Regular Meeting – With Bald-faced Hornets
Queens Park Queens Park Tennis Courts, New Westminster, British Columbia, CanadaRegular meeting. Checking all colonies for queen rite and honey production. Also dissecting bald-faced hornet's nest - compliments of Maddy.
Regular Meeting – First Honey Harvest of the Year !!
Queens Park Queens Park Tennis Courts, New Westminster, British Columbia, CanadaRegular meeting consisting of Module 10 - Honey Harvest, followed by our first honey harvest of the year! Very exciting. Bring a bee suit, veil, smoker, and BEE BRUSH to help remove honey from the hive. We will be using a motorized honey extractor so we should be done by noon. Everyone takes home a […]
Regular meeting. Check for swarming. Check if enough empty space in honey supers
Queens Park Queens Park Tennis Courts, New Westminster, British Columbia, CanadaRegular meeting to see if the colonies are swarming. Also check to make sure there is at least a half box of empty frames in the honey super. If not, under super. We are not harvesting until the week of August 15.
Regular Meeting
Queens Park Queens Park Tennis Courts, New Westminster, British Columbia, CanadaTwo weeks to go before our final harvest and start of feed and medication. We will be checking for brood disease and honey stores this week.
Regular Meeting – Fall Preparation Discussion
Queens Park Queens Park Tennis Courts, New Westminster, British Columbia, CanadaAugust 15 is the end of the current season and the start of the next season. What a beekeeper does at this time is essential to ensure colonies survive over winter and are productive the following season. Check out Module 11 - Fall Preparation in the Education section of this website before coming out this […]
Regular Meeting – Feed, Queen, Varroa Check
Queens Park Queens Park Tennis Courts, New Westminster, British Columbia, CanadaRegular meeting this week. We check all colonies for feed, a laying queen, and disease. We will also roll six colonies for Varroa. It is an important task that requires detail and thoroughness.
Regular meeting – Feed and Formic Acid Pads
Queens Park Queens Park Tennis Courts, New Westminster, British Columbia, CanadaRegular meeting. We need to feed syrup and apply the second of four formic acid pads. The first treatment was applied Monday of this week. We will apply 4 treatments, 5 days apart.
Regular Meeting – Rolling for Varroa
Queens Park Queens Park Tennis Courts, New Westminster, British Columbia, CanadaRegular meeting - Rolling for Varroa. Checking queenless colony.
2021 AGM
Centennial Lodge, Queens Park Millennium Trail, Queens Park, New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada2021 AGM at Centennial Lodge is open to all members who have paid their dues. The meeting will include a discussion of club goals for year 2022. See you all soon. p.s. The Centennial Lodge is just north of the bee yard in the same building as the Art Gallery.
Regular Meeting – Feeding Bees
Queens Park Queens Park Tennis Courts, New Westminster, British Columbia, CanadaWe are feeding syrup and pollen patties this Saturday and possibly merging two weak colonies, if the weather warms a bit. Bring a bee suit if you have one.
Regular Meeting
Queens Park Queens Park Tennis Courts, New Westminster, British Columbia, CanadaModule 4 will be discussed - Chalkbrood and Varroa on the bottom board.
Regular Meeting – Module 5 Spring Build-up
Queens Park Queens Park Tennis Courts, New Westminster, British Columbia, CanadaSome of our colonies are growing into large populations and we need to plan removing brood to prevent swarming. This week we will discuss spring build up, equalizing, and making increases. Please pre-read module 5 in the Education Section of our website.