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Feb 20 2022
2022 March 13 Meeting @ 1 :30 pm; Featuring Dwight Wells
This month Dwight Wells presents
Swarm Control: Preventing the brood nest from being overcrowded and honey bound. The processes include controlling the honey barrier, reversing brood supers, bottom supering, checkerboarding
Removing brood to make a nuc and other ideas.
Swarm Trapping: Finding locations of feral colonies, swarm trap system, and contents, location of swarm traps
Management Of swarms after being caught including feeding, checking for mite biting behavior and overwintering.
Creating Nucs: Different nuc configurations, phases of nuc creation, selection of brood, resources, and bees. What balances colonies, queen introduction, feeding, care management, and over-wintering.
Bio of Dwight Wells
President of West Central Ohio Beekeepers Association (WCOBA), Life Member and Board Director of Ohio State Beekeepers Association (OSBA) Life Member of Beekeepers of Indiana and Life Member of Pennsylvania Beekeepers Association. A founding member and Director of the Heartland Honey Bee Breeders Cooperative (HHBBC). A board member of the Ohio Pollinator Habitat Initiative and a member of The Honey Bee Health Coalition. A member of the Propolis Project that has partnered with Wright-Paterson Air Force Base, we have a lease with the US Defense Department that allows us to have Honey Bees on the base. Because of our work at WPAFB, the base is a Bee City USA. We have 15 Ohio Locally Adapted Colonies on the base in 3 bee yards. Founding Member of the Ohio Queen Bee Improvement project. LLC. Recently created Rescuing Feral Honey Bees under the Propolis Project. Started keeping bees in 1954 at age 14 as a Penn State 4H project.
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Feb 08 2022
Gardening For Pollinators, February 13, 2022
Don’t miss this Sunday’s club meeting! Gary Keuffer will present Gardening for Pollinators at 1:30 pm. Our meetings are held at the Lebanon Presbyterian Church, 123 N. East Street in Lebanon, Ohio. All are welcome, you need not be a club member. See you there!
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Jan 11 2022
2022 Bee School registration is closed
Our Bee School registration has closed. We have reached our maximum class size. Thank you for your interest in our bee school and your support of Warren County Ohio Beekeepers.
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Jan 01 2022
Our 2022 Membership Application is Ready
Happy New Year!
If you want to renew your membership or if you want to join our club follow this
We are preparing for our BeeSchool In January. As such we will not have a meeting in January, but the February meeting will be held on the second Sunday at I:30 pm at the Lebanon Presbyterian Church at 123 N. East Street in Lebanon, Ohio. You need not be a member to attend, so come join us. We will be posting more information about our February meeting soon.
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Dec 30 2021
Bee School Registration Deadline, 1/11/2021
Our registration deadline for the 2022 bee school is Midnight January 11. We look forward to meeting everyone at bee school, Saturday, January 29th, 2022.
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Dec 28 2021
2022 Warren County Ohio Beekeepers Bee School Agenda
WCOB 2022 Bee School will be held on January 29th, 2022 at
108 East Church st
Mason, Ohio
Agenda:
9 am: Equipment by George Anderson
10 am: Seasonal Management of Beekeeping by Gary Keuffer
11 am: Honey Bee Nutrition by Gary Keuffer
12 pm: LUNCH ON YOUR OWN (You are welcome to bring your lunch)
1 pm: Installing a package and/or nuc by John Favaron
2 pm: Pest Management by Geoff Hultgren
3 pm: Woodenware by Keith Mealy
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Dec 13 2021
Meet the WCOB 2022 Board Members
Let’s welcome the 2022 Warren County Beekeepers Board. From Left to right:
Secretary, Pat Miller; Beatriz Woodall, Vice President; Geoff Hultgren, President; Rose DeJarnette, Web Manager; Alan DeJarnette, Treasurer.
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