BCBA's Discussion Forum

Niwot Honey Bee Harvest Festival The Niwot Honey Bee Harvest Festival will be held this Sat, 28 Aug in Niwot. It's a brand new venue this year, and BCBA has accepted the invitation to have a booth there. It's an ideal one for BCBA to promote our association and educate our neighbors about bees beca...

The Bee & Butterfly Habitat Fund along with our friends at the Monarch Joint Venture and Prairie Rivers of Iowa will be hosting a free pollinator habitat webinar on Tuesday, July 13th at 6:00 pm. This will webinar will cover key principles to pollinator habitat establishment and management, opti...

I've posted my spring 2021 beginning beekeeping classes on my website. Get a class under your belt before you get your bees! They'll thank you. https://sites.google.com/view/beehavementoring/classes/beginning-beekeeping-is-not-for-dummies Hope to see you! Cheers, Kristina Williams Beehave LLC, mento...

Well, it's been a while, but we're having a Zoom meeting on Wednesday 17 February! I know this is short notice, but you'll be watching from the comfort of your own home (assuming your pipes haven't burst). We have what I think will be a very special presentation. Tom' s Two Queen Management System ...

For those interested in native bees.
https://extension.oregonstate.edu/mg/li ... event-2021
Cheers,
Kristina

https://us02web.zoom.us/w_p/85297537485/f9e5ebfb-9be2-45b7-9f17-f8b35f61826c.png WAS MINI-CONFERENCE February 24, 2021 7:00-8:30 p.m. (Mountain Standard Time) Zooming Down to the Bee Gut Microbiome Please join us for this month's Zoom webinar generously sponsored by Olivarez Honey Bees! https://mcu...

Nucs with local pickup!
https://highlandbees.com/highland-honey-nucs.htm

Tim Brod
Beekeeper
Highland Bees
Longmont, CO
303 514 9257
highlandbees.com

This year, for obvious reasons, I won't be inviting suppliers to a big meeting where we can all interact. Nevertheless, beekeeping goes on! As I receive announcements of bees for sale, I'll forward them to the list serv and post them here. BCBA does not do a group order of either bees or supplies. I...

Prairie Wind Bee Community, We are excited to be able to offer high quality bees to the Rocky Mountain region once again. Over the next weeks and months, please remember us for your apiary expansion and replacement needs. We strongly believe that we provide a better product at comparable prices to o...

I'm seeing hives in our area that are already too far gone to make it! FYI the thymol Ed mentions is registered as Apiguard and the amitraz is registered as Apivar. Hopguard 3 isn't approved yet for CO and Mann Lake is out of it anyway. Waiting for it to cool off enough for one of the formic acid tr...