News & Events: Information on Meetings and other News & Events

September 12, 2019

The attached document is the PowerPoint presentation by Jim Rash and Shelly Felder about beekeeping in North Carolina from the September ACBA regular meeting.

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North Carolina Animal Damage Control Manual

Open the below document that was published in the North Carolina Animal Damage Control Manual and includes a good description of the conflicts between bees and bears in North Carolina...enjoy!

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March 4, 2019

Open/read/print the attached document that contains a wealth of information to help local area beekeepers in maintaining healthy hives in 2019.

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August 25, 2017

The NCSBA’s Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/ncbeekeepers) is now being managed by two volunteer editors, Whitney Barnes of the Person County Beekeepers and Christi Henthorn of the Granville County Beekeepers. Chapters are encouraged to designate someone to submit their event information to the editors for posting. Beekeepers can become members of the group page and share ideas and photos. There are some rules and expectations for posting on NCSBA’s Facebook page. Please log on to Facebook and read the information that the editors have posted about the events page as well as the group page. Thank you to Whitney and Christi for keeping the NCSBA connected!

Rick Coor

NCSBA President

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August 25, 2017

Many of us have heard about the Beehive Grant Fund which was approved this year by the NC General Assembly. The North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services’ Agricultural Development and Farmland Preservation Trust Fund officials have asked the NCSBA to forward information concerning the fund and how to submit an application to the members of the NCSBA. Information has been posted at www.ncbeekeepers.org and the North Carolina State Beekeepers Association Facebook page. Interested persons should read this information in its entirety and email any questions to the Born and Bred Program chairman Paul Newbold at beefarmer1349@gmail.com

Rick Coor

NCSBA President

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August 14, 2017

Open the attached - UPDATED - downloadable document that provides a host of resource materials for beekeepers in Ashe County.

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Follow-up Posting from Greg Fariss

Everyone please remember that oxalic acid and glycerin on shop towels is not an approved (legal) method to control Varroa mites in your bee colonies. As far as I know, the formulations you can find here and there online are tested by individuals, often on very few hives – sometimes as few as 1 or 2 during one season. Efforts like this in the past have often resulted in poor/no mite control or dead colonies from overdosing. As we all know, a lot of the stuff you see online is often advanced by people who have little experimental experience and often poor experimental design. Following those formulations makes your bees part of those weak experiments. My suggestion is to wait for controlled studies run by recognizable research folks so you’re sure you can get good mite control and not brood, queen, or colony damage.

Gregory Fariss

Apiary Inspector

NCDA&CS

(336) 671-2883

gregory.fariss@ncagr.gov

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