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Program Calendar 2008

  • August 2: Bee Removals
  • September 6: Blue Orchard Bees
  • October 4: Queen Rearing

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July Bee Yard Report

Highlights: Sourwood honey production

Every 10 days or so,

  • check supers, move less full peripheral super frames in, and add an additional super if necessary (existing super is over 2/3 full and has some caps)

At end of Sourwood honey flow (after 7/25 - last week),

  • harvest Sourwood supers, bring home, dry, and extract
  • return hives from Mountains at dusk
  • markedly entrance reduce weak hives to prevent robbing
  • check broodnest/queen once (at end of flow)
  • feed wet combs back to bees, and then
  • store dry supers under Paramoth

Blossoming: Sourwood to 7/25; Clover to 7/25; Coreopsis, 7/25 - 10/8

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Beekeeping News

Where have all the bees gone? - News-Leader.com

This spring, Jann Amos opened hive after hive wondering if he would find bees. Since 2005, he has lost 240 colonies. A few died out because of drought or starvation, but most were victims of Colony Collapse Disorder. Known as CCD, the disorder has ...

Honey from the 'hood: A new flow from Pittsburgh's urban neighborhoods - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Christina Neumann owns Apoidea, a small urban apiary. The swank honey these days is harvested from city hives atop buildings in Manhattan's East Village and Chicago's West Side. An 8-ounce jar of New York City Rooftop Honey goes for $15 at the city's ...

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The Forsyth County Agricultural Building
1450 Fairchild Rd.
Winston-Salem, NC 27105