BANV Newsletter Summers End 2013

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ALSOIN THIS ISSUE

This Month in the Beeyard

EAS MasterBeekeeper

Education: Nosema

VSBALangstroth Award

We're just coming off a hot August week...in mid-September.About two months ago I recall the middle of the hottest weekin July when I was looking forward to Winter. Sure, I'll complainabout the cold and dark days when it's January, but right now itfeels good to think about how not-hot-nor-humid it will beonce we get out of this heat wave!The bees are tolerating this heat better than I am. They aren't

too cross. Even through the dearth in July/August I haven'tseen any robbing behavior, maybe because I have been feedingconstantly and paying attention to providing enough space.They have their screened bottom board, extra screenedventilation holes in the inner cover, and the traditional sticklifting the back edge of the telescoping outer cover, allpromoting healthy air flow. And they have their 'airconditioner' bees busily fanning their wings at the frontentrance. The hive configuration and their efforts, despite thiscontinued spate of torrid days, should lead to more cappedhoney soon versus the frames of exposed nectar I still see.And it's high time for some visible signs of progress since

we're at the end of the bee year and starting the new one.Whether you count honey frames or weigh hives, knowing youhave stores atop your colonies is crucial as we move from thedearth period into the fall nectar flow when the Winter beesare brood. You can gain ground for overwintering survival if theFall nectar flow comes through (and some of the pollen goingin indicates we might have that going on now), and by feeding2:1 sugar syrup as the days shorten, but a good bit of capped

honey in those supers now is crucial. So, too, are IPM tasks likemite counts and SHB prevention measures, requeening, freezingdrone frames and so on.Sterner measures to deal with pests or disease may benecessary, if that's your beekeeping philosophy. And, oh whatfun to undertake these chores in the heat and humidity!I guess some suffering on my part is well worth it for the

bees' sake, and part of being a good steward to the bees, so Iwon't complain about the weather. Much. But, it sure feelsgood to think about Winter right now!While I'm looking ahead, please join me in thinking about

BANV's biennial elections; finding folks willing to lead BANVfor the next two years is very important to our purposes andto beekeeping in our region! I'll ask for a nominating

committee at the September meeting; perhaps you are

interested in helping in this key task.Our Constitution and ByLaws forbid the incumbent President

from running for that office, so I know for sure I'm steppingdown. But, I'll still serve on the Executive Committee as a pastpresident and intend to help find speakers, teach a class and dosome of the education chair duties. One of our currentofficers, David Michaelson (2ndVP) said he'd probably run for anoffice, but for certain we'll need a new Treasurer and Secretary,to go with the President and 1stVP jobs.I was fortunate to get a great batch of volunteers to Chair

several of BANV's core tasks and many of those will keep onworking for the new officers. One area that needs a new Chairis the coordinator for the Arlington County Fair. Other thanthat, unless something changes, I don't see any holes in theresponsibilities that keep the club running. However, somefolks have taken on two duties, and most are going into a thirdyear doing the club's work, so please respond to appeals forhelp if you hear them.Finally, and so crucial - - Mentors! We'll offer classes for 75

students in the February to April timeframe in 2014 and needto ensure each new student has someone with a littleexperience, or a lot, to get them through their first year. Idon't think I'd be far wrong saying this is the most important

job in BANV. I'm counting on you to sign up and do your partfor the new beeks!

PS - BYLAWS MOTION: "BANV's membership year is

currently 1 Feb to 31 Jan.We will entertain a motion at ourSeptember meeting, to be voted on in our October meeting, to

amend the ByLaws (Article I- Dues) to change the membershipyear to 1 May to 30 April.This will ease the workload on ourofficers/chairs who are responsible for the club's treasury,membership and class registrations, which now deluge us at thesame time each year, and align BANV's membership year closerto VSBA's membership year, preventing gaps in the twosystems.

Members in good standing on 31 January 2014 will be carriedforward in that status through 30 April 2014."

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NEWSLETTER |Summer 2013 2

Pollinator Plates

Applications

Requirement

Fulfilled!

Three years of workhas finally paid off-

thanks again to eachand every one of you,

as we couldn't have

done it ifwe weren't init together!

Pollinator Plates

has now collectedenough applications to meet the DMV and General

Assembly's requirement of 450 to pass a new special plate.Applications are still being accepted- If you'd like to be one of

the first to get the new plates, you can find out more onwww.pollinatorplates.com. The bill for the new plates will beintroduced into the General Assembly in January and after

being voted on and signed by the Governor, would go intoeffect on July 1, 2014, after which the plates will be processed

and distributed.

As an FYI, I'll keep on collecting applications until it's time forme to take them in to the DMV (next year). I'd like to be

sure we have plenty more than the minimum requirement incase there are any applications that can't be processed. Also,

if you've received emails from me asking for additional

information to complete your application, now would be agreat time to follow up with that so I can put those

applications in the "complete" folder. Thanks in advance!

I'll keep everyone updated as I have more information. For

now, please remember to keep your vehicle registration andtags up-to-date with the DMV as usual- the plates will be

mailed to you when they're ready.Samantha Gallagher

Minutes of BANV Meeting

Rob McKinney called the meeting to order at 7:00 pm, with 55 people present.

There were announcements of the Arlington County Fair honey booth results which included over 1000 lbs of honey sold withgross proceeds of over $9,000, a reminder of the upcoming November 9, 2013 VSBA meeting in Wyers Cave Va. at the Blue Ridge

Community College, and the announcement and recognition of Todd Harding as the newest Master Beekeeper in the club. BrendaKiessling presented Todd with his new pin of recognition,Todd becomes one of only 135 Master Beekeepers in the Eastern Apiary

Society in America. Congratulations Todd.John Fraser then gave a very informative talk on overwintering hives, the methods he uses in his hives and some of the problems

that beekeepers face in winter were discussed at length, with many useful suggestions offered by John. Issues such as critical tasksfor August and September, removal of extra supers,queen activity during the winter, making sure stored food is next to the

cluster, reducing hive entrances, and dealing with gusty conditions were discussed.Dane announced he will begin taking orders for packages on Dec. 1. You can begin placing phone orders at 703-525-6396, leave a

message that states your name and the number of packages you wish to purchase with or without marked queens. You can alsosens an email to [email protected] if you wish to purchase a package. All packages are on a first come first sell basis.Rob then gave a dramatic slide show about a local beekeeper who has encountered AFB in his hive. A brief talk was given by local

beekeeper, and a state inspector, Elizabeth McClelland was also present to answer questions from members who were present.The meeting was adjourned at 9:00 PM.

Respectfully submitted,

David Thompson

Pat & Jim Haskell receiving the VSBA Langstroth Award

for efforts and achievements in Virginia Beekeeping

Todd Harding is presented his EAS Master Beekeeper

pin at the monthly BANV Meeting
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ThisMonthintheBeeyardThe forecast is for night-time temperatures in the 40s and 50sfor the rest of this week (mid-September) as I write thiscolumn. Honeybees start to cluster at 57 degrees, so you canbe sure that your bee colonies are in fairly tight clusters whenthe temperature drops to 45 degrees. The bees are preparingfor winter, and you should help them with the task.

1. Combine weak hives. Even if this means that you will

only have one hive to enter the winter, your chancesof over-wintering two weak hives are poor. Dont setthe bees up for a frozen death combine the weakhives and kill the least successful queen or findanother beekeeper who needs a queen.

2. Feed colonies with less than 60 pounds of storedfood. This includes pollen, honey and syrup. If youdont know how to estimate stores, then ask yourmentor or an experienced beekeeper. If a mediumframe of honey weighs 5 pounds, then you need atleast 12 frames of honey above or adjacent to thecentral cluster. You need at least 4 frames of pollen.Feed syrup and a pollen pattie until you are satisfiedthat the stores are adequate.

3. Destroy hive beetles and mites. It may be too late toeffectively treat for mites, but hive beetles must beunder control at this time of year or they will wreakhavoc in the combs. Mite treatments will help if thecolony is still hatching brood, as the fewer parasiteson the brood, the healthier the winter population willbe. The winter bees must live for months.

4. Provide ventilation for the hive. A natural bee nest ina cavity in a tree will have upward ventilation for the

moisture generated by the consumption of manypounds of honey. Provide some form of ventilation, ordevelop your own strategy for dealing with themoisture that will build up in a closed compartment. Irecommend a inch hole near the top of the top-most hive box, screened on the inside to preventrobbing. Install the hole and screen now so that thebees can cover as much of it with propolis as they

deem suitable.

5. Check the hives. Beekeeping doesnt stop becausecooler weather arrives. Look for brood. Queenlesshives will not survive, so look for signs of a healthyqueen. You should find very few if any drones at thistime of year. Move the food supplies adjacent to andabove the central cluster, so that the bees may moveup into the now empty honey combs as the winterprogresses. Practice a quick inspection technique sothat the hive is open for less than 3 minutes while youdo a quick examination.

6. Install a mouse guard or other entrance reducer.Mice can enter a hive at this time of year and make a

nest while the bees are tightly clustered. Reduce theentrance so that nighttime is not a time for free-running mice in the colony.

7. Plan for next year. Figure out how many colonies youwant to have, and plan for how you will get to thatpoint. Write it down. If you assume that all yourcolonies survive the winter, then write that down andbuild on that assumption.


TEN MOST STUNNING BEE QUESTIONS FROM KIDS AT FALL FESTIVALS

Many beekeepers sell honey and exhibit observation hives at fall festivals all over Northern Virginia. The observation hives draw in

the crowds and the kids (and a few parents) start pumping out the questions . Some of the questions are very challenging, and

some cannot be answered without access to a precise textbook on honeybee anatomy. Other questions are simply stunning.Here are, in ascending order, are the ten most stunning questions I have been asked in recent years.

1. If drones die after mating, why do they chase after the queens?2. If honey is so good for your health, what happened to your hair?3. If a queen can choose the sex of an egg, why would she ever lay a drone egg?4. On what planet/galaxy did honeybees originate?5. Why do flowers produce nectar?6. What did the first bees eat before nectar and pollen were invented?7. If it takes a hive to raise a queen, where did the first queen come from?8. What kind of honey do cicadas/17 year locusts make?9. Why cant all the worker bees have husbands?

10. Can you please tell me the names of all the Melissae you know, the Greek goddesses of honey and mead?If you have not had the pleasure of being on the receiving end of these and many more surprising questions, then you should

consider stocking an observation hive and getting out there to educate the public. The good news is that you dont have to give

perfect answers to fiendishly difficult questions you need only give it your best. The kids and the parents will appreciate yourefforts.

APIMONDIA International Apicultural Congress, Kiev, Ukraine 29 Sep - 4 October 2013

Professor Tom Seeley, the eminent honey bee ecologist from Cornell University, and Patron of BfD Trust, will be the Keynotespeaker in the Plenary Session of the Scientific Commission for Beekeeping in Rural Development. Many other interesting papers

in Plenary Session and two Symposia devoted to development issues.If you cannot make it to Kiev, you can still participate by following the live-streaming http://apimondia2013.org.ua/en/scientific-program/
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Some of the most recent work on

nosema has been done within our

own State by Dr. Fell and Dr. Traver. To

the best of my understanding, it

appears that fumagillan B is no longer

recommended as a prophylactictreatment even though Virginia Tech

has not updated its own website and

still recommends it (a beekeeper I

know called Dr. Fell this Spring and

pointed out this discrepancy to him

and he said that it needed to be

updated!)

Here is a good start of a list of recent

research for anyone who wants totackle a summary- There is also Dr.

Traver's dissertation which she has

shared by request.

Traver, B.E. and Fell, R.D. 2012. Low

Natural Levels of

Nosema

ceranae

in Apis

mellifera

queens

.

Journal of Invertebrate Pathology.

110(3): 408-410.

Traver, B.E., Williams, M.R., and Fell,

R.D. 2012. Comparison of Within

Hive Sampling and Seasonal Activity of

Nosema

ceranae

in Honey Bee Colonies.

Journal

of Invertebrate Pathology.109(2):

187-193.

Traver, B.E. and Fell, R.D. 2011.

Nosema ceranae

in

Drone Honey Bees (

Apis

mellifera

).

Journal

of Invertebrate Pathology. 107(3):

234-236.

Traver, B.E. and Fell, R.D.2011. Ch. 9.

PCR for the Analysis of

Nosema

in

bees.

In

Honey Bee

Colony Health: Challenges and

Sustainable Solutions.

D.

Sammataro

and J.A. Yoder, eds. (Taylor and Francis

Group), p 322.

Traver, B.E. and Fell, R.D. 2011.

Prevalence and Infection Levels of

Nosema

in

Honey Bee (

Apis

mellifera

L.)

Colonies in Virginia

.

Journal of Invertebrate Pathology.

107(1): 43-49.

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INSURANCE FOR BEEKEEPERS

David and I have emailed back and forth the past few days and for anyoneinterested- beekeeping liability insurance as part of a Farm Family SPF 10package- combined with home owners insurance ranges from $125 (personalliability) to $225 (commercial/retail sales liability).

Most other quotes, including the Texas company advertising in the beejournals start at $500 minimum for the same business liability coverage.

The Texas Insurance & Financial (800-541-9849) firm that advertises in thebee journals quoted me a little over $600 for a *commercial* generalliability, million dollar policy per incident, two million aggregate. Thisincluded third-party/off-site apiary and I don't remember if there was amaximum dollar amount of honey sales. This company knew what I wanted andwas quick to give me a quote & ask for the sale. Their confidence, speed,and $600 price tag made it feel a bit opportunistic.

United Farm Family agent Ben Warfield (443) 695-2806, quoted me a similar *personal* general liability coverage that includes third party & offsiteapiaries and $4000 worth of honey sales, for $123. Working with Ben took alittle longer (a few days) because there was some back-n-forth to make surethey understood my unique situation and coverage needs. I appreciated that.

For what it's worth, I gave all my other insurance (renters & auto)policies to Ben and saved more than enough on those to pay for the apiaryinsurance.

[Shout out to BANV Stuart for pointing me to Ben.

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Next BANV Meeting

Join us on September 24 for our monthly meeting at the usual location (MasonGovernmental Center) at 7.

Featured for this month is a talk by Jeny Beausoliel on "Invasives".We'll have

the usual announcements and an amendment to the By-Laws to consider (votein October) to change BANV's "membership year" as well.

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