Wilson County Beekeepers Association

2020 August EC Meeting
2020-08-27 18:30 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Wilson County Agricultural Center, 1806 Goldsboro St SW, Wilson, NC, 27893, United States
EC team will be meeting at the Ag Center at 6:30pm. All member are welcome to come and watch the proceedings.

2020 Apiary - August 8th
2020-08-08 08:00 - 10:00 | Club Apiary, 4866 U.S. 117, Wilson, NC, 27893, United States
Good evening,

This Saturday at 8:00am we will be having another field day. We will be checking on one of the hives that had a questionable queen and some queen cells to see how they are doing and see if we need to do anything to help them.
Other than that we have some inspections to do, but in general the apiary is doing really well. We will also be checking to see if they have put away any honey to see if we think we might get another harvest in the fall.

Signup is here:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C044AAAAB2DA6FF2-wcba9

Hope to see you there.

Don’t forget to schedule your Certified Beekeeper test, I know you could probably all pass it tomorrow but if there is some interest in a virtual study group then let me know and I’ll see what we can come up with.

Thanks,
Magnus

2020 August Meeting
2020-08-06 19:00 - 21:00 | NC
Hi everyone! It’s that time again! Our monthly zoom meeting is this Thursday at 7:00 PM.

We will be having a presentation on Pollinators by Debbie Hamrick.
Some items on the agenda:
GAP update
National Honey Bee Day (sign up has been sent out)
Club Picnic September 19th (depending on Covid restrictions), other events are cancelled or virtual
Need members to take the certified test
Need at least 7 more members to join the NCSBA (nuc drawing to be held September 19th)
Time to start planning 2021 bee school
Apiary – going great, building in place (thank you Gene), discussing electricity, hopefully we will have some honey to extract this fall

Hope to see you all online on Thursday!

2020 Apiary - August 1st
2020-08-01 08:00 - 10:00 | Club Apiary, 4866 U.S. 117, Wilson, NC, 27893, United States
Good morning.

We are going to have another field day tomorrow, Saturday at 8:00am, and I hope to see many of you there.

Sign-up here:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C044AAAAB2DA6FF2-wcba8
Remember, if you want to take your practical exam for the Master Beekeeping Program we can administer those at the apiary.
You have to take the written test first, before taking the practical exam, and if you want to schedule your written test please contact one of us and we will be happy to help you get that set up.
More information here: https://www.ncbeekeepers.org/programs/mbp/certified
I highly recommend you look in to taking the test, it is not very hard and it will push you to study bees a little more than what you might otherwise have.
Thanks,
Magnus

2020 July EC Meeting
2020-07-30 18:30 - 20:30 | Wilson County Agricultural Center, 1806 Goldsboro St SW, Wilson, NC, 27893, United States

2020 Apiary - July 18th
2020-07-18 09:00 - 11:00 | Club Apiary, 4866 U.S. 117, Wilson, NC, 27893, United States
Good morning,

It is time again to check on our club apiary this weekend, there is no better way to learn how to keep bees than come out and join us there.

We are going to be there Saturday the 18th at 9:00am and I hope to see many of you there.

Some of the things we have on our list of things to do:

Hive inspections
Remove the shims used during the mite treatment
Verify that the new queens in hive 9 and 10 are doing well
Talk about bees

If you haven’t been out since we got the building delivered you’ll be able to check it out as well, it is going to be a great asset to the apiary.
Signup sheet is here:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C044AAAAB2DA6FF2-wcba6
Hope to see you there!
Magnus

2020 Apiary - July 11th
2020-07-11 09:00 - 11:00 | Club Apiary, 4866 U.S. 117, Wilson, NC, 27893, United States
Good evening good people,

There has been a lot going on in the apiary in the last few days, queens getting removed, new ones installed, a building is being delivered tomorrow and then on Saturday the 11th at 9:am we will have another field day.

It has been 2 weeks or so since we did our last inspection so it is time to make sure everything looks good. Please join us in the apiary and you will be able to get some more hands-on experience with bees.

The building will be delivered tomorrow so we may also move some of the spare equipment around to organize the apiary a little bit.

Signup sheet is here:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C044AAAAB2DA6FF2-wcba5

Hope to see you there,
Magnus

2020 Apiary – July 8th
2020-07-08 15:00 - 16:00 | Club Apiary, 4866 U.S. 117, Wilson, NC, 27893, United States
I hope you are having a wonderful 4th of July weekend with your family and friends (socially distanced of course). These are weird times with everything going on in the world so make sure you take care of those near and dear to you.

As you might have guessed, there is no field day today, but there will be a short one with Greg on Wednesday the 8th at 3:00pm.

Like we talked about at the meeting, the Wednesday field day is to install the replacement queens and maybe an inspection if something doesn’t look right from the outside of the hives.
It is contingent on Greg being able to secure a queen and that the weather is good.

If you are interested in joining him for a brief field day, please use the signup form below.
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C044AAAAB2DA6FF2-wcba4

2020 July Meeting
2020-07-02 19:00 - 21:00 | NC
Hi everyone! Well unfortunately we still are not allowed to have a meeting…so ZOOM it is. Below is the link to join the meeting on Thursday, July 2, 2020. The meeting will start at 7:00 PM but you can log on a little earlier. Please be patient – the meetings are a little difficult online but we are trying to find ways to tweak them and make them a little smoother.

We are trying to have a program this month – and the months following since it is looking like we won’t be back in the agricultural center anytime soon. Bruce is trying to have EMS with us this Thursday night to discuss anaphylaxis and heat related issues – we all know just how hot it is now in a bee suit! He will find out today if that is possible. With or without the program we have things to discuss. The club apiary is rolling along great! Honey was harvested and extracted, and will be bottled soon for sale. We have a storage building now, just waiting to get it moved to the apiary. This will be such a big help!

We also are participating in the Golden Achievement Program. The Golden Achievement Program (GAP) is intended to be high recognition of the efforts of a chapter and its members to advancing the practice, science and community of beekeeping through the year. We will receive a $300 for meeting the minimum requirements. We are struggling with our requirements since the pandemic. But we can catch up! Below is the link to all the information about the program. Please look it over and if there is anything you can contribute please let Greg know.
http://www.ncbeekeepers.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/GAP_Guide.pdf

Also – we need everyone to join the NCSBA if possible. It will earn us GAP points. Look for an email soon about a raffle we are planning for everyone that has joined or joins this year. Raffle drawing will be in December at our Christmas party (providing we can actually have a party), either way we will raffle off a NUC…so join the NCSBA for your chance to win. There are a lot of reasons to join – please look at their website! https://www.ncbeekeepers.org/

Magnus has updated our website – take a look at it!
https://wilsonbeekeepers.org/

There’s also lots of information shared on our facebook page- be sure to join that as well if you haven’t already 🙂

I sure miss seeing everyone and being able to socialize before and after the meeting! I hope everyone is healthy and safe and that things get back to normal – sooner than later!

2020 Extracting Honey
2020-06-27 09:00 - 13:00 | Wilson County Agricultural Center, 1806 Goldsboro St SW, Wilson, NC, 27893, United States
Hi everyone! This Saturday, June 27th, from 9:00am – 1:00pm (time may be adjusted), we will be having a honey extraction class using the club’s 6 frame manual extractor. We have 6 supers to extract. This is a fun experience if you have never participated in extraction before and also great for those with experience as well. We will be doing this at the Wilson County Agriculture Center.
Due to the Covid-19 restrictions there is a 10 person limit (including the instructors) allowed in the room at a time. Please wear a mask if you need to. Bring hand sanitizer. If anyone has disposable gloves that would be great. We will all do our best to be safe!
We have created 4 different time slots, to allow as many people as possible to participate. Depending on the number of participants we may shorten the length of the class. So please try to fill in the earlier slots first if possible. Below is a link to sign up.
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/70A0B49ABA82DA1FA7-honey

2020 June EC Meeting
2020-06-25 18:30 - 19:30 | Wilson County Agricultural Center, 1806 Goldsboro St SW, Wilson, NC, 27893, United States

2020 Apiary - June 20th
2020-06-20 09:00 - 11:00 | Club Apiary, 4866 U.S. 117, Wilson, NC, 27893, United States
It is time again for another apiary day. The weather looks a little dodgy, but sometimes the bees set the schedule and we have to work with what we have.

We are going to be there on Saturday the 20th at 9:00am.

Here is the link to the signup form for this week:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C044AAAAB2DA6FF2-wcba3

We are going to be pulling honey from a couple of hives, so if you have not seen that done yet that will be something new for you.
There will also be an opportunity for us to go through some of the hives to make sure that everything looks good. If you have never been through a hive before, this is the perfect opportunity to see what the process is like, and if you have, there are always new things that you can learn. That is one of the neat things about keeping bees to me, it is not something you will ever master, there is always something new to learn.
Hope to see you all out there this weekend.

2020 Apiary - June 13th
2020-06-13 08:00 - 10:00 | Club Apiary, 4866 U.S. 117, Wilson, NC, 27893, United States
Last time we were out at the apiary we treated for mites so we had to skip this past weekend because of that, but now it is time again to head out there and to continue the mite treatment that we started and inspect some of the hives.

With the weather being what it is, we may have to dodge a little bit of rain but our best chance looks to be Saturday the 13th at 8:00am.

I know everybody can’t come on Saturdays and vice versa for Sundays so if the weather cooperates we will see about doing the next visit on a Sunday.

We have another signup form to track how many people are planning on visiting:

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C044AAAAB2DA6FF2-wcba2

Same rules as last time, we do everything we can to keep people safe and if you have a mask we encourage people to wear them.

We encourage you to wear whatever protective equipment you need to make you feel comfortable, nobody is going to shame anyone for wearing protection.
You should have at least have a veil to cover your head, getting stung in the face is not much fun..

If you just got bees or are getting ready to get bees, make sure you come out and visit with us at the apiary, there is no better way to learn to work bees than to do it in a group and on someone else’s bees.

I really hope I see you there this weekend.

2020 June Meeting
2020-06-04 18:30 - 20:30 | NC
We will be having our meeting this Thursday, June 4th at 7:00 PM. Below are the instructions for the zoom meeting. Please try to log on, many things to share with everyone!
Hope everyone is staying safe and enjoying their bees! The club apiary is busy! Also, we have a storage building in the works. 🙂
I sure hope in July we can see each other again in person!

Hopefully everyone is holding up to the best of their abilities during these times. Below is the link. I would recommend trying the link before next Thursday to download the zoom program. Once in, it will ask you how about audio. Click “join with computer audio”. once you do this, you should be able to see others in the virtual meeting “room”. There will be an microphone icon in the bottom left corner, this will mute/unmute your audio. I would recommend you remain muted until someone calls on you. This will cut down on background noise and confusion. For those that do not have a web camera, you will be able to see everyone else, but we will not be able to see you. I will log on about 6 PM that night to walk people through the specifics how to use it once you get on. Click or Copy and paste the link below into your browser.

2020 Apiary - May 31st
2020-05-31 08:00 - 11:00 | Club Apiary, 4866 U.S. 117, Wilson, NC, 27893, United States
Thank you everybody that came out to the apiary last week, I think we had a good apiary visit and everybody got a chance to try to find eggs in a frame with black plastic foundation.
It is already time for us to plan our next visit. With the way the weather is looking, this weekend we are going to meet on Sunday the 31st at 8:00am.

Last week we did a mite count on two hives and one of them had 6 mites, which comes out to 2% and that is our threshold for treating.
Since we have honey supers on some of the hives, those will be treated with Formic Pro and the other hives without honey supers will get a ApiGuard.

We have another signup form to track how many people are planning on visiting:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C044AAAAB2DA6FF2-wcba1

Same rules as last time, we do everything we can to keep people safe and if you have a mask we encourage people to wear them.

I hope I see you there this weekend.

2020 Apiary - May 23rd
2020-05-23 09:00 - 11:00 | Club Apiary, 4866 U.S. 117, Wilson, NC, 27893, United States
Time flies, by now I’m sure several of you already have your bees and probably have some questions.

There is no better way to learn than to do it together in the apiary.

The apiary committee talked about it and we are going to try to start some limited field days.

Even though the weather during the this week seems pretty wet, it looks like it will clear up in time for the weekend.

In order to keep everybody safe we are going to limit the apiary days to 8 members and to try to accommodate everybody we are going to meet both on Saturday and Sunday this first time and depending on the interest we may adjust it going forward.

We have created a signup form so that we can coordinate who is showing up on what day.
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C044AAAAB2DA6FF2-wcba

If you are planning on attending, please make sure you sign up so that we can limit the number of participants and stay safe.

If you have some kind of face mask I would encourage you to wear that, and as always, make sure you bring your normal beekeeping protective equipment.

Hope to see some of you this weekend!

2020 May Meeting
2020-05-07 18:30 - 20:30 | NC
Hopefully everyone is holding up to the best of their abilities during these times. To help practice social distancing, the Executive Committee has decided that we will hold our first virtual meeting. Please understand that this is a first for all of us and that there could be some issues. We will work through them as they become apparent. Below is the link for the May meeting this Thursday.

A few Housekeeping things for Zoom: I would recommend trying the link before next Thursday to download the zoom program. Once in, it will ask you about audio. Click “join with computer audio”. once you do this, you should be able to see others in the virtual meeting “room”. There will be an microphone icon in the bottom left corner, this will mute/unmute your audio. I would recommend you remain muted until someone calls on you. This will cut down on background noise and confusion. For those that do not have a web camera, you will be able to see everyone else, but we will not be able to see you. I will log on about 6:30 PM that night to walk people through the specifics how to use it once you get on. Click or Copy and paste the link below into your browser.

If you have any questions, just let one of the EC members know, and we will be glad to assist you.

2020 April Meeting
2020-04-02 18:30 - 20:30 | Wilson County Agricultural Center, 1806 Goldsboro St SW, Wilson, NC, 27893, United States
I would like to say welcome to all the new members! Our club is really growing! I hope you all plan to attend our monthly meetings and participate in the field days in our club apiary. I send meeting reminders and the apiary committee will send out notices about field days. Since our club started in 2018 it has really grown and became a great learning tool to all of us beekeepers. Any time you have questions or concerns please share!

Meetings are the first Thursday night of each month at the agricultural center in Wilson unless otherwise noted. We have refreshments at 6:30 and the meeting starts at 7:00.

Due to the current situation with the virus, we have decided to cancel our April 2nd meeting. We certainly hate to do this but for the safety of all our members we feel it is best. Look for emails with club information; and field days will obviously still be occurring. The bees don’t stop just because of the virus. The committee will be working on a schedule with a limited amount of participation at each field day. Hopefully everyone can get an opportunity to participate though, we just may have to take turns!

I hope all that attended the class last Saturday had a really great time. I understand it was a great day with a lot of wonderful presenters and information.

Hope to see all of you very soon. Stay safe and healthy.

2020 Apiary - March 28th
2020-03-28 09:30 - 11:30 | Club Apiary, 4866 U.S. 117, Wilson, NC, 27893, United States
Time has come for our first apiary day, with the COVID-19 virus going around we would like to postpone it but unfortunately the bees can’t wait. That is one thing that you will learn when keeping bees, it is just like any other livestock, sometimes you have to do things on their schedule.

I will be picking up the package that Cotton Boll Pollinators donated to the club on Saturday the 28th.

We will take all the precautions we can but if you have any doubt whether you should go, then please stay at home and stay safe.

Guy Collins at Cotton Boll Pollinators is doing everything he can as well to stay safe during this process. Here is a excerpt from the email he sent out earlier this week:

For those of you wishing to pickup your purchases as previously planned:, there will be a few adjustments. I will be taking all of the necessary precautions regarding the COVID-19 situation, during my travel and in all phases of handling and transporting your purchases prior to, and throughout the pick-up date, including social distancing, the use of sanitary gloves during gas stops, sanitary wipes of your purchases/hands etc. and avoiding contact with anyone. During pick-up, I am asking that we stagger pick-up times, so that no more than one customer is here at a time. I am also asking that all customers remain in their vehicle, and we will load your purchases into your vehicle for you. During this process, I will be avoiding direct contact with you (no offense), and will wear rubber gloves that will be sanitized before and after I open your vehicle door. Additionally, your purchases will be wiped down with sanitary wipes once again before they are loaded into your vehicle. If you plan on transporting bee packages inside your vehicle, please bring a clean towel or some sort of seat cover and a way to secure them during transport. For folks wanting to transport bees in a truck-bed or otherwise open system, please provide some sort of wind/rain protection for your bees, and any straps or tie-downs needed to secure all of your purchases during transport. Remember that the bees should be kept cool and well-ventilated during transport, while also being protected from wind and rain. Lastly, If you are not feeling well in the days leading up to the pick-up dates, or have been in close contact with anyone not feeling well, I ask that you contact me via phone and NOT come to our location for pick-up. In these cases, I will personally deliver your purchases to you over the weekend and will leave them at a predetermined location so that we can avoid contact with myself or other customers.

As you can see, he is doing everything he can in order to keep everybody safe, props to him for doing all that.

As far as gatherings go I feel like this will be reasonably safe, we are outside, we can maintain distance between us and we are all wearing some amount of protective equipment. Also, what I said at the meeting about the fact that nobody is going to shame anyone for wearing protective equipment, that also applies to face masks, if you have one and want to wear it, please do so.

I will be picking up the package at 9:00am in Bailey, and if everything goes smoothly i will be at the apiary around 9:30am on Saturday the 28th.

The weather looks to be nice, so at least we do not have to worry about that.

Our club apiary is located at a pump station near Black Creek, just south of Wilson.
If you are on 301, you will turn on to 117 and drive 2.2 miles and there will be a short dirt road on the left. You will see a small building at the end and there is a cable blocking the road. I have a key and so do the rest of the apiary committee.

If you have any questions or concerns, please email me at magnus@ullberg.us or text or call me at (252) 299-1471 (please leave a voicemail).

If you are able to come we’d love to see you there, but if you don’t feel comfortable coming, please don’t feel bad about that, we will have plenty of apiary days once this virus clears up.

2020 Beginner Beekeeping Class
2020-03-14 08:00 - 17:00 | Wilson County Agricultural Center, 1806 Goldsboro St SW, Wilson, NC, 27893, United States

2020 March Meeting
2020-03-11 18:30 - 20:30 | Wilson County Agricultural Center, 1806 Goldsboro St SW, Wilson, NC, 27893, United States
Our next meeting is March 11th at the Wilson Agriculture Center. Refreshments are at 6:30 with the meeting starting at 7:00. If you are able, please bring a snack or drink to share. We will be having door prizes. Please donate items, they do not have to be bee related.
A few items on the agenda:

Club Apiary update
T-shirts will be available for purchase this Saturday at the bee school and any time after – they are $15 & $20 with a pocket.
If you have not paid your membership dues for 2019 – they are past due!
Annual picnic will be May 9th – mark your calendars
GAP update
Fundraiser ideas:
Club selling honey
Golf tournament in September

Raffling off a hive at our picnic
Don’t forget we are having the bee school on this Saturday March 14th – if you haven’t already signed up you should! Will be a very good class that we all can benefit from. Call the Ag center to sign up 252-237-0111
Dave Bradley will be giving a program on mead.
Any thoughts, suggestions or questions – please share with the members or reach out to one of the officers at any time.
Don’t forget to check out our website – wilsonbeekeepers.org
Please like the Facebook page – Wilson County Beekeepers Association – if you haven’t already. Feel free to share your experiences on the page.
See you tomorrow!

2020 February Meeting
2020-02-06 18:30 - 20:30 | Wilson County Agricultural Center, 1806 Goldsboro St SW, Wilson, NC, 27893, United States
Wilson County Beekeepers Association Members:

Our next meeting is February 6th at the Wilson Agriculture Center. Refreshments are at 6:30 with the meeting starting at 7:00. If you are able, please bring a snack

or drink to share. We will be having door prizes. Please donate items; they do not have to be bee related.

We have many exciting things coming up this year. We had a great year in 2019 and are looking forward to making 2020 even better.

A few items on the agenda:

●Club Apiary – 1st Field Day is tentatively scheduled for February 8th, bees are doing great, lots to consider going forward, our apiary committee members are working hard to get ready for this year

●T-shirts will be on sale soon

●If you have not paid your membership dues for 2019 – they are due! Also, we encourage you to become a member of the State Beekeepers Association as well!

●Golden Achievement Program (GAP) – Greg Wolgemuth will be discussing this and explaining the requirements

●Proposed change to the by-laws

●Apiary funding – supplies, meds and sugar

●Advanced Beekeeping Strategies class – July 11th

Do not forget we are having the bee school on March 14th – if you have not already signed up you should! Will be a very good class that we all can benefit from. Call the ag center to sign up 252-237-0111. RSVP to my email address if you’re planning to attend. We would like to get an idea of how many will be attending.

Any thoughts, suggestions or questions – please share with the members or reach out to one of the officers at any time.

Don’t forget to check out our website – wilsonbeekeepers.org

Please like the Facebook page – Wilson County Beekeepers Association – if you haven’t already. Feel free to share your experiences on the page.

See you on Thursday!

2020 January Meeting
2020-01-02 18:30 - 20:30 | Wilson County Agricultural Center, 1806 Goldsboro St SW, Wilson, NC, 27893, United States
Hope everyone had a great Christmas and Happy New Year! Our January meeting is this Thursday, January 2, 2020 at the agricultural center. We will have snacks and drinks at 6:30 (please bring something to share if you can) and the meeting starts at 7:00.
There will be a program on spring management.
Also, we will be discussing several things including: the apiary and where we are headed into the new year

a storage unit for the apiary
t-shirts
the upcoming bee school
club dues are now due
NCSBA dues are also due (officers must be a member)

2019 December Meeting
2019-12-05 06:30 - 20:30 | Wilson County Agricultural Center, 1806 Goldsboro St SW, Wilson, NC, 27893, United States
Hope everyone is doing well and your bees are ready for the winter! Our Christmas party is coming up!! Here is the link for the sign up and all the information:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/70A0B49ABA82DA1FA7-christmas1
Thank you to everyone for helping to make our club such a success!
See you on December 5th!!

2019 October Meeting
2019-11-07 18:30 - 20:30 | Wilson Fairgrounds – Building B, 2331 US-301, Wilson, NC, 27893, United States
IMPORTANT: Please note the change in venue (see below)
Our next meeting is November 7th at the Wilson Fairgrounds – Building B.
Refreshments are at 6:30 with the meeting starting at 7:00.
If you are able, please bring a snack to share.
We will be having door prizes.
Please donate items, they do not have to be bee related.
A few items on the agenda:

Our 2nd beekeeper school
A recap of the Whirligig Festival, the booth at Great Gardens Fall-A-Fair
Elections of officers and executive committee members for 2020, appoint program coordinator
December 5th meeting – we will be having a potluck Christmas party, an email will be sent soon for everyone to sign up for what they are bringing
Discuss possibly buying some educational equipment (so we don’t have to borrow)
Apiary

We will have a program on Swedish beekeeping
Any thoughts, suggestions or questions – please share with the members or reach out to one of the officers at any time.
See you on Thursday!

2019 September Meeting (rescheduled)
2019-09-25 18:30 - 20:30 | Wilson County Agricultural Center, 1806 Goldsboro St SW, Wilson, NC, 27893, United States
Due to the last hurricane… the last meeting and instructional topic extracting honey had to be cancelled.
That class has been rescheduled for Wednesday evening of next week at 6:30 pm….sept. the 25th. At the ag center where we have our regular scheduled meetings.
We will be using a 4 frame extractor that belongs to Beddingfield High School.
I will bring several different options for decapping the frames for everyone to experiment with. I am donating the two supers to be extracted and the club can bottle it and sell, It should produce about 5 gallons of honey.
Any questions prior to class just let me know. Hope to see everyone there.

2019 September Meeting
2019-09-05 18:30 - 20:30 | Wilson County Agricultural Center, 1806 Goldsboro St SW, Wilson, NC, 27893, United States
We will be using a 4 frame extractor that belongs to Beddingfield High School.
I will bring several different options for decapping the frames for everyone to experiment with. I am donating the two supers to be extracted and the club can bottle it and sell, It should produce about 5 gallons of honey.
Any questions prior to class just let me know. Hope to see everyone there.

2019 August Meeting
2019-08-01 18:30 - 20:30 | Wilson County Agricultural Center, 1806 Goldsboro St SW, Wilson, NC, 27893, United States
Hi everyone!
We will be having our regular monthly meeting this Thursday at the Wilson County Agricultural Center. If you missed our July picnic you missed a great time and some fabulous food. We had plenty of left over barbecue so this Thursday we will be enjoying that for our pre-meeting feast! Plan to come and enjoy a sandwich and some snacks at 6:30 before we get down to business at 7:00. Here is the link to the sign up if you can help out with the food and drinks.
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/70A0B49ABA82DA1FA7-beekeepers
Our club is going great. The apiary has really done well since we installed the packages and nucs. If you have not participated in the field days you really should consider going! It is very good learning tool. Please contact Bruce, Greg or Magnus for more information on the apiary.
We will have a presentation from David Cuddleback on anaphylaxis and heat related emergencies. We all know just how hot it is in a bee suit this time of year! Please hydrate and be careful!
See you all on Thursday!

2019 July Picnic
2019-07-13 18:30 - 20:30 | Wilson County Agricultural Center, 1806 Goldsboro St SW, Wilson, NC, 27893, United States
We will not be having a regular meeting this month. The club is doing great and the apiary is coming along nicely! Hope to have some type of storage unit out there soon! If you haven’t been out to the apiary and need more info please email Greg at wolgemuthgl@aol.com.
We’re having a July picnic on the 13th. Hope you all can make it and enjoy a day with the club!! Click on the link below to rsvp and sign up to bring something:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/70A0B49ABA82DA1FA7-wilson

2019 June Meeting
2019-06-06 18:30 - 20:30 | Wilson County Agricultural Center, 1806 Goldsboro St SW, Wilson, NC, 27893, United States
We are having our monthly meeting this Thursday at the Wilson County Ag Center. Refreshments at 6:30 (please bring a snack or drink to share) followed by our meeting at 7:00.
We will have an “Update from the NC State Apiculture Program” by David Tarpy. He will take questions after the lecture.
We will get an update on our club apiary, discuss the need for a storage unit at the apiary and also plan our July picnic.
