Walworth County Beekeepers Club

01/27/2020

02/21/2017

There is no Walworth County Beekeepers Club meeting tonight. We will instead hope to see you at our Michael Bush speaking event this weekend in East Troy.

04/12/2016

One small step for the chemical industry, one giant leap for the honeybee! http://www.sacbee.com/news/business/article71302242.html

Garden-care giant Ortho said Tuesday it will stop using a class of chemicals widely believed to harm bees.

03/06/2016

Have you had the privilege of hearing Marla Spivak speak?

Honeybees have thrived for 50 million years. So why, nine years ago, did colonies start dying en masse?

02/15/2016

Congrats to our very own club member Dan O'leary, of Honey Valley Apiary, for airing on WI Foodie!

Kyle visits the Michael Fields Agricultural Institute in East Troy, touring the grounds and sitting down to a white-linen dinner prepared by Tyler Sailsbery of the Black Sheep. This episode also profiles Dan O’Leary, who has been caring for the bees of Michael Fields for 15 years.

01/08/2016

The agency says it may place new restritctions on the chemical by year's end.

11/18/2015

And trees... Bee friendly trees will provide huge amounts of habitat and food for the bees.

11/05/2015

Bees that eat the legs off mites! I want some...http://www.psmag.com/nature-and-technology/bees-bred-with-some-special-genes-are-killing-it

Backyard breeders are creating a new kind of hero honeybee—one that chomps off the legs of mites and saves the hive.

09/16/2015

Another great FREE webinar from Ohio State. http://u.osu.edu/beelab/what-newbees-need-to-know/

What Newbees Need to Know What Newbees Need to Know webinar with Alex Zomchek, September 16, 2016, 55 minutes. What NewBees Need to Know – PDF handout

09/13/2015

Thank you to all the folks that take action to help educate our communities about honeybees and their needs for health and survival. http://www.beeseech.org/

Bee populations are plummeting, but you can reverse this trend by planting bee-loving flowers that provide the nectar and pollen bees need to survive.

08/17/2015

Anyone else out there already a member of the American Beekeeping Federation? You will find great information on their website, including member perks like access to valuable educational webinar recordings. http://www.abfnet.org/

The 2016 American Beekeeping Federation Conference & Tradeshow will be held in Ponte Vedra Beach (Jacksonville) Florida at the Sawgrass Marriott Golf Resort & Spa, January 5-9, 2016.Join us in sunny Florida for Palm Trees & Healthy Bees - where we'll focus on improving bee colony health and sustaina…

08/10/2015

Lookin good guys. State Fair WHPA Honey booth manned by club members.

07/30/2015

Useful info for newbees.

Once you have finished extracting your honey, how do you clean your extractor? This video will show you the best way to clean your extractor. We hope you fin...

07/25/2015

Thanks East Troy Honey for sharing the directions for a Styrofoam Nuc box at last weeks meeting. Nucs are a valuable resource for a beekeeper.http://www.michiganbees.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Styrofoam_Nuc_20100813.pdf

06/28/2015

Technology can be so cool. This shows the first 21 days of the honeybee developing from egg to insect. You can even see the mites inside some of the cells.

06/22/2015

A successful educational event at the 39th Annual Walworth County Farm Bureau Dairy Breakfast. Our club's new educational display turned out pretty good, don't you think? Thank you to Yunker Industries for donating the printing and materials. http://www.yunker.com/index.html

06/17/2015

Thanks to our State Honey Queen for visiting and speaking at our club meeting this June.

Kim presenting in the Walworth County Beekeepers Club tonight in Elkhorn, WI. Great presentation - was very informative and generated a lot of discussions - from beekeeping to bee diseases, from pollination to different types of honey, and the effects of pesticides, monoculture...