President`s Report- Keith Jardine

Inside this issue:
President’s Report
1
Vice President—no report this month
Secretary’s Report
3
President’s Report- Keith Jardine
Email: [email protected]
The rainfall during the summer period as
lessened the impact from our dearth period. Make sure that you check for
swarm cells if you have started feeding.
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Treasurer’s Report
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August 8 meeting at the ChesLen Preserve 8:00 for 9:00 am:
Nature Notes
4
The ChesLen Venue is booked from 8:00
am till noon.
The Plant Guru
4
Classified Advertisements
4
Advertisement addendum
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MARK YOUR
CALENDARS
Arrive early if you would like to ask questions or set up a table.
We will have an open hive event after
the main meeting to show our new CCBA
hives at our new apiary location.
Please remember to bring your chair and
a drinks container. We have a large
coffee urn and two flasks for your use.
2015 Meetings at ChesLen
8am for 9am start
August 8th
September 12th
It would be great if you could bring cookies and snacks for our fellow members. It
is not only our bees that need to be fed.
Visit chescobees.org for more information.
Bring your honey to participate in our
honey tasting session. It is great to taste
the differences from various sites and
harvest times. Bring honey from other
locations too.
Send newsletter contributions to
[email protected]
Submissions may be edited for
length.
Ads-free for CCBA members/$5
for non-members.
Please be sure to submit before
Sunday, August 30, 2015 avoid
disappointment.
This is a chance to sell any unused equipment. Bring a table, set your equipment
on this table. Pay the CCBA $5 for this
privilege and you will not only help others, clear your shed and basement, but
also make some money.
We will have a raffle again for paid up
members.
Our CCBA T-shirts will be on sale for $20.
The library books will be available for
loan, please remember to return your
books.
George will be bringing plants for sale,
including germinated Yellow Sweet Clover.
Dave and Sam from Mann Lake will
again be with us. Please email him at:
[email protected]. Dave
is prepared to bring your ordered
purchases to the ChesLen location as
long as it has been ordered timeously.
Queen Cell Project: We have produced
almost 90 queen cells that are due for
collection. We will start another batch
soon. You collect the cell placing it in a
nucleus hive, the new queen will
emerge, mate with the drones in your
area and start laying. This is an excellent way to start your own nucleus
hive. We aim to provide the best queen
genetics for our local area with careful
selection and breeding. George had 27
from the Nemours genes. They come
from the hives at the Nemours mansion that survived for many years without any treatments or manipulation.
These are beautiful Carniolan bees with
great honey gathering and survival potential. I have the Pugh genes on my
first section. These are from a 40 year
possible survival with a guaranteed survival in the last few years. This was our
main graft program and should be
great survivor and honey gathering
genes. These queens should be nucleus
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hive queens. I also produced queens
from my best survivor genes from an
overwintered nucleus that produced
over 100 lbs. of honey. Also a few from
the ‘Full Bloom Apiary’ Carniolan
bought queens which are excellent
winter survival and nucleus hive genes.
We have purchase Hygienic bees from
the Zia apiaries which will form part of
the next round together with some
beautiful, gentle, Italian bees.
ChesLen Apiary Site: It is all systems go
on our new apiary site after our last
meeting with the ChesLen staff. We
have been ‘given’ a section of land to
use on the Eastern edge of the
ChesLen property. There is ample parking for all. A hive stand will be installed, hives moved and eventually a
fence erected around the site. This is
the year of the pollinator for the Natural Lands Trust. Al Wells is our lead on
this venture. We have a top bar hive
kindly donated by Jahan for this site as
well as others hives.
What our Bees are doing: Our electronic hive scales show that some days
the colonies are gaining weight and
other days losing. The extra moisture
in the soil has provided the plants with
a chance to produce nectar. Make sure
that your entrances have been reduced on small, vulnerable hives to
minimize robbing.
What I will do with my Bees this
month: I have eventually stopped my
‘Rolling Demaree’ where open brood is
placed in the top box and drawn
frames given to the queen in the lower
box. I now have switched to nucleus
hive production to ensure they are
ready for overwintering. I will start my
Varroa treatments this month with
August 2015
Oxalic acid vapor for the first time.
It is also important to place drone
frames into your hives and freeze
them. I am freezing the drone
frames as soon as they are capped,
as I have lost count as to which hive
had the ‘green frame’ at which date.
I will feed all nucleus hives with a
division board feeder and keep their
entrances very small. We have a
club extractor and refractometer for
loan. I have noticed very few hive
beetles when I see the earwigs under the outer cover. Is there a reason for this?
What should a Beginner do now?
Ensure that your hives have sufficient honey stores and feed carefully if they are running low. Ensure
that they are not starting the swarm
impulse. Use the club extractor if
you have a surplus of honey. Follow
the Beeginner program offered by
Michael Langer. We want your first
year with the bees to be a success.
Please join the group. Contact your
mentor for added advice.
Hive Crawl: Thank you Warren, our
master beekeeper, for helping us
with the 2015 Hive Crawl. Our hosts
at every location were wonderful
with food and drinks for hungry and
thirsty beekeepers. The hive crawls
have proven to be one of the most
popular events by our members.
The first stop was the Malvern location hosted by Rory. The two hives
we inspected and were both in
swarm preparation. One had already swarmed, while the other
swarmed a few days later, but not
before a few nucleus hives were
created. Next we departed to West
Chester where Rosie’s hive was
found to be healthy and happy and
manipulated by Myrl our Maryland
expert. We moved very slowly through
heavy traffic to George at ‘Old Brick
Farm’ in Glen Mills. We looked at
queen rearing and some of the nucleus hives. We found some of us were
excellent queen cell grafters the first
time and need to use them to graft
our queens in the future. We would
like to thank George for a wonderful
meal and a spectacular venue. We
moved on to the final destination with
Tom, where we found a swarm hanging from a tree. The swarm was collected, the queens found, swarm
housed and an extra nucleus hive created. I would like to thank Tom for
organizing the swarm for us.
EAS Annual Conference
The EAS annual conference will be
held at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada on August 10-14. Speakers include: Mark Winston, Robert E.
Page Jr., Phil Craft, Robert Currie, Ernesto Guzman, Pierre Giovenazzo,Tammy Horn, Zachary Huang,
Greg Hunt, Doug McRory, Heather
Mattila, Medhat Nasr, Gard Otis, Steve
Pernal, and Nigel Raine.
Workshops include: Queens Rearing, Integrated Pest Management
(IPM), Introductory Beekeeping Workshop, Mead and Beer Making, How to
Win at Honey Competitions, Beginner,
Intermediate, and Advanced Beekeeping.
Beekeeping Mentors: We have had a
tremendous response to our mentoring service continued by Walt Talunas.
Please contact Walt at [email protected] if you want to volunteer your services or need a mentor.
Please take the time to contact your
mentor as they will be an invaluable
source of information when you need
it.
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Secretary’s Report – Sharon Jardine
Email: [email protected]
well, thank you all for your
contributions.
I was really sorry that I was
The French and Pickering
unable to attend the picnic
this year. I believe that it was Creeks Conservation Trust are
a great success and the food hosting a large educational
was excellent, thank you eve- event on October the 21st or
22nd and are keen to have a
ryone! Talking of food, the
new system for the monthly beekeeper there. If you are
interested in manning a table
meetings is really working
and talking beekeeping for the
day please let me know.
Hope you have a great month
of beekeeping!
Treasurer’s Report – Jack McMichael
Email: [email protected]
Membership Update:
As of 7/30/2015 the CCBA has a
total of 289 “active” memberships.
That number includes 274 paid
2015 memberships, plus 15 honorary & courtesy memberships.
We’ve welcomed 115 new members thus far this year, but have
also had 82 members from last
year who did not renew their CCBA
membership.
Association Finances:
As of 7/30/2015 the CCBA has a
total of $16,781 in our coffers. The
most significant expenditure of late
was $1,077 paid for the nuc kits
sold at subsidized prices totaling
just slightly more than half that
amount to our members. Read below to learn of our most significant
income producing event of the
month.
I am very pleased to report that we
had a very successful annual picnic
and auction on Saturday July 18th.
The forecasted thunderstorms held
off, we had a good turnout, and
plenty of excellent food with a fine
variety of entrées, salads and side
ceeds. As it is, we were quite
happy to add $799 to the bank
account at the end of the day. To
dishes, and fabulous desserts!
all the winners, - enjoy your hard
Speaking of good eating, if you have- earned finds!
n’t already done so, you might want A Warm Welcome:
to think about starting to feed your Please join me in welcoming the
bees to help them build up sufficient following individuals who have
stores to make it through the upjoined (or returned to) the CCBA
coming winter.
within the last month:
In addition to the camaraderie and
good eats, we also had some great
Robert Weidner Newtown
items donated to the auction, which Square, PA
made for some very lively bidding.
Diane F. Campbell, Paoli, PA
In all there were 57 winning bids,
Christing Weidner, Newtown
ranging from several at $1 each, to a Square, PA
maximum of $72 for a complete 8
Naomi Hampson, Berwyn, PA
frame hive. Our hat’s off to Howard Zachery Clinton, Glenmore, PA
Frysinger who did his usual outstand- John Gajewski III, Phoenixville, PA
ing job as auctioneer, encouraging
Corrine Poulsen, Phoenixville, PA
everyone to get involved and raise
Debra Utterback, Chester Springs,
more money for the CCBA. In keep- PA
ing with my role as CCBA Treasurer, I Frank Shaneman, Honey Brook,
did my best to bid up several items PA
to benefit the Association. My only Joe Lewis, Bel Air, MD
regret is that between my bidding
Scott Lassen, Downingtown, PA
and Howard’s calling, we weren’t
able to coax another single dollar
Events:
from one of the winner bidders
Keep Saturday the 12th September
along the way. Had we done so, we open as the next ‘ChesLen’ date. Easy
could have hit the nice fat round
to remember as the date is the secnumber of $800 in total auction proond Saturday of the month.
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Nature Notes: Tim Sterrett
Email: [email protected]
Let’s celebrate some August
American originals. Corn, tomatoes, goldenrod (mostly), and
ragweed(!) all originated in the
Americas along with potatoes. The heat of summer
sweetens corn and tomatoes.
Beekeepers know that goldenrod has sticky pollen; goldenrod
flower heads with tiny blossoms
are worked over by a host of
flying insects and the spiders
that prey on them. Ragweed
flowers entice no insects; the
plant spreads it pollen on the
wind and into our noses.
Speaking of noses, the old
sneaker perfume that wafts
from from healthy August beehives
is probably caused by nectar from
asters not from goldenrod.
Katydids have tuned up, singing in
the early part of the night. Sounds
produced by rubbing body parts together are called stridulations. Crickets and katydids are famous stridulators. People who think insects can
predict the future should be preparing for a frost six weeks after the
first katydids sing.
The second half of summer is a traditional time for state, county, and
fire company fairs. These fairs have
two missions: education and entertainment. Beekeepers should be
supporting the agricultural displays
The Plant Guru—George Datto
at fairs by entering wax and honey
in contests and by decorating the
booths with club-owned pictures
of bees. The honey booth can always be/will be replaced by some
money-making venture if nobody
exhibits bee products. Deep-fatfried comb honey?
Monarch butterflies are drifting
through yards and gardens, laying
eggs and heading generally south.
Dust suspended in the air turns
sunsets orange.
In August, a big cold front usually
sweeps across our county from the
northwest, breaking the heat of
summer and teasing us with a suggestion of the cool crisp days and
nights of autumn.
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Time to start thinking about
what you want to plant this
fall. Fall is the best time of
year to plant perennials, bushes and trees. The weather is
cooling off, hurricane season
brings more rain than mid
summer, and the local nurseries are usually running sales
to decrease their inventory.
The club will be selling
‘caroline’ raspberries at fall
meetings. Five dollars a pot. I
want everyone to think about
dedicating some of their land
for berries. No matter what
the size of your property there
is no reason not to put in a few
blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, or something less
common. Blueberries can even
live in a container on your patio.
Find a sunny location with well
drained soiled (not water logged)
and you have a space for some
berries. Adjust the pH of the soil
down (6.0 for raspberries and 5.0
for blueberries) with some ammonium sulfate and you are ready to
plant. Berries are super healthy
for you and the bees. We are going to get together the plant sub
committee in the fall to decide on
what to purchase/grow for the
club in 2016. Send me an email if
you are interested in participating: [email protected].
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T’is possible that daily consumption of bee pollen can control
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In 1948 a researcher of the U.S. Department of Agriculture,
William Robinson, delayed the growth of mammary tumors by
feeding cancerous mice bee pollen.
Side effects of chemo treatments may bee lessened by bee
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The Essence of Life Itself
Bee pollen, as well as honey, are mentioned in
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and Slovak regions just as far back in history as
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Results were favorable on all but 2 of 189 knees & ankles
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Survive and Thrive
Alin Caillas of the French academy of Agriculture reports that
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were beekeepers. All of them, without exception said that their principle
food had always been honey. Dr. Tsitsin explained that these folks were
poor and would first sell all their pure honey at market, then consume residue found inside the bottom of their hives. After analysis, the doctor discovered that this residue was not honey, but bee pollen, which had fallen from
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- Regulates & controls blood pressure
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