2 Cs and a Bee

Our Objectives: The advancement and improvement of the beekeeping industry and the state inspection. The eradication of diseases in all apiaries. The disbursement of knowledge regarding the value of the honeybee as a pollinating agent and the value of the honey as a food.

Announcements
June 23rd, 2013	June Meeting of 2 Cs and a Bee will be held at the Lew Smith residence (Bedford, Pa.) at 2 p.m. Directions For more information contact our Secretary: by email or at (814) 472-7637.
Mite Control Survey Katy Evans, graduate student at the University of Delaware, is working on a project focusing on helping the local beekeeping community reduce and better manage mite populations and varroa vectored viruses in a non-chemical fashion. She is requesting beekeeper participation in a survey to find out their strategies used to control for mites. Details Survey link
Bee Swarms Article "The Secret Life of Bees": Article from Smithsonian.com about Thomas Seeley, biologist from Cornell University, and his study of bee swarming.
Honey Sale Laws HB2565 ACT_106 Honey Sale And Labeling Act Guidelines for the Sanitary Operation of Honey Extracting Facilities
Pesticide Makers and Bee Losses "Pesticide Makers Seek Answers as Bee Losses Sting Agriculture" Recent article from scientificamerican.com.
Pesticide List A list of chemicals with detailed information is available in various formats: Pesticide List (Spreadsheet Format) Pesticide List (HTML Format)
Protecting Honey Bees from Chemical Pesticides If you are a grower, farmer, have honeybees pollinating your crops, or are a beekeeper, here is an article on protecting your bees from chemical pesticides. It is written by: Maryann Frazier Senior Extension Associate Penn State Protecting Honey Bees from Chemical Pesticides
Emailed Newsletter for Members We have the capability to send your newsletter by e-mail, if you would so prefer. If anyone, who is a member in good standing, is interested in receiving it that way, please use this form to let us know.
Colony Collapse Disorder Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) is the name that has been given to the latest, and what seems to be the most serious, die-off of honey bee colonies across the country. It is characterized by, sudden colony death with a lack of adult bees in/in front of the dead-outs. Honey and bee bread are usually present and there is often evidence of recent brood rearing. In some cases, the queen and a small number of survivor bees may be present in the brood nest. It is also characterized by delayed robbing and slower than normal invasion by common pests such as wax moth and small hive beetles. (From the Mid-Atlantic Apiculture site) Recent Research Article: (January 2012) "A New Threat to Honey Bees, the Parasitic Phorid Fly..." Read the article Additional CCD information at Mid-Atlantic Apiculture

Announcements

June 23rd, 2013

June Meeting of 2 Cs and a Bee will be held at the Lew Smith residence (Bedford, Pa.) at 2 p.m.
Directions
For more information contact our Secretary: by email or at (814) 472-7637.

Mite Control Survey

Katy Evans, graduate student at the University of Delaware, is working on a project focusing on helping the local beekeeping community reduce and better manage mite populations and varroa vectored viruses in a non-chemical fashion. She is requesting beekeeper participation in a survey to find out their strategies used to control for mites. Details Survey link

Bee Swarms Article

"The Secret Life of Bees": Article from Smithsonian.com about Thomas Seeley, biologist from Cornell University, and his study of bee swarming.

Honey Sale Laws

HB2565 ACT_106 Honey Sale And Labeling Act
Guidelines for the Sanitary Operation of Honey Extracting Facilities

Pesticide Makers and Bee Losses

"Pesticide Makers Seek Answers as Bee Losses Sting Agriculture" Recent article from scientificamerican.com.

Pesticide List

A list of chemicals with detailed information is available in various formats:
Pesticide List (Spreadsheet Format)
Pesticide List (HTML Format)

Protecting Honey Bees from Chemical Pesticides

If you are a grower, farmer, have honeybees pollinating your crops, or are a beekeeper, here is an article on protecting your bees from chemical pesticides.
It is written by:
Maryann Frazier
Senior Extension Associate
Penn State
Protecting Honey Bees from Chemical Pesticides

Emailed Newsletter for Members

We have the capability to send your newsletter by e-mail, if you would so prefer. If anyone, who is a member in good standing, is interested in receiving it that way, please use this form to let us know.

Colony Collapse Disorder

Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) is the name that has been given to the latest, and what seems to be the most serious, die-off of honey bee colonies across the country. It is characterized by, sudden colony death with a lack of adult bees in/in front of the dead-outs. Honey and bee bread are usually present and there is often evidence of recent brood rearing. In some cases, the queen and a small number of survivor bees may be present in the brood nest. It is also characterized by delayed robbing and slower than normal invasion by common pests such as wax moth and small hive beetles. (From the Mid-Atlantic Apiculture site)

Recent Research Article: (January 2012)
"A New Threat to Honey Bees, the Parasitic Phorid Fly..." Read the article

Additional CCD information at Mid-Atlantic Apiculture

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