A Branch of the British Columbia Honey Producers' Association
North Okanagan Bee Club Minutes from Bee Club meetings
Hive Irradiation If you have combs from questionable sources or do not know its history. Have had brood diseases like AFB, EFB, Chalkbrood, Sac Brood, Nosema, the new mystery disease (Dead bees look wet and black in colour) Brood frame sterilization is an 100 % effective way to kill these viruses and spoors. Our area Read More …
Hive Irradiation
We are still processing the John Nelson estate bee equipment. We feel club members should have first choice so will first give the info to our club members and then in a week or so put it on the website and/or facebook. First item is the pickup which is being stored at Ingrams (Okanagan Beekeeping Read More …
Keith welcomed all to the meeting, and indicated some hand sanitizer for everyone’s use. Any newcomers who are interested in being added to the email list should go to the club web page and send a message to James Atzesberger. He then introduced Tim Boumeester, who is the Bee Inspector, covering the area from Penticton Read More …
North Okanagan Beekeepers minutes March 16th 2020
NEW PLACE, NEW TIME, an early meeting in the Club Bee Yard. Unfortunately, due to Covid-19 the College is not available for us to host a meeting at this time. In light of this and with the success of having had meet ups while doing hive inspections and working the bees, we have decided to Read More …
Saturday Aug 29th Mite Day. The North Okanagan Beekeepers Club has an Apiary that we set up in conjunction with the Culinary Arts Department of Okanagan College. This Saturday Aug 29th, 2020 we are planning another inspection of the apiary. We need to apply Varroa mite treatments to the hives in preparation for winter. We Read More …
This Sunday Aug 23rd, The North Okanagan Beekeepers Club has an Apiary, which we set up in conjunction with the Culinary Arts Department of Okanagan College. This coming Sunday Aug 23rd, 2020 we are planning another inspection of the apiaries hives. We need to pull the honey supers from the hives, in preparation for Read More …
Need to get some lids from Richardson Packaging out of Surrey for the college apiary. Any one going or coming from there in the next week? Or is there any interest in putting in a combined order as the price gets cheaper with the larger the order. I would be looking at 500g and 1Kg Read More …