Contributed by Jerry Rinehart SIBA wishes to thank Dwight Wells for visiting us in March and sharing information on mite management and and ideas on how to populate our area with better bees. Here are some brief talking points from his presentation, but you can find this and much more in the included PDF that is linked…
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SIBA General Meeting
SIBA welcomes Alex Zomchek who will present "Monitoring 20." Thorough and timed monitoring for pests and diseases is critical in our high mortality age.
February 2016 SIBA Meeting Recap
Contributed by J. Morgan www.allmorgan.com It was a large turn-out with about 53 people in attendance. Typical meetings have a mix of new and second, third or forth year beekeepers, so we lead a discussion on building up colonies that made it through the winter and develop a plan for each hive. We suggested ideas,…
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A Basic Lesson in Nosema
Contributed by Susan Shank and J. Morgan The June 2015 SIBA Moores Hill meeting was somewhat of a milestone for our group. As of now, we're capable of testing for nosema, and we not only viewed some real nosema spores under a microscope at the meeting, but we also captured some images and video of the spores…
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