Show Me the Honey

by | Jul 13, 2015 | Honey

Many things about honey including nectar sources, the club extractor (soon to be updated and motorized), and videos on how to extract can be found can be found under HONEY on our website. Enter the honey show at the Prince William County Fair and even the Virginia...

Treatment Options

by | Jul 9, 2015 | News

Time to consider assessing Bee Health and Treatment Options.  Great resources are on our website here. Great talk by the NJ Apiarist on treatment options and testing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsG2QbUjsgA Note that during the talk he holds up three distinct...

Fall Management Talk Tue. Aug. 4th 2015

by | Jun 30, 2015 | Bee Meetings and Events

Save the date, Loudoun Beekeeper Association’s very own Jeff Pfoutz will present a talk on Fall Management.  This critical work in your colonies begins in August.  Don’t miss it!  Notes from year’s past can be found here. Tuesday, August 4th at 7...

Local beekeeper publishes book on Observation Hives

by | May 19, 2015 | News

Northern Virginia’s own Dr. Frank Linton publishes book on Observation Hives. The Observation Hive Handbook: Studying Honey Bees at Home.  by Frank Linton (Author), Clarence H Collison (Foreword). Keeping an observation hive year-round is an excellent means of...

Spring Dead Outs? What You Can Do

by | Mar 24, 2015 | Colony Health

Spring is time of hope for what’s possible.  It is also sometimes a time when we see dead outs in our apiaires. It can be daunting to understand what happened.  The Bee Inspector can be called to view dead outs.  You can also take advantage of many resources...

Installing Nucs and Packages

by | Mar 21, 2015 | Education

There is a lot of garbage out there on the internet but these two videos on installing a nuc and a package are pretty good.  Made by our friend in Maine, Erin Forbes of Overland Apiary. Here she installs a nuc (note she has a lit smoker in the background just in case)...