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ISSUE 51: SEPTEMBER 2014

The Buzz by Jenny ‘Ev’ Everett 2

From the Queen's Court by Melanie Kirby 4

ABeeCs & FAQs by Dennis Brown & Phill Remick 6

XYZs: For the Love of Swarms by Stephen J. Repasky 11

37th Annual WAS Conference Schedule & Registration 15

Solicitation for Hive Monitoring Study 18

The Concillience of Honeybee Husbandry by Melanie Kirby 19

Bee Thinking About: BeeingKids.org 23

Introduction to Mead-Making Workshop 24

Walter T. Kelley Reseller Partner Program Brochure 25

Upcoming Events 27

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Kelley Beekeeping • Issue 51, September 2014 2

On behalf of our hard-working employees, I am pleased to announce that the Frandsen Corporation has acquired The Walter T. Kelley Company, LLC and will now be known as Kelley Beekeeping Company. Frandsen Corporation is owned by Dennis Frandsen, who has a tremendous family history similar to our original founder, Walter T. Kelley, with a strong entrepreneurial spirit, vision, and follow-through on how a family-owned company can invest and grow Kelley’s beekeeping business for the long-term. Frandsen has made a strong commitment to our community, our employees, and our company and we will be making significant investments in our facility, products, and equipment to better serve you. Our employees are very excited for this next step in honoring Mr. Kelley’s legacy. We will be creating the "Crown Jewel" in beekeeping supplies! If you would like to read more regarding Frandsen, I invite you to visit http://www.frandsencorporation.com/about/

On Saturday, September 6th, I had the pleasure of attending and speaking at Botanica. I was happy to spread awareness and education to a very interested group on honeybees, our “Angels of Agriculture.” Honeybees are the guardians of humankind, serve as the messenger of natural balance, and are the prime example of virtuous conduct. What more can you ask for in an angel? Botanica is a non-profit organization dedicated to building a 22 acre Waterfront Botanical Garden and Conservatory near downtown Louisville and its Waterfront Park. The Garden will feature the beauty and healing properties of plants and bees while educating and entertaining people of all ages. I look forward to supporting Botanica’s effort and next year’s event. The picture on the right is a frame that I have in my office that was generously provided to me at Botanica. The photographer is Dan Lubbers and I could not be more pleased with how he has captured the essence of this honeybee in its finest form.

Happy Beekeeping!Jenny “Ev” EverettPresidentKelley Beekeeping Company

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There is always a new perspective to take into consideration: the added dimension brings forth a confluence of mystery and intuition. Where will the road lead?…How to navigate the road? …And what approach should be taken? September is a time when many beekeepers are preparing for next season and need to quickly determine what their hives and apiaries need in order to be active and healthy next year.

Though winter is still a few months away and autumn hasn’t even crisped yet, now is the time to get bees and their affairs in order for the dearth months on the horizon. Depending on whether you are on the East coast, West coast, Northern or Southern tiers or somewhere in between, landscape, weather, and environment are the leading factors when it comes to how a hive manifests and performs. A steward’s management is directly related to those factors and then some.

In my neck of the woods, we are excited to be harvesting our alpine honeys while anticipating a decent late summer/early fall pollen rush which will help to fatten up the bees for overwintering during the dearth. We can still smell the nectar in the air, though the nights are beginning to cool down.

I am wondering if the bear will return to try to fatten up on our bees…but in his absence, we have had a neighboring horse come up to the honey house doors—licking sweet honey remnants off the lids in the driveway. This horse is so interesting—it has one brown eye and one light blue eye…which I’ve seen on dogs but never on a horse until this one. He has a sable companion who hasn’t been tempted to trot over to investigate the sticky lids, but it may be a matter of time…as the last of the summer thrills wraps over the landscape and settles into a comforting autumnal transition of colors.

From the Queen’s Courtby Melanie Kirby

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And while I am anticipating some nice fall colors in our area, I am also already eager for next year’s beekeeping. We will have several planning sessions to discuss our hopeful 2015 spring and summer goals and to determine what we can be doing now for our bees to reach those goals. My partner quite often tells folks that first and foremost; we have to prove ourselves each and every season to our bees…the validation of which is they overwinter successfully. It is a process that is most humbling, as we recognize just what our limitations are.

But, our limitations are minimized in that we reach out to nurturing mentors and supporters—of which Kelley Beekeeping is one. Their recent acquisition by Frandsen Corporation will only ensure the continued gracious attitude of their staff and the quality of their products and offered services. It is nice to know that there are additional supporters for bees and their keepers. For together as a team- as an active participant in the Kelley Nation, can we better support each other and our beloved bees.

See you Summer!Yours in Beekeeping—Melanie Kirby

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Melanie has been keeping bees professionally for 17 years. She breeds survivor stock queenbees in the southern Rocky Mountains of northern New Mexico and promotes living laboratory applied research while savoring and sharing enchanted bee products. Email: [email protected].

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The Walter T. Kelley Company, one of the oldest and largest suppliers of beekeeping equipment in the United States, is working with local humanitarian organization WaterStep to expand urban beekeeping in the city of Louisville. As part of an initiative to increase the bee population and increase urban beekeeping, the company has donated five urban hives and 50,000 bees, which will be housed on the roof of WaterStep’s headquarters, in downtown Louisville.

In addition to the donation of the bees and hives, the Walter T. Kelley Company is also directly supporting WaterStep’s efforts by donating a portion of the proceeds from all urban hives sold to the organization. The establishment of the urban beekeeping hub at WaterStep is just the beginning of what is expected to be a growing introduction of bees into the city and region. The Walter T. Kelley Company plans to eventually develop urban beekeeping classes and academic research opportunities as part of this initiative.

WaterStep develops tools, technology, and training programs that equip people to provide sustainable solutions to the water problems in their own communities. Both the Walter T. Kelley Company and WaterStep have a vested interest in protecting the most vital of all resources (water and food) against the threat of contamination.

“Beekeeping is vital to the health of our nation’s agricultural system. Without more beekeepers, our food supply could be under significant risk of loss with 1 out of every 3 bites of food we consume being due to the work of honeybees,” says Jenny Everett, CEO and President of Walter T. Kelley. “By entering into this partnership, both Walter T. Kelly and WaterStep are showing a commitment to improve not only the environment, but also the lives of people around the world.”


A•Bee•CsBeginning Beekeepingby Dennis Brown

I frequently get asked, “Can anyone become a beekeeper?” and my answers always remains the same. No, not just anyone can become a beekeeper. Anyone can become a “Keeper of Bees,” but there is a huge difference between the two terms.

A keeper of bees is someone who has at least one colony of bees and who typically doesn’t have much knowledge about beekeeping nor do they have any interest in learning about them. They occasionally remove the top and look down between the frames to see if there are still bees walking around on the comb. When a honey flow starts, they tend to stack a few boxes on top of the hive in hopes of obtaining a honey surplus at the end of the flow. I refer to this type of management style as, “Psychic Beekeeping.” These folks apparently seem to think that they know what’s going on inside the hive without having to actually manage the hive. This type of beekeeping is rarely successful.

The real "Beekeeper” is someone who takes the time to learn about beekeeping and develops a working knowledge about the craft. They explore beforehand the different types of hives that are available (Example: Langstroth, Ware and Top Bar hive.) and then they decide on the one that will best fit their needs. They attend local beekeeping meetings and go to beekeeping classes. They try to find a mentor that will help them get started.

After receiving their first hives, they continue reading and asking questions. They develop a management routine and stick to it. They tweak things as they go along. They should perform their own experiments and not just except things that have been in the beekeeping books for generations. For an example; smoking the entrance before opening the hive and Blowing smoke.

We are mixing it up a little bit here in our Q&A sections. Not only are we adding a new voice to our question and answer forum, but this team trio featuring Dennis Brown of Lone Star Farms, Phill Remick of New Bee Rescue and Stephen Repasky of Sweet Meadow Farms will be rotating sections. This rotation will give each of them the opportunity to share their diverse experiences and also share their different voices with those with questions.

If you have a question you would like to share, email it to [email protected]


then pumping smoke down between the frames after you remove the top has been in the books for over a hundred years. What if you don’t smoke the hive entrance and when you remove the top you blow a little smoke across the top of the frames and not down in between them?

Let’s examine what happens when you blow smoke into the entrance. A lot of beekeepers have a hard time finding the queen during their hive inspection. A big reason for that is probably because they pumped smoke into the entrance. The smoke is lighter than the air so it moves up in between the frames and finally emerges from the top of the hive when you remove the lid. What just happened? You have disrupted all the hive activities with the smoke. The bees inside the hive are running around trying to figure out what’s going on and the queen is looking for a hiding place. She usually finds one.

Then to make sure you have completely disrupted the hive the best you can, you pump smoke down between the frames from the top. The smoke goes down and then slowly comes back up again. Hurray, the hive looks like it`s on fire.

One of the biggest joys in beekeeping for me over the last fifty years has been taking techniques from the beekeeping books and experimenting with them. A good manager of bees should always be looking for better ways to making his bees and him/herself successful.

A good beekeepers goal when working the hive should be to find the queen 98% of the time and when you do, she is laying eggs while you watch. That means that you have become skilled enough to perform a hive inspection with very little disruption to hive activities.

Try this next time you work your hive.

Approach your hive from the side. Do not blow smoke in the entrance. Put your hive tool under the lid and break the seal. Then lift the lid slightly. Take your smoker and lightly puff enough smoke to go across the top of the frames to the other side. Put the lid back down for about ten seconds then slowly remove the lid. It’s not the bees down between the frames that will get you so why smoke them? I have been using this technique for many years and it really works.

If your bees come rushing out of the hive entrance, then your bees are more aggressive then they should be. There are enough problems we as beekeepers have to deal with already without dealing with aggression. I would suggest that you re-queen that aggressive hive.

So, before you get into beekeeping, you need to decide whether you intend to become a “Keeper of Bees” or a real “Beekeeper.”

Enjoy your bees!Dennis Brown

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Dennis Brown is the author of “Beekeeping: A Personal Journey” and “Beekeeping: Questions and Answers,” both of which are sold here at Walter T. Kelley Bee Supply. Contact Dennis at www.lonestarfarms.net.


Just the FAQsNEVER ASSUME

It was a magnificent spring, now summer’s fading fast and all is well with the honey bees. Your colony has performed beyond expectation. The hive is next to the fence, mostly in sunshine, out of the wind and strategically placed to escape notice by neighbors who might have a conniption if they viewed them on a daily basis.

As I’ve mentioned in previous writings, some new beekeepers sincerely believe it isn’t compulsory to smoke their colonies because so far, this season, the honey bees have been pretty congenial.

Then one day it is cold, cloudy and or rainy and the inexperienced apiarists get a rude awakening. As they begin to access the hive, several bees fly directly at their veil bouncing off it as if they are warning the unwelcome visitors not to come any closer. Not understanding or heeding this obvious sign, the keepers continue to remove the lid using no smoke and instantly are overwhelmed by mad, stinging insects.

What in the world could be wrong? The same approach worked fine yesterday and the day before. Was it a strong aftershave or perhaps a powerful perfume being worn that upset the colony or, were they just having a bad day? Maybe they despise the wife’s pink bee suit complete with matching boots and bee pendant.

As the startled beekeepers survey the scene from a safe haven several feet away, they ponder while counting stingers embedded in their clothing, their tarnished bee paradise lost. An experienced beekeeper may get by, now and then, without the use of smoke on a sunny, warm day when there is an obvious honey flow.

During fall, an experienced keeper knows that cloudy, rainy or cold days with intermittent nectar flow can result in much more aggressive bees. Beekeepers in the know never assume that the colony will be as docile as they were in summer. Besides the change in weather, bees are aggravated by robbing and wasps. As the weather gets cooler, I encourage all beginning beekeepers to consider the potential for issues which could often result in unwanted, robbing and above all, unnecessary painful stings.

Most of us realize not to enter hives in the depths of winter as not only will you disrupt and annoy them during their cool weather mode, you break the seal of

by Phill Remick

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the hive, disturb the cluster and alter the temperature that they are trying to maintain.

With old man winter staring us down here’s a couple of items to consider for winter which will help you get prepared for spring. Note colony strength, checking for adequate stores of honey and pollen. Remove excluder. Get any extra supers off and get down to a hive body and only one super, and then reduce that entrance. If some of your hives are a bit weak, I suggest getting a robbing screen. This will provide your colonies a fighting chance for winter survival.

Beekeeping is a wonderful, exciting and rewarding hobby and sometimes a lifelong journey. Spring and summer bee attitudes are not the same as fall and winter reactions. Learn to observe the weather, temperature and sound of the hive. Never assume anything with honey bees because their reactions change along with the seasons.

Phill Remick has kept bees professionally since the 70’s. He offers sage advice and instruction to those in need in the Albuquerque metro area. Visit Phill’s site at www.newbeerescue.com

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For the Love of Swarms

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In the biology of the honey bee (Apis mellifera L.), swarming specifically describes a particular activity or event where a large number of honey bees leave a hive with a queen to establish a new colony. This collection of bees is called a swarm. The swarming process benefits the continuation of the genetics of reproductively successful colonies that have adapted and prospered well enough to support swarm generation. In some races of honey bees, however, swarming is also a method of survival the colony uses to move to areas where nectar and pollen are more prevalent or to avoid negative or oppressive influences present in their hives. These are absconding swarms and their function, though different, is also essential to keeping the colony alive.

In early beekeeping, prior to the development of the modern movable frame hive, beekeepers kept bees in skeps, clay pots, gum logs and box hives. Humans often killed bees in these instances, to harvest the honey. Swarming was essential to the early beekeeper in order to replace these destroyed colonies or to add additional colonies. Natural swarming was absolutely required for beekeeping to be sustainable. Today, swarming is controlled to a certain extent by the beekeeper and the undesirable destruction of a colony during harvest is avoided with modern equipment and techniques. Additionally, increase colonies or splits can be made by the beekeeper, both to consciously increase a beekeeper’s colony holdings and in an effort to reduce the odds of swarming, which is often viewed as an unnecessary expense of colony resources.

Beekeepers ask, “What causes honey bee colonies to swarm?” and “How do I manage swarming in my hive?” An understanding of swarming biology can answer these questions and help a beekeeper to manage the swarming instinct and care for captured swarms. In a healthy, overwintered colony, the queen produces a large number of fertilized eggs (from 1200 to 2500 a day, average of 1500 eggs per day) which develop into female workers. Under certain conditions, healthy queens will also lay unfertilized eggs that instead develop into drones, the males. Various factors combine to stimulate a colony to swarm, sometimes collectively referred to as swarming pressures, including the presence of large numbers of bees, abundant brood, abundant stores of food and the presence of new queen cells. New queen cells are often produced when there is congestion in the brood nest and a reduction in the concentration of queen pheromone. The queen herself monitors this concentration and is stimulated to start swarm cell production by laying eggs into unique cell cups. While swarms may develop at any

X•Y•ZsAdvanced Beekeepingby Stephen J. Repasky, EAS Master Beekeeper


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time, they appear most commonly at peak foraging time in spring and also in the late summer when a new group of flowers stimulate colony growth.

Swarming provides an opportunity for the species to expand its genetic representation through a daughter queen, reared back at the original colony site, while spreading their genes to encompass new territory and resources under the original queen as she builds up the new colony. The swarming process, however, is a very risky event for the hive. Research conducted at Cornell University, suggests that more than 80 percent of all swarms fail to survive their first winter. Even if the newly founded hive survives, the original hive may die if it fails to develop a new, viable queen to replace the departed queen.

Losing a swarm may evoke feelings of failure from some beekeepers if it issues from your own apiary, but capturing a swarm is a measure of great success. Catching a swarm is often viewed as a transition from a new beekeeper to one with more experience under the veil. Swarming is exciting and isn’t something to fear; instead, it is something to appreciate and respect. The behavior of a swarm of honey bees, and the colony’s preparations that lead up to a swarm issuing from the hive, give us a wonderful opportunity to study this marvel of Nature.

If you find a swarm at rest, take a few minutes to watch the activities of bees in the cluster. You will see bees with pollen who got caught up with the departing swarm as it left the hive, several returning scouts dancing to indicate potential new homes, and bees that patiently await the swarm’s next move. Look at the swarm as a whole and you will see a fascinating, complex organism that is in the process of making decisions of where to go, when to go, and how to get there, often in the blink of an eye.

Most reproductive swarming takes place in mid-spring in temperate areas of the United States. Honey bee swarming is a process that colonies go through to divide one colony into two or more independent units, as the season allows. It provides a reduction or break in the brood cycle as would any re-queening event. An obvious benefit of breaking the brood cycle is that many hive ailments, such as varroa mites, European foulbrood and sacbrood are reduced when a hive has a break in the brood cycle. From a beekeeper’s perspective, swarming represents an opportunity for self-education. In order for beekeepers to understand how to manage or deal with the swarming instinct of honey bee colonies, they must understand the biological processes that take place within the hive. Awareness of these processes deepens beekeepers’ understanding of the colony and its management as one unit (the colony), consisting of thousands of individual units (the bees), and clarifies this understanding by putting into practice the principles of swarm management. It also helps a beekeeper understand that, once a colony has initiated its impulse to swarm, it is almost impossible to reverse this behavior. Even with some management in a colony in which swarming has been initiated; it can be difficult to stop, but having an understanding of the swarming behaviors vastly improves your odds of successful swarm management.


The number of times a colony swarms is also determined by the action or actions of the queen and developing virgin queens inside the hive. A colony of honey bees in equilibrium consists of one queen and many workers and drones. During swarm season, that equilibrium is thrown off by the production of multiple queens. In order to regain equilibrium, queen elimination must take place. A study by Drs. David Gilley and David Tarpy discusses these mechanisms and how the colony regains its one queen status. During swarm season a colony produces multiple queen cells. Once the primary swarm issues with the original mated queen there is an imbalance of queens inside. In order to regain this balance one mechanism of balancing the colony is via “queen- queen duels” where virgin queens will battle each other until one of the virgin queens is killed. This leaves the colony with one queen to head the colony. Another mechanism used is “secondary swarm departure”. These secondary or afterswarms depart with fewer workers but can contain multiple virgin queens. Work by Seeley suggests that survival rates amongst secondary swarms are low and therefore, these secondary swarms are a method of queen elimination. All of these mechanisms can have an impact on how many times and how frequently colonies will swarm.

Beekeepers disagree if having a swarm issue from a hive will reduce or eliminate surplus honey production for that hive. There are several variables that dictate this, such as strength of nectar flow, the size of the swarm, and the number of swarms a colony issues. When swarming peaks in early June in western Pennsylvania, the nectar flow is two-thirds over and a colony may not recover enough of the population in time to produce much if any surplus honey. In a more northern location, like Michigan, a single swarm can result in a loss of a honey crop in some years while in other locations, a swarm adjusts the bee population for flows that continue into August. The answer to the question of whether or not swarming will affect the honey harvest depends on the nectar sources and how long nectar-producing flowers remain in bloom that year. On the other side of that discussion, a swarming colony provides a much needed break in the brood cycle, which reduces potentially high varroa mite load. Subsequently, there is no easy answer as to whether the effects of swarming will be a net positive or negative impact.

Swarming usually leads to a freshly mated, vigorously laying queen in the parent colony. Swarm colonies are ready to build comb and grow colony size at a rapid rate and are a perfect way to increase the number of colonies you manage. They are ideal for new comb production as bee gorge on honey when they leave the hive. Stored in the pre-digestive part of the alimentary canal called the honey stomach, honey is vital to the production of comb. The abundance of honey in swarming workers primes them for comb construction.

Once a colony swarms, it will be about six weeks before the first brood of the new queen emerges, stunting the colony growth, pollen and nectar gathering and optimum pollination efficiency. In urban and suburban neighborhoods, swarms can result in hysteria if observed by those not familiar with honey bees. Beekeepers often receive calls from police or fire departments requesting assistance with a large, menacing swarm of bees that appeared out of nowhere! A good beekeeper must turn that episode into a teaching opportunity for those involved.

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Successful swarms will quite often swarm their second season and usually produce multiple swarms in a short time period. This huge investment by the parent colony is offset by the low percentage of success of these swarms that survive to reach their first anniversary—about 16 percent, based upon work by Seeley and others. Once these swarms reach the one-year mark, their success rate is usually much higher and they become swarm generators the next season or two. But what if the founding colony produces a swarm that does NOT reach its first anniversary? Does that mean that the colony has failed to support future growth of the bee population in the ecosystem? It seems reasonable that even failed colonies continue to benefit future bee settlement, even in death. Why? Because the nest or cavity they prepared and have built extensive amounts of beeswax comb still remains in the nest. The successful founding colony may survive for several years, and continue to generate swarms most years during this time period. Some of these subsequent swarms, the younger sisters of the failed swarm, will benefit by discovering the nest of older ‘sister swarm cavities’ that have died, often of winter starvation. It is an intriguing idea that parent colonies in an ecosystem continue to generate swarms over several years, as shown by Tom Seeley’s research, and there is a benefit to the long term survival of the honey bee species by these shared colony sites.

This is just a small portion of Stephen Repasky’s newly released book Swarm Essentials. Swarm Essentials outlines the ramifications of swarming behavior (highlighting the often overlooked benefits), proven prevention and management techniques, and how to recover and even prosper from a successful swarm attempt.

It can be purchased by sending a check for $23, payable to Steve Repasky, 3109 Pioneer Ave, Pittsburgh PA 15226. Or order online: https://squareup.com/market/meadow-sweet-apiaries/swarm-essentials-book

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Wednesday

7:30 -8:308:30-8:458:45-9:159:15-9:459:45-10:1510:15-10:4510:45-11:1511:15-11:4511:45-1:0011:45-1:00 WAS Board Meeting, Rm 205 School of Extended and Lifelong Learning1:00-1:30 Interpreting Continuous Hive Weight and Temperature, William Meilke, USDA1:30-1:501:50-2:102:10-2:302:30-3:003:00-3:304:00-4:304:30-5:005:00-5:155:157:00-9:00

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Thursday

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Ekstrom's Stage Station, Clinton, Montana

37th Annual Meeting, Western Apiculture Society (WAS)

17-Sep 3rd Floor, Ballroom Area, University Center, The University of MT

Registration, 3rd Floor Lobby, North End, UCOpening Comments, Jerry Bromenshenk and Frank Linton

Bayer Crop Science Research and Scale Hives, Dick RogersMonsanto Research and Scale Hives, Jerry Hayes

Journeyman Hive Monitoring, Robert McCreery, Dromore Beekeepers, N. Ireland

Molecular Genetics for Queen Production, David McMillan, Betta Bees, New ZealandLooking to the Future, Panel Discussion, David Firth, Univ. MT - Moderator

AdjournDinner for Speakers, Sponsored by Bee Culture Magazine

Break

Lunch - Workshop Breaks early to avoid student crush at noon

Wide Scale Scientific Experiments Can be Conducted by Beekeepers, Huw Evans, Arnia

Partnering with Universities and other Companies, Joe Fanguy, University of MT

NASA Monitoring Project Status, Wayne Esaias, Goddard Space Center, Retired

Acoustic Scanning of Bee Pests, Diseases, Pesticides, Robert Seccomb, Bee Alert

RFID Chips & Infra-Red Imaging, Jerry Bromenshenk, Bee AlertBreak

LIDAR Mapping of Bees, Scott Debnam and Colin Henderson, University of Montana

18-Sep 3rd Floor, Ballroom Area, University Center, The University of MT

Registration, 3rd Floor Lobby, North End, UCOpening Comments, Jerry Bromenshenk

Changes in Beekeeping Over Three Decades, Eric Mussen, UC Davis

The Path of Discovery to the Future

BreakEducational Outreach for Kids, Sarah Red-Laird, Bee Girl; Elena Hoffman, Honey Princess

2nd International Workshop on Hive and Bee MonitoringThe Future….brought to you by WAS, and Bee Culture Magazine

Western Apiculture Society, Main Program - Day 1

Radar for Locating Drone Congregation Areas, Gerald Loper, Tucson, AZ

WESTERN APICULTURE SOCIETY CONFERENCE and2nd International Workshop on Hive & Bee Monitoring

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Solicitation for Participating Honey Producers with 50+ hives for a No Cost Real-Time Hive Monitoring Study

SummaryApiara Hive Technologies is a start-up company in Portland, Maine developing low cost weight sensing technology for both commercial and hobby beekeepers to more accurately measure colony activity remotely. Remote hive monitoring has many benefits including identifying nectar flows, dearths, swarming and general colony health. Apiara is currently writing a USDA Grant proposal to conduct a feasibility study to measure the economic benefits of using this technology including potential labor cost savings and increases in honey production. If awarded, the study would begin in June of 2015 for an eight month period.

We are currently seeking 25 participating honey producers who fit within the USDA category of “Small to MidSize with 50 or more hives."

• Farms with annual revenues less than $500,000.• Each participant is asked to sign a letter of support for the grant as well as a letter of commitment to partake in the study in 2015.• Participants will receive 8-10 hive monitors at no cost that will deliver real time data through a paid cellular service covered by the grant. Participants will have 24/7 access to real time colony activity data for each of their hives being monitored and will be asked to fill out periodic surveys and short management records only for those hives in the study.• Participants will also have support from Apiara in interpreting results• Honey Producers of any scale are invited to participate as long as they have minimum 50 hives, generate less than $500,000 in annual revenue from honey sales. • We encourage participation from multiple geographic regions and climates as well.

Participants must be written into the grant and have completed their letters of support no later than September 26th 2014 to be accepted. Please Feel Free To Share This Document With Your Network.

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Bee ScienceThe Concillience of Honeybee Husbandry—Across Landscapes and Between Regions: Working Together to Establish Healthy Corridors for Honeybee & Human Nutritional & Productive Prosperity

This article has been ruminating in my mind for quite some time. I’ve often wondered if I’m dreaming some of the connections that visualize in my mind as I try to decipher all the new and old queries looking to assist honeybee health for now and into the future. But the connections keep seeming to appear and when I run these ideas by other beekeepers and other land stewards, they have some of the same connections manifesting. Thus, it is with utmost humility that I share this three part internal discussion that I am ruminating with this reading audience. This first part will share the initial connections that I am witnessing as a professional beekeeper as each season passes. The 2nd part will share the nutritional requirements for bees. And the 3rd part will share suggestions for helping to develop and manage healthy forage for our pollinators, who feed us. Recognizing how much impacts and leaves impressions on the varied landscapes of our whole continent is quite humbling to witness. This recognition prompts us to communicate and to become more proactive in managing our immediate surroundings and our communities’ ecosystems. People are becoming more aware of the residual tide of data and chemicals swirling about. And while there is most likely not a single place on this planet that hasn’t had human interaction, it is this anthropocene era of man interacting that will help to guide in finding solutions or rejuvenations for sustainable management of our lands, air, water and biodiversity. This is paramount to any society maintaining and continuing to exist. A look into the past, as to how biology, ecology and nutrition have played a part in survival and productivity may help to see where perhaps, management may need to retrace steps and take a different turn in order to sustain healthy and vibrant communities. Science can offer many answers and it poses many more questions to wonder and discover. Perhaps as each individual and the greater whole become aware of the connections and the choices that can be made, then positive outcomes will be nurtured to keep man, bugs, beasts and the plant kingdom thriving. Below are some notes I’d like to share with the various connections that I am realizing. For those who are interested in discussing some of these connections- or sharing some of their own realizations, you are encouraged to send in for publication and let’s further the discussion on nurture vs. nature and Nature nurturing. The more conversations and discussions on how as a team, we as beekeepers, as researchers and as industry can come to a consilience and develop a multidisciplinary approach to long-term biodiversity management, the better for the bees and for global health.

by Melanie Kirby


Bee Science continued

Botany & MedicineThe study of plants and the emergence of medicine travelled hand in hand until the 17th century when both of these arts turned scientific and separated in discussions. The early medical arts were associated with the discovery and application of healing substances. It is calculated that at this present time at least 70% of medicines are or were plant derived with more research and study going into herbal medicinal applications. Although plants are morphologically simple compared to animals, this simplicity of form has been compensated by a complex biochemistry, much of it to repel their own pathogens and predators. Accessing or unlocking the science and facilitation behind these actualities leads research into the potentials of further applications for health. It is this ability of plants that is exploited by humans as medicines or as health functional phytochemicals. Thus, horticulture and the healing arts have long had a vital connection. This knowledge has been transmitted to us in books and treatises. Medicinal plants known as herbals, containing the names and description of plants with their properties and medical virtues have had a long tradition in many cultures, ancient and modern. Herbals represent the vital link between botany and medicine, horticulture and health. Herbals assisting humans has been topic of much research but herbals assisting other animals is a relatively newer thread of exploration. From developing the best diet for cats, dogs and horses, there is research into what diet is healthy for honeybees. And of course though no man-made concoction can truly replace what Mother Nature can provide, we can learn what the bees need and what for to better understand and develop proper land management strategies to keep them well nourished and healthy. The bees have developed their diet over millennia and so they as well, already are familiar or conditioned to forage for what will maintain their individual productive selves AND their colony common health.

Seasonal Cycle*Plant Index*Environment: Polyphenism….epigenticsThere is research that discusses the impacts of environment on colony health and manifestation. What they are finding is that nature is nurturing; that the very environment which dictates what forage, nutrition and productive capabilities are present is what affects the relationship of castes and sexes (queens, workers, & drones). Polyphenism is the phenomenon where two or more distinct phenotypes are produced by the same genotype. Examples of polyphenism provide some of the most compelling systems for the study of epigenetics, which is the study of how the environment affects how an organism manifests and behaves.

Polyphenisms are a major reason for the success of the insects, allowing them to partition life history stages (with larvae dedicated to feeding and growth, and adults dedicated to reproduction and dispersal), to adopt different phenotypes at different seasonal stages to cope with time



sensitive surroundings and to partition labor within social groups (nurse bee, housekeeping bee, guard bee, forager). What this means is that environmental cues affect the behavior of the bees, and that is time sensitive- meaning seasonal. We already recognize that is the seasons and their transitions that affect the behavior and production of the bees.

Honey BeesAmong the eusocial insects, the processes underlying honeybee polyphenisms are the best understood. It has long been known that the environmental stimuli leading to the worker and queen castes are dietary in nature: larvae fed relatively low amounts of royal jelly by nurse bees develop into workers, while larvae fed high levels of royal jelly develop into queens. The higher quality food, higher quality royal jelly, the higher levels of hormonal response. How bees respond to any given situation or circumstance is flexible and this is called epigenetic plasticity. The ability of bees to process their environment and react or behave accordingly to keep their hive healthy and productive or to minimize and conserve depending on the season, shows just how responsive they can be to management, good or bad. Unfortunately some of the bad management that we are witnessing negatively affecting our bees and surroundings are large areas of compromised forage due to manipulation and dissemination of toxic residues from chemical applications in agricultural and developmental pursuits. The concept of “Frankenfood” for humans and for bees is of research consideration. The fluctuations in weather and climate are having affects on plant indexes and what and when things are able to grow and to come to fruition (fruit & seed). Long term weather effects such as drought are having negative effects on flora and fauna. The Reconciliation may be a shift from sedentary and migratory beekeeping to rotational grazing within a given area or region to support biodiversity and diversified nutrition. But what does this imply and what are the consequences? Will there be the added stresses of transport and do these outweigh the beneficial nutritional uptake than the deficits? Will supplemental feeding help to provide the missing ingredients? Following localized blooms means that bees need Our friends, a hive of honeybees.


a diversified landscape so that they can remain in less locations to minimize stress of migration but with the needed access to healthy forage throughout the seasons. Mother Nature has already given them wings to go forth and gather their needed food stores but it is up to stewards to ensure that habitat remains, is maintained and is enhanced for now and into the future. This will help to establish greater organismal health and the colony’s overlapping network of health between sister and sub-sister families. The benefits of pollination are innumerable and hard to express the enormity of its impact on human health and productivity. Recognizing this and keeping its connection to bee health in the front seat will help society reestablish restorative agricultural measures for today’s health and tomorrow’s weatlh. The needed concillience or multi-disciplinary approach will bring together beekeepers, land stewards, researchers, industries and communities together to preserve and promote positive management plans for healthy bees and pollinators.


Melanie has been keeping bees professionally for 17 years. She breeds survivor stock queenbees in the southern Rocky Mountains of northern New Mexico and promotes living laboratory applied research while savoring and sharing enchanted bee products. Email: [email protected].

Registration for Entomology 2014 is now open!

Register today to be part of ESA’s 62nd Annual Meeting November 16-19, 2014 in Portland, Oregon!

If the entomological sciences are your passion, we have a world of research, education, networking and information just waiting for you! Plan to join more than 3,200 researchers, professors, graduate and undergraduate students, extension service personnel, administrators, research technicians, consultants, and others from around the globe for four days of science, networking and fun. This is the most important annual conference anywhere in the world for the science of entomology.

New for Entomology 2014:• ESA’s First Urban Adventure Run Sponsored by Fit Right NW• NEW Child Care Grant Program• An assortment of full-day and half-day tour options to see Portland and the surround-ing area• An Insect Illustrator’s Workshop• 2014 Founders' Memorial Lecture by Dr. Fred Gould• 108 symposia and organized meetingsto fill the 4 days of the conference!

Learn More At: http://www.entsoc.org/entomology2014/symposia


Bee Thinking AboutBeeingKids.org

BeeingKids.org is a world-wide, grass roots endeavor bringing together bee teachers and enthusiasts with the future and hope of future skilled beekeepers. “Currently, the majority of the beekeepers around the world are over the age of 65 and younger people need trained in the skills of beekeeping,” says John Kefuss. Kefuss has been an international beekeeper and researcher for over 40 years.

BeeingKids.org is an effort developed by Kefuss, (http://www.meamcneil.com/John%20Kefuss%20Keeping%20Bees%20That%20Keep%20Themselves.pdf). of Toulouse, France, and Bella Donna of BHealthy BHappy LLC (www.BeeHealthy.biz) in Central Arizona. The website was established to offer a repository of information and projects going on around the world that encourage, share and offer teaching materials to young beekeepers.

If you have an interest into sponsoring or contributing to this effort of disseminating information on child beekeeping, contact Bella Donna at [email protected]. Melanie and Esai working a hive.

Future beekeepers are learning skills at a BeeingKids.org workshop.

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Michael FairbrotherProprietor, Moonlight Meadery, Londonderry, NH

Mike FaulProprietor, Rabbit’s Foot Meadery, Sunnyvale, CA

Amina HarrisDirector, Honey and Pollination Center, Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science,

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September 2014

Vermont: Alstead, Chas Andros wintering bees workshopRegistration requiredSept. 16, 2014 1-3:30 PM 18 MacLean Road, Alstead, NH Email: [email protected] Tel: 603-756-9056

Montana: Western Apicultural Society of North America & 2nd Int’l Workshop on Hive & Bee MonitoringSeptember 17-20, 2014Montana State University - Missoula, MontanaContact: [email protected]: http://ucanr.edu/sites/was2

Montana: 2nd International Workshop on Hive and Bee Management& WAS- Western Apicultural Society of North America Conference *see insertSeptember 17-21, 2014 - Missoula, MontanaWeb: http://ucanr.edu/sites/was2/

India: Conservation and Management of Pollinators For Sustainable Agriculture and Ecosystem Services September 24-26, 2014NASC Auditorium, ICAR, PUSANewDelhi, IndiaContact: www.eventm.net/iscmp2014

Alabama Beekeepers Association ConventionSeptember 26-27, 2014Performing Arts CenterClanton, ALInfo: www.alabamabeekeepers.com Kelley’s will be attending this event.

October 2014

Kansas Honey Producers Association Fall 2014 meeting Special Guest Speakers- Gary & Ginger Reuter (Gary is a technician at the Univ. of Minnesota Bee Lab)October 17 & 18, 2014Clarion Inn and Suites5805 W. Kellogg, Wichita, KS 67209www.kansashoneyproducers.org

Romania: The First Congress of the International Federation of Apitherapy & 7th Romanian Apitherapy CongressOctober 17-19, 2014October 20 & 21 intensive workshop offered. Brasov, Romania Email [email protected] Or [email protected]

Georgia: Henry County Beekeepers Club: Learn about how to become a Beekeeper“Beginner Beekeeping Short Course”Saturday, October 25, 2014, 8:00 A.M. – 4:00 P.M.,Public Safety Building Community Room, 116 Zack Hinton Parkway South, McDonough, Georgia,Info: www.henrycountybeekeepers.org Tel: 770-473-5434

Ohio: The Russians are Coming: Featuring the Russian Honey Bee Breeding ProgramOctober 25-26, 2014 - Medina, OhioContact Amanda - [email protected] Tel: 330-725-6677, ext 3255 Kim Flottum - [email protected] Tel: 330-725-6677, ext 3214

November 2014

Colorado: CSBA Annual Winter Meeting featuring Katie Lee & Melanie KirbyNovember 6-7, 2014 Denver, CO

California: 2014 CSBA Annual ConventionNovember 14 & 15, 2014Hyatt Regency Valencia 24500 Town Center Dr, Valencia, CA 91355http://www.californiastatebeekeepers.com/events.html

California: Introduction to Mead Making at Robert Mondavi Institute’s Honey & Pollination CenterNovember 14-15, 2014Email: [email protected]

Oregon: Entomological Society of America’s (ESA) 62nd Annual MeetingNovember 16-19, 2014 Portland, Oregonhttp://www.entsoc.org/entomology2014/symposia

We’d love to share news of your upcoming events. Please send the event name, date, website and/or contact information to me by the 10th of each month for inclusion in the following month’s issue. [email protected]

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