Surry Beekeepers Support Start-up Bee Company
At the monthly meeting of the Surry Beekeepers on Monday, November 14th, the group voted to donate $1,000 for research to a new NC bee-related start-up company called Optera. Read More …
Category: Local Beekeeping
Dr. Kaira Waggoner: A New Pheromone-Based Tool for Beekeeping
Our speaker this evening will be Dr. Kaira Waggoner from UNCG. Our speaker this evening will be Dr. Kaira Waggoner from UNCG. Kaira started a PhD at UNCG in honey bee health in 2011, and has been working with pollinators ever since. She graduated in 2015, completed 5 years as a post-doc at UNCG, and now works as a Research Scientist in UNCG’s Biology Department. During her doctoral studies at UNCG, Wagoner became curious about how bees communicate to perform hygienic behavior. She discovered that elevated levels of certain compounds on sick baby bees serve as a signal to adults. Read More …
SCBA Efforts Featured in NC Beekeepers Quarterly Magazine
Check out this great article about the SCBA bee yard project and grant results. Read More …
Treating Varroa in Bee Yard
What do you do when your bee yard has been varroa bombed? Thermal treatment! Read More …
Field Day Spring 2021: Pictures from May 1st
A few shots from our field day on Saturday, May 1st. Read More …
November 2020 Meeting: Winter Beekeeping
If you missed this month’s meeting, you can still see the program because it was recorded and is being made available. You can watch it on YouTube or here. Read More …
Honeybees and Pesticides – January 13, 2020
January 13, 20207:00 pm – 9:00 pmSurry County Cooperative Extension Office [ map ] Dwight Seal, the Pesticide Division Western Field Team Manager at the NC Dept. of Agriculture & Consumer Services will be joining us to discuss the effects of about Read More …
Bee Yard Planning – November 11, 2019
November 11, 20197:00 pm – 9:00 pmNC Farm Bureau Insurance Office, Downstairs [ map ] Join us as we work out the details of establishing a bee yard where we will raise NC queens. The first year we will be establishing the Read More …
Born & Bred in NC Queen Breeding Bee Yard – October 14, 2019
October 14, 20197:00 pm – 9:00 pmNC Farm Bureau Insurance Office, Downstairs [ map ] Have you ever wished you had access to a good queen without either having to drive a long way to get her or to take your chances Read More …
Q & A Round Table – September 9, 2019
September 9, 20197:00 pm – 9:00 pmNC Farm Bureau Insurance Office, Downstairs [ map ] Do you have questions that you’d like to get answered? Or have you seen things in your hives that you wonder if others are seeing as well? Read More …