Saturday Benefit Luncheon $28 per Person Number Attending: $ Saturday Banquet $50 per Person Number Attending: $ Compimentary $ $ $ Sunday Cascadia Queen Breeders Luncheon $28 per Person Number Attending: $ Research Donation * $ Annua OSBA Dues $40 per Person Number: $ Tota Cost $ Pease make check payabe to OSBA and mai with this competed registration form, postmarked no ater than October 24, to: Jeff Miigan, P.O. Box 20548, Keizer OR To register onine, visit: Attendees quaify for preregistration rate if appication form (with registration fee) is postmarked on or before October 24. Late or on- site registration rates are: One Day Individua $110.00, One Day Famiy $130.00; Fu Conference Individua $190.00, Fu Conference Famiy $ Note: Hote reservations are not incuded in these costs. Specia rates are avaiabe at the Oregon Garden Resort: (503) Ext 0 * The Oregon State Beekeepers Association is a 501(c)(3) charitabe organization. Your donation is tax deductibe as aowed by aw. Pease consut your accountant for detais. 6

7 October :00 pm Registration Friday, November 6 7:00 pm Kick-Off Wine and Cheese Socia with 8:00 pm Party to Mosty Forecasting Weather... Rufus LaLone, The Weather Café 7:30 am Registration Saturday, November 7 8:00 am Sient Auction Begins 8:15 am Wecome & Announcements Pau Andersen, OSBA President Genera Session 8:30 am Oxaic Acid and Concepts in Mite Management Randy Oiver, ScientificBeekeeping.com 8:30 am Bee Schoo (Concurrent) 3:00 pm Thom Trusewicz, Director 9:15 am Bee Informed Partnership Een Topitzhofer, Oregon State University 10:00 am Break Deadine for Entries for Honey Show 10:15 am 2J Honey Farms Jay Mier, 2J Honey Farms 11:00 am Nationa Honey Board Report George Hansen, Foothis Honey noon OSBA Fa Conference 2015 Oregon Garden v November 6 8, 2015 Luncheon (Preregistration required) Oregon Master Beekeeper Program Caroyn Breece, Oregon State University 1:15 pm Whoesae Honey Considerations Aan Turanski & Juie Wioughby, GoryBee 2:00 pm VanCacar Apiaries, Amity, Oregon Nick VanCacar, VanCacar Apiaries 2:45 pm Break Tentative Conference Agenda 3:00 pm Changes on the Landscape Impacting Honey Bee Forage and Nutrition Pete Berthesen, Pheasants Forever 3:45 pm Swarm Fundamentas Karessa Torgerson 4:00 pm Sient Auction Ends 4:30 OSBA Genera Membership Meeting 5:45 pm 6:00 pm Socia Hour 7:00 pm Banquet (Preregistration required) Dr. Cint Waker, Keynote Benefit Auction to Foow 7:30 am Registration Sunday, November 8 8:15 am Wecome & Announcements Pau Andersen, OSBA President 8:30am Genera Session Wax Is Wax George Hansen, Foothis Honey 9:15 am Beekeeping Mistakes, Lessons Learned Jay Mier, 2J Honey Farms 8:30 am Mead Workshop (Concurrent) 10:00 am Andrew Schwab, Director 10:00 am Break 10:15 am Understanding Bee Bioogy Over the Course of a Season Randy Oiver, ScientificBeekeeping.com 11:00 am Pests, Pathogens and Poor Nutrition: Understanding and Mitigating Dr. Ramesh Sagii, Oregon State University noon To register by mai for the conference, see page 6. Visit orsba.org to register onine, for for additiona conference information, and for conference updates. Luncheon (Preregistration required) Cascadia Queen Breeders Pane of Northwest Queen Producers Jordan Dimock, J & TD Apiaries, Moderator 1:15 pm Package & Queen Production Pat Heitkam, Heitkams Honey Bees 2:00 pm Effects of a Neonicotinoid Insecticide on Honey Bee Heath and Physioogy Stephanie Parreira, Oregon State University 2:45 pm Break Pease note that preregistration is definitey encouraged this year! 3:00 pm Maximizing Honey Production Dr. Cint Waker 3:45 pm Fina Comments Pau Andersen, OSBA President 4:00 pm Adjourn 7

8 Oregon State Beekeepers Association EXECUTIVE BOARD AND REGIONAL ASSOCIATIONS u u u u u u OSBA OFFICERS President: Pau Andersen SW Prospect St, Aoha ; paukandersen@frontier.com Vice President: Harry Vanderpoo 7128 Skyine Rd S, Saem ; shaotman@yahoo.com Secretary: Bunny Cramer-Carter PO Box 779, Stayton ; dbcramer@hotmai.com Treasurer: Jeff Miigan PO Box 20548, Keizer ; miigan50@msn.com Past President: Jan Lohman Coone Jordan Rd, Hermiston ; (ce) jan.ohman55@gmai.com u OSBA REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVES North Coast: Terry Fuan Northfork Rd, Nehaem ; tfuan@nehaemte.net South Coast: Mureen Waker Pisto River Loop Rd, God Beach ; mureen98@gmai.com Coumbia Basin: Bi Edwards 5051 Lost Lake Rd, Hood River Eastern Oregon: Jordan Dimock 2635 Mitche Butte Rd, Nyssa Portand Metro: Tom Cinquini 1172 S Sycamore St, Canby ; tomcinquini@gmai.com Southern Oregon: Sarah Red-Laird PO Box 3257, Ashand ; sarah@beegir.org Updates and resourses avaiabe at: and u u North Wiamette Vaey: Steven Coffman 2540 Greenwood Rd S, Independence South Wiamette Vaey: Jason Rowan Turkey Run Rd, Creswe ; beetanica@q.com OSBA REGIONAL ASSOCIATIONS Cascadia Queen Breeders Meets quartery; contact the secretary for information. Chair: Pau Maresh ; pmaresh@spiretech.com Vice Chair: James Hense Secretary: Ken Anthony kanthony1@comcast.net Treasurer: Tom Chester Centra Oregon Beekeepers Meets 6:00 pm, fourth Tuesday (except December) The Environmenta Center, 16 NW Kansas Ave, Bend Visit Message Board, Centra Oregon Branch. For information and meeting detais, e-mai: contact@cobeekeeping.org Co-President: Aen Enge aenge@bendbroadband.com Co-President: Patricia Moreand oregonpat@gmai.com Website: Coffee Creek Beekeepers Coos County Beekeepers Meets 6:30 pm, third Saturday (except December) Ohsen Baxter Bdg, 631 Ader St, Myrte Point President: John Gardner Vice President: Shigeo Oku Secretary: Bobbie Gardner Treasurer: Jane Oku ; janeoku1958@gmai.com Dougas County Beekeepers Meets 7:00 pm, first Wednesday Third foor, Dougas County Courthouse Contact: dougascountybees@gmai.com Beekeeping Suppies GoryBee carries a wide seection of beekeeping suppies for everyone from the hobbyist beekeeper to the professiona. Shop with us onine or request our FREE cataog today. EQUIPMENT TOOLS CONTAINERS BOOKS GIFTS HONEYSTIX ROYAL JELLY BEE POLLEN PROPOLIS Home of GoryBee Beekeeping GoryBee.com Eugene, Oregon (800)

9 John Day River Beekeepers Meets quartery President: Matt Aen ; Education Coordinator/Secretary: Liz Loveock Kamath Basin Beekeepers Meets 9:00 am, ast Saturday (except Nov/Dec) OSU Extension, 3328 Vandenberg Rd, Kamath Fas President: Pau Davitt Vice President: John Wida Secretary: Judy Oson Treasurer: Ray Ruter Website: Lane County Beekeepers Meets 7:30 pm, third Tuesday, Trinity United Methodist Church, 440 Maxwe Rd, Eugene President: Pam Leavitt ; Vice President: Max Kuhn Secretary: Jodi Wiktorowski Treasurer: Poy Habiston Website: Linn-Benton Beekeepers Meets 6:30 pm, third Wednesday, Corvais Wadorf Schoo, 3855 NE Highway 20, Corvais President: Steve Oda ; Vice President: Everett Kaser ; Secretary: Robert Wiiams ; Treasurer: Suzi Maresh ; Website: Oregon South Coast Beekeepers Meets 6:00 pm, third Tuesday, OSU Extension Office ocated at the Fairgrounds in God Beach President: Jim Sorber Vice President: Mark St. James Secretary: Wayne Berry Treasurer: Barbara Fitts Portand Metro Beekeepers Meets 7:00 pm, second Thursday, Cackamas Community Coege, Cairmont Ha, Room 118, Oregon City President: Joe Maresh ; Vice President: Rex McIntire ; Secretary: Patty Anderson ; 9 October 2015 Treasurer: Barb Derkacht ; Website: portandmetro.org Portand Urban Beekeepers Meets 6:30 pm, first Wednesday, Aberta Abbey, 126 NE Aberta St, Portand For information, e-mai: portandurbanbeekeepers.org President: Bi Cathera Vice President: Syvan Zimmerman Secretary: Janet Shea-Tangeman Treasurer: Keith Giman Website: portandurbanbeekeepers.org Southern Oregon Beekeepers Meets 7:30 pm, first Monday, Southern Oregon (6:30 pm hands-on demo at SOBA hives thru bee season) Res & Ext Ctr, 569 Haney Rd, Centra Point President: John Jacob BEES; Vice President: Ron Padgett ; Secretary: Dana Rose Treasurer: Chery Housden ; Website: southernoregonbeekeepers.org Tiamook County Beekeepers Meets 7:00 pm, second Tuesday (except December) Fresh Cafe, th Street, Bay City President: Bob Aen Vice President: Jim Fanjoy ; Secretary: Jeffrey Ha ; Treasurer: Stan Scotton ; Tuaatin Vaey Beekeepers Meets 6:30 pm, ast Tuesday 225 S First Street, Hisboro Contact: tuaatinvaeybeekeepers@gmai.com President: Jeff Cark Vice President: Bob Faconer Secretary: Jiian Hettinga Co-Treasurers: Barb Faconer & Jerry Maasdam Web: Wiamette Vaey Beekeepers Meets 7:00 pm, fourth Monday, Chemeketa Community Coege, Buiding 34, Room A, Saem President: Richard Farrier ; rfarrierfarms@gmai.com Vice President: Mona Kanner Secretary: Emiy Cross Treasurer: Laura Evans Website:

10 REGIONAL NEWS Regiona Representatives North Coast The Tiamook Beekeepers were peased to have Dan Speers of Bee Rite Apiaries as our guest speaker. Dan has 18 years of experience and is a mentor for the Oregon Master Beekeeper Program. His presentation was on the Varroa destructor mite. It incuded history and infestation eves but the emphasis was on treatment options. Each option was thoroughy evauated with emphasis on the use of oxaic acid. Dan expained in detai the three oxaic acid options: spray, drip, or vaporize. He brought with him many visuas incuding syringes and a battery powered vaporizer. Dan is avaiabe at dspeers2@yahoo.com for presentations to other beekeeper groups. His presentation was highy organized and comes highy recommended! Eections for next year wi be hed at our November meeting which is aso our annua honey tasting event. It is aways amazing how muti-fora honeys from the same genera area can taste so different. A few arge swarms have happened recenty. One was in progress whie one of our beekeepers was driving down the road. It anded on tree next to the road and by time he got back with his box it had formed its iconic shape and was an easy catch. How ucky those bees are to have such a veteran caretaker! Caire Moody South Coast Overwintering was the subject of a fascinating presentation by a coupe who has aways supported their famiy by commercia beekeeping and, iving in Idaho, but visiting the south coast for the summer and attending the three meetings at OSCBA, shared their experiences of deaing with the cod. One winter the hives were covered over by snow and when the famiy members dug through to the hives, they found that the warmth of the bees had meted the snow around the sides of the hives and since it was warm down there under the snow, the bees made extensive tunne systems through the snow and were fying a around down there. The famiy shipped their bees to Caifornia for wintering, but then decided to change to keeping them ocay, indoors. Now they put a the hives into a buiding that is kept at 42 degrees and in tota darkness. The hives aren t cosed up, since the bees won t fy in those conditions and the buiding remains seaed up for the entire time, from October to February. The bees generate so much heat that it is chaenging for the air conditioners to keep the temperature down. The hives are weighted before and after the overwintering and coonies consume an average of ony about 6 8 pounds each of honey during those months. That aone is a huge savings 10 for keeping thousands of coonies aive for those months of dearth, compared with the expense of feeding them through the winter previousy. Cub members were gad to hear that this commercia beekeeper famiy uses essentia ois. It doesn t get rid of the mite probem, they say, but it heps. When we asked how much they add, it was ike about size of an ice cream scoop Then we reaized that they were deaing with barres, buying arge quantities and mixing into arge vats. They are using a mixture of sugar and corn syrup. They are not entirey in favor of the ater. Corn syrup they store, sugar they brood up, they said of the bees, We want new bees going into the winter, they expained. Ideay the doube deep Langs, the 20 frames, wi weigh about 130 pounds. They aso suppement with Honey Bee Heathy as we as the peppermint and other essentia ois. They now aso add a bit of Corox. That reay heps, they say, to prevent the white mummies... the chak brood. Members reacted in surprise, about the Corox, but soon reaized that we are drinking chorine in our water so that must be simiar. The essentia ois the famiy adds in packets. They used make their own, but now get them from a company in Montana. Cara Fetcher pointed out that when oi is added to the syrup it foats, so that when the syrup gets ow, then there can be such a concentration of the oi that it can have a toxic effect. A visiting beekeeper pointed out that honey is a natura emusifier for the ois, so mix we. The coupe passed around a jar of anise honey that was about forty years od and had been gifted to them. Members each used a disposabe spoon to sampe the dark rich icorice favor. Cara, as has been her custom for years, passed around straws of honey, this time one of the few dark ones that she favors, Coriander. It won many praises aso. Mureen Waker Regiona Associations Cascadia Queen Breeders This year at the OSBA conference the CQB wi be having a few Lunch tabes with Queen Breeders present to hep open communications between queen breeders and the bee keeper community. We are asking this group to submit questions that wi be asked of the queen breeders during the uncheon to hep transfer information to others at the tabe. If you have a question for the breeder, pease send it to Pau Maresh using his emai address pmaresh@spiretech.com. Ken Anthony John Day River Beekeepers The John Day River Beekeepers booth at the Grant County Fair was a big success. The observation hive generated a ot of interest and excitement. Specia thanks to Sarah Russ and Ron Phiips for staffing the tabe on Friday and Saturday. We had a fied day August 29 to tak about fa mite treatment, combining weak hives, and winter prep. There were ony 4

11 peope present so everybody got a ot of hands on time. The big news in the region has been the Canyon Creek Fire. A tota of 39 homes were ost. Severa beekeepers in the area had to move bees but to my knowedge, no managed hives were ost. Not the case with fera coonies. One afternoon I got a phone ca from a woman in the Seneca area who was experiencing strange bee behavior. She was not a beekeeper hersef, and did not know of any in her region. What she described was every afternoon honeybees woud custer, severa meon sized custers, on the posts of her front porch. She said it had been very smokey. The bees were docie and not a bother, but they woud be gone in the morning and back again in the afternoon. Sounds to me ike the bees got the Sheriff s evacuation notice, I tod her. She was mosty curious and concerned for the bees. I tod her I coud come out, or send another beekeeper out, except a the roads en route were cosed due to fire activity. Fortunatey, the fires seem to be subsiding thanks to a bit of rain (and snow in the high country). Rabbitbrush is booming and there is penty of poen avaiabe but the nectar fow seems to be over and done and the bees are getting robby. Matt Aen Kamath Basin Beekeepers Heo from the Kamath Beekeepers! Fa is upon us we thought 3 days of night time temps in the 20s then Woops! Back into the nineties. The 26 degree night was ALSEA HIVE SCALE REMOTELY MONITOR HONEY RESERVES REDUCE Coony Losses ~ INCREASE Honey Harvest NEW! Asea Scae Introductory Offer: System Recorder: $168/Apiary + Scae: $50/Hive (up to 20 hives) On Sae in October at the WAS Conference info@bee-certain.com Newport Monitor WiFi EASY TO USE EASY TO INSTALL Compatibe with Newport Temperature/Humidity monitors See website for detais E. Asea Hwy., Tidewater, Oregon October 2015 enough to do in most of the ornamenta fowering pants (zinnias, cosmos, etc.) except for avender, borage, mints, hoyhock and Longwood bue spirea (hardier than I suspected!). The ate booming ornamenta asters were undaunted by the freeze but the sunfowers and other asteraceae boomed 1½ months eary and have aready petered out. Trusty ate fowering rubber rabbitbrush and grey rabbitbrush (the yeow fowering brush seen aong hwy 97 in centra Oregon) are strongy fowering and the bees are packing in the poen. Now is when centra Oregon beekeepers are puing off honey supers and treating for mites. This year my mite counts are ow, but not ow enough to ignore. So out with the treatment of choice. This year we are considering treating again in the broodess period from November through February with the newy approved oxaic acid vaporizer as you do not have to open the hive to affectivey treat, so the cod weather doesn t matter. As a itte aside... My daughter keeps three hives in Eugene and has approximatey 5 apiaries in cose proximity on her 2 bock-ong street. She is the ony one that treats for mites (which she routiney does 2 times a year after a bad experience with Parasitic Mite Syndrome). And she has ten fod the mite oad that we do in rura centra Oregon. Mite it bee (puns intended) that those bee havers that do not treat their hives may be the reason beekeepers have not been abe to competey contro this probem.... Interesting food for thought. Judy Oson Portand Metro Beekeepers Portand Metro Beekeepers hed our September meeting on Thursday, September 10th. Cackamas Community Coege and the Oregon State Od So Apiaries Your source for Oregon bred queens and nucs. Our queens are doube vetted and matured onger for higher confidence and greater acceptance rates. Seecting for productive, mitetoerant queens since 2000 Extension service hed a Sma Farm Schoo on Saturday, September 12th at CCC. Severa of our cub members ed two sessions. The first session was on Beginning Beekeeping and the second was a more advanced session for Bee Economics and products of hives. It was very successfu and we attended. It was a great way for our cub to share Beekeeping with the community. Thanks to Kenda Smucker, Joe Maresh, Mark Manning,

12 Rex McIntire, and Gary Barnard! Our featured speaker this month was George Hansen of Foothis Honey in Coton, Oregon. He ed a discussion on winter preparation for our hives. The speaker for October wi be the beekeepers beekeeper Harry Vanderpoo. Don t miss this informative and entertaining speaker and get updated on the current state of beekeeping. We wi hod a cande making cass in October at Kerry Haskins honey house. There are sti a coupe of spots avaiabe and you may sign up at our next membership meeting. Our next membership meeting wi be hed on October 8th at 7:00. For more information about our meetings and events pease visit our website at portandmetro.org. Patty Anderson Portand Urban Beekeepers Our September 2nd meeting was focused on practica advice from Dewey Caron on how to use this fa season to prepare our hives to overwinter. Additionay, Bi Cathera showed off the deightfu video he composed for the OSBA State Fair booth, which put a spotight various beekeepers in the area. Gen Andresen, who Bi Cathera refers to as our Beekeeper extraordinaire and master gardener was back this month showing off his new inventive way to cean od diseased frames. He paces his frames on his compost pie, where sodier fy arvae who rapidy eat through the wax. Sodier fies are attracted to anything high in organic matter. Gen excaimed, bring me your feces, your tired frames! Portand Urban woud ike to thank our friends at Bee Aies. Bee Aies provided us with a swarm hotine. The hotine was a success, with about 100 PUB members responding to over 300 cas. We re getting excited for some events coming up this fa and winter: At our November meeting, we be hosting a Show & Te where members and guests are encouraged to show off their products and share recipes. We wi invite oca companies to share what they are doing, and peope can bring items to se. Get your bee-reated art projects ready to show at PUB s December Photo and Art contest, compete with prizes. We be having a potuck and honey tasting to compement the art. For more information about Portand Urban Beekeepers or to become a member, check out our new website at PortandUrbanBeekeepers.org! Courtney Todd Campbe Tuaatin Vaey Beekeepers The Tuaatin Vaey Beekeepers Association (TVBA) meets monthy on the ast Tuesdays in downtown Hisboro. Monthy meetings incude socia and questions time from 6 to 6:30 pm, a 30 to 40 minute expert presentation on a beekeeping topic of vaue to cub members, foowed by a short business meeting and time to ask questions. Meetings take pace at 225 S. First Ave. (at Washington) in Hisboro. Free parking is avaiabe in the pubic garage above the first foor meeting rooms. We had fun staffing a day of shifts at the OSBA booth at the State Fair and are happy to share information about bees and beekeeping wherever there is an invitation ocay. We are deveoping a schoarship for cub members to participate in the state Master Bee Keeping program, and are underwriting some members attendance to this year s annua state conference. Our October meeting wi be on Oct 27 - meeting activity is presentation and conversation about honey judging and hive products. Pease join us! Tuaatin Vaey offers an active FaceBook page and oca swarmcatcher ist, and an annua Bee Schoo in Apri. Benefits of membership incude meeting and networking with a great group of active beekeepers, our monthy newsetter, monthy educationa and socia meetings, participation in an annua spring Nuc buy, a Bee Day in Juy, and access to the cub s honey extraction faciity. Membership dues are $20 per househod per year. Cheers. Debby Garman KEEPING BEES IN OCTOBER Harry Vanderpoo October is a very critica month for honeybees. Consoidation and profiing of the brood nest for winter shoud be mainy compete. As the month progresses, foraging opportunities are few and far inbetween. Did the beekeeper do their job earier on in the year with the assessment of stores? If not, drastic measures are in order that may or may not work to insure winter surviva. The ast syrup feedings in eary October is the best time to incude Fumigian for Nosema contro. 12

13 October 2015 When returning to hives to pu miticide strips, beekeepers can mark hives with bright survey ribbon that fee ight and give them a few more shots of syrup if weather permits. Feeding syrup too ate in the season when temperatures are beow 40 o F can resut in fermented honey in the feeders and frames. Dysentery often foows. Queeness hives can be combined or have nuceus hives instaed. But specia care must be taken to maintain the tight, consoidated brood nest and area above with stores. Late season samping for mite eves, post treatment, give very good information on the efficacy of treatments used. Many beekeepers ike to perform an oxaic acid dribbe, or a fa cean-up ater on in the year when the brood is at its owest eve. Samping in October can hep in the decision making of such measures. Mouse guards instaed in hive entrances, are very cheap insurance for your very vauabe comb. They are aso a big part of an annua IPM for varroa contro. What? Mouse guards as a method of varroa contro? Mice that winter in honey bee hives often deface severa frames of comb as they feed and make their nest. Such frames wi be reconstructed by the bees in the coming year with very arge areas of drone comb that wi serve as varroa generators. Don t et it happen! Whie insuation of hives is not necessary in Oregon, many beekeepers insta covers of various materias over the entire paet of hives in order to shed rain and snow. This reay heps with moisture contro as we as heps preserve hive materias. Once you have done a that you can do for your bees, how about doing something for the beekeeper? Sign up for the Oregon State beekeepers Association Fa Conference. Do it now! A ot of very vauabe information wi be presented there that you just cannot afford to miss! 150TH OREGON STATE FAIR & 2015 ANNUAL OSBA CONFERENCE HONEY SHOWS Dewey M. Caron and Trevor Riches The 2015 State Fair Bee Booth was crowed into haf the space that we had ast year. Over 100 vounteers were on hand to interact and tak about bees with the fair goers, some doing more than one shift. A new highight was a HIVideo produced by Todd and Trevor with expert editing by Bi Cathera. Seven bee Associations each vounteered to cover a day of the 11 day fair. The orsba.org website has some photos and a BIG THANK YOU to the vounteers. THANKS TO ALL WHO VOLUNTEERED. CONGRATULATIONS to the winners of the State Fair Honey Competition. Rosette winners were Aiza Stapeton, Saem, of the youth Division (Extracted honey), Shey Gowe for Extracted honey (a 2 bue ribbon winner), Mark Minzaff, 1st for beeswax bock, Judy Scher (Lane Co) for her chunk speciaty honey entry (one of her two bues), Rob Deenback for extracting frame, Esme Wei and Tyer Lazz for 1st pace photos and for 1st in youth division photo Zirk Wei. Steve Coffman and Ciera Wison were aso bue ribbon winners. There were 45 tota entries, more than doube the previous year. Fu isting on orsba.org A JUDGING WORKSHOP, hed in conjunction with the fair, by Dewey & Trevor, had 10 participants. Trevor aso hed a fair stewardship workshop during intake the weekend before the fair opened. There wi be another OR honey show at the Annua Conference, being hed this year at the Oregon Gardens. Entries are due by Saturday 10 AM at the site, no preregistration is required. Judging wi be of the same categories and judging standards as used at State Fair you can find copy at: oregonstatefair.org/wp-content/upoads/2015/06/2015- Honey-Products-of-the-Hive.pdf There wi incude another judging workshop opportunity for judges with instruction by Dewey. Trevor Riches, reconstructed knees permitting, wi again be show steward. The Weather Café by Rufus Rufus accaimed & uniquey informative ong-range forecasts go we with your morning beverage every Monday & Friday. Grab a cup and become a proud patron of The Weather Café. Cick on The WxCafé, top right corner of the home page. Pan ahead confidenty... oh, by the way, it s FREE! 13

14 The Oregon Honey Festiva, Oct 17th at the Ashand Springs Hote in Ashand wi have a great honey tasting opportunity and OR beekeepers are invited to send a jar of their honey for the tasting. WWW. OregonHoneyFestiva.com Look for a future honey competition at this event. UPCOMING EVENTS October 1 3: Western Apicutura Society Annua Conference. Bouder, Coorado. Information: October 17: Second annua Oregon Honey Festiva, Ashand. (See ad, page 15.) November 6 8: OSBA Fa Conference 2015, Oregon Garden, Siverton, Oregon. Tentative Agenda, page 7; Registration, page 6 and (which incudes additiona information and updates). Consider registering eary to not ony save on cost but aso hep conference panners! November 17 19: Caifornia State Beekeepers Association Annua Convention. Hiton Sacramento Arden West., Sacramento, Caifornia. Information: www. caiforniastatebeekeepers.com/events.htm. January 5 9, 2016: American Beekeeping Federation Conference & Tradeshow. Sawgrass Marriott Gof Resort & Spa, Ponte Vedra Beach (Jacksonvie) Forida. Information: January 5 9, 2016: American Honey Producers Annua Convention & Trade Show, Abuquerque Embassy Suites, Abuquerque, New Mexico. Information: Honey and Crop Poination George and Susan Hansen Oswat Rd Coton, Oregon (503) Everything for the Beekeeper Ca our branch offices: Jeff in Fresno or John in Chico for fast courteous service. Free Fu Coor Cataog PO Box South Goden State Bvd. Fresno, CA Phone (559) Fax (559) To Free ON GETTING TO THAT (OSBA) CONFERENCE For those arriving for the conference who ve not yet been to Oregon Garden and/or who may choose to register on site, the first opportunity is Friday at the Oregon Garden, when activities and registration wi be in the Orchid Room ocated in the Lorene Sais Higgins Buiding (noted as 1 on the 15 C Vaey Court Chico,CA Phone (530) Fax (530) To Free Website: map). If panning to arrive on Saturday or Sunday, check in/registration wi be in the J. Frank Schmidt Paviion Jr. (noted as 3 ). The 2 on the map is the Natura Resources Education Center, where the Bee Schoo and the Mead Workshop are schedued for Saturday and Sunday, respectivey. A fu version of the map is avaiabe onine at: www. mappery.com/map-of/ Oregon-Garden-Map. 14

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