[Pollinator] 🐝🐝🐝 September 2018 Newsletter NY Bee Wellness 🐝🐝🐝
Pat
seawaytrailhoney at gmail.com
Fri Sep 21 12:04:35 PDT 2018
Fight the Mite! 🐜
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| September 2018 Newsletter NY Bee Wellness
NY Bee Wellness - an independent grassroots educational 501c3 |
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| Contents:
- Fight the Mite!
- Mandatory Hive Registration
- Long Island Workshop
- First Responder for AFB
- Cold Winter Ahead!
- Bee-L, Informed beekeeping
- Syracuse beekeepers picnic
- NE USDA Colony Report
- Videos, other USDA reports
- Shark Tank at Honey Festival
- Links
- Donate
- Quiz Yourself!
- Weird brood?
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Time to prepare for Winter!
Drone dragging in the Fall |
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| Fight the Mite!We are entering the height of varroa mite season, which peaks by October. Be sure to check your mite levels this month and in October. This is a dynamic period in the hives with changing forage, robbing, absconding, drifting, and reduced brood rearing-leading into winter. While you are opening the brood chamber to get nurse bees for varroa counts, check the condition of the queen and brood, and evidence of disease. Consider combining or consolidating hives. Which hives need the most feeding in October?
Before the nectar flow has ended, be sure to reduce entrances, and in some cases use robbing screens.In some hives increased mite levels may be delayed due the the cold Spring this year, do not be fooled, check again in a few weeks. While varroa resistant queens may be helpful in the control of mites, they do not guarantee low varroa levels!
- Use of oxalic acid as a dribble method
Randy Oliver's Varroa Model(Click on graph to view larger image on Randy Oliver's website)
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Watch for the Fall 2018 NY Bee Wellness Survey!
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| Mandatory Hive Registration in NYS This is a serious issue that will affect all NYS beekeepers. Unfortunately few beekeepers are aware of the undertaking to reinstate mandatory registration (which was repealed in 2010), and that most beekeepers are being kept woefully uninformed and is some instances misinformed.What many would like to see is for the State of New York to provide services for all beekeepers, with no strings attached, and release information about disease info, spraying, and other programs which may affect honey bees such as tick control measures using pesticides-- all info which Albany possesses. There is a website with an online petition, press articles, Q&A page, comments page, and contact info for your representatives.https://www.freenybees.com/
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| Donate to support beekeeper education! (click here) |
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NY Bee Wellness Workshop in Long Island
Dr Jerry Bromenshenk (pictured, left demonstrating ) of Bee Alert Technologies, and the University of Montana, shared his decades of experience and knowledge.
He was the primary speaker and instructor at this year's NY Bee Wellness Workshop at the Bayard Arboretum on Long Island.
He demonstrated Flir, and RFID technologies.
A Thank you to Betterbee, Bayard Arboretum, 3 Bees Apiary, and the Jenny B Project. |
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| First Responder Class for American Foul Brood (AFB)
With funding through USDA APHIS, NYS Agriculture and Markets has a trial program to train small scale beekeepers to ID bee diseases and be a resource for their local club. Joan Mahoney (Long Island NYS Ag & Markets) is the facilitator. NY Bee Wellness provided the training for beekeepers from 3 bee clubs, in Morrisville NY, using the teaching model used in the annual NY Bee Wellness Workshops.
To learn about honey bee disease see:
Diagnostics/NY Bee Wellness |
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Using a Vita Kit in the field to test for AFB
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Instructor Bob Deemer demonstrating sanitary technique for hive inspections.
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| Farmers' Almanac predicts
'teeth-chattering' winter, plenty of snow
Winterization Guide (Backyard Bees) |
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| Discussion on BEE-L ranged from practical to esoteric. It’s harvest time, and advice was requested regarding the proper use of fume boards. The discussion gave painting tips (dark colors to best absorb heat from the sun), adding a PVC elbow to increase air flow, adding a chute to encourage bees to walk away from the hive as opposed to walking up the front and sides, and a compare and contrast of the “cheesy” smelling repellants vs. “almond” smelling varieties. The whole discussion started with the observation that clearer/escape boards can be effective, but are very labor intensive and require multiple trips to the bee yard. Some authors opined that bee blowers are the way to go, and one author shared a home-grown “lifting gizmo” that employs a tackle lift to ease the chore of inserting escape boards.
Oxalic fumigation is gaining popularity as a Varroa d. treatment, and the ProVap 110 has become a popular tool for beekeepers with more than a few hives. One author shared his “user error mishap” with the machine, that resulted in “the device spewing extremely hot gas and liquid OA everywhere.” Fortunately, the author was wearing proper safety gear and incurred no injury. He shared the details of his mishap so others will be aware of the potential hazard, and will be reminded to follow all safety precautions. A lively discussion on oxalic vaporization followed.
Spurred by a query from across the pond, there was a very interesting discussion of bee breeding. “A small-scale commercial beekeeper in West Dorset, UK, has recently taken up instrumental insemination in order to improve his stock. He's surprised to find that about 40% of the drones are sterile! Is this normal/usual, or is it a local problem?” Much was offered regarding drone fertility, collecting drone semen, hybrid vigor (or the lack thereof), the difficulties inherent in bee breeding.
The bee breeding discussion came full circle and ended with Caveat Emptor (buyer beware). Most queen and package producers do their best to deliver a quality product. But when it comes to honey bees, it can be a crap shoot. There can be no guarantee with open mated queens, and there will be variations in packages, even from the same producer in the same shipment! Some packages develop into boomers, some not so much. -Aaron Morris
BEE-L can be followed at Community.LSOFT.com
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| Syracuse beekeepers gather for cook out and hive inspections.
"Hiwire Honeybees of LaFayette sponsored their second annual outdoor informational meeting for Syracuse area beekeepers on Wednesday, at the LaFayette Apple Festival grounds.
The event brings together experienced beekeepers and people new or interested in keeping bees".
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| Northeastern Region 2018 Honey Bee Colonies Report (link)
April 1 Honey Bee Colonies in U.S. Unchanged from a Year Earlier
for Operations with Five or More Colonies |
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| NY Bee Wellness videos
1) Tips on Working Bees Randy Oliver
2) Healthy Bees, Meghan Milbrath (MSU)
3) Nosema & Varroa Mites Randy Oliver
4) The Times They are a Changin', Randy Oliver
5) Mite resistant queen stock , Meghan Milbrath (MSU)
6) Biology of Wintering Bees, Medhat Nasr PhD, Alberta
7)Proactive Beekeeping, Medhat Nasr PhD
8)"What is Killing Our Bees" Medhat Nasr PhD |
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| Crop Insurance Program (ELAP)
Info from Cornell Dyson School of Applied Economics; Apiary Fact SheetAgent locator |
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| Mite wash jars, oxalic, books available for purchase |
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| NY Crop WEATHER Report September 2018 |
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| Great How-to videos from the University of Guelph Honey Bee Research Centre
to provide new and advanced beekeepers with demonstrations by our staff on a variety of topics ranging from how to open a hive to queen rearing. |
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| National Honey Report, with NYS, June 25 2018 |
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| Shark Tank panel member, Daymond John, stopped by the Honey Festival by the Hudson Valley Community of Beekeepers in Wappinger, NY, to talk about the bee hives located at his property and his interest in bees. |
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| USDA to Measure Quarterly Colony Loss and Cost of Pollination through October (link) |
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| * www.pollinator.cals.cornell.edu; Master Beekeeping online course
* COLOSS- International Honeybee Research Association, a good resource, with link to the Bee Book
* Randy Oliver's latest update to his website, http://scientificbeekeeping.com/, click HERE
*OSU recorded Webinars (Ohio State University) *Be sure to check the Bee Health eXtension website, which includes the "Ask an Expert" option.
*Subscribe to Bee-L, a list serve for Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology
* Northeast Regional Climate Center Quarterly reports and MAPS, OUTLOOKS
* Scaffolds Fruit Journal, September 2018, the weekly update on pest management and crop development
***If you have an article, photos, or other info to share, please send to:
newsletter at nybeewellness.org |
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| * University of Montana Master Beekeeping Course, online
Apprentice Course starts November 5
* Northeast Pollinator Partnership- a citizen science project creating a deeper understanding of the value of wild bees
* Northeastern IPM Center link to IPM Insights: Invasive species
* Northern Bee Network - www.northernbeenetwork.org (anyone from any state can sign up and join for free!)
* Varroa resources - https://pollinators.msu.edu/resources/beekeepers/ ,includes the Sugar ROLL technique
* Journey North!- Follow and help plot the the mapped signs of Fall!/ or The National Phenology Program
* Bee Health app- Alberta Agriculture, focuses on honey bee diseases- for SMART PHONES!
* Peter Borst's collection of written articles on various topics
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| Support Beekeeper Education! https://youtu.be/wtt9DhJFsVU
Your support continues the work of NY Bee Wellness, a grassroots, non-membership educational non-profit dedicated to new, beginning, and small scale beekeeping. If you benefit from the info, videos, workshops, surveys, website, or know of someone who does, please DONATE !
Shopping on Amazon? Use this link and Amazon will donate to NY Bee Wellness at no cost to you!
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Donations can also be sent to:
NY Bee Wellness POB 25291 Rochester NY 14625
NY Bee Wellness is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
Donations are tax deductible to the extent permitted by law.
Sincerely,
- Pat Bono, Project Director, NY Bee Wellness
Pat at NYBeeWellness.org |
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| QUIZ YOURSELF!
Take the online NY Bee Wellness honey bee disease quizzes:
- Tracheal Mites Quiz
- Varroa Mites Quiz
- Foul Brood Quiz
- SHB & Chalk Brood Quiz
- Nosema Quiz
All quizzes are self grading and can be used for teaching. Quizzes written by Al Avitabile PhD. |
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| Unusual or dying brood?
- Send a sample of any brood and bees to the Beltsville Bee Lab
- Bees can be checked for mites: scoop up 1/2 cup of bees (~300 bees) and do an alcohol wash
- Toss out old frames or frames with dead brood- have a bonfire (check NYS DEC Rules), Recommended to replace 20% of very old comb with new comb/frames
- Download the Bee Health App to diagnose or the Field Guide to Honey Bees and their Maladies
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| Copyright © 2018 NY Bee Wellness, All rights reserved.
Teaching New York beekeepers how to keep honey bees healthy!
Our mailing address is:
NY Bee WellnessPOB 25291Rochester, NY 14625
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