Re: Indy Southside Beekeepers Club February Meeting Follow up items
Vickie TROUT -
Greetings Beekeepers!
The warm weather sure has bees a buzzin'! It's a good time to check your hives.
There are 4 follow up items from this week's meeting.
1. Daniel Karagory discussed pros, cons, ins and outs of having a website for the Club. Here are some links of examples that Daniel put together that we would like everyone to look at before the March meeting in order to have a good discussion and decide if we should move forward. A fuller explanation is below. Please click on the links and make some notes of what you like, what you don't like or suggestions for improvement.
Main page: https://website.cloud.karagory.com/wZmtDA7gZJ6GFmpbSZVM/
Update with many replies:
https://website.cloud.karagory.com/wZmtDA7gZJ6GFmpbSZVM/46.html Update with image repies(you can click on the images to make them bigger):
https://website.cloud.karagory.com/wZmtDA7gZJ6GFmpbSZVM/8.html Update with pdf attachment(again, click on the attachment document to
open it): https://website.cloud.karagory.com/wZmtDA7gZJ6GFmpbSZVM/21.html 2. The Club purchased a refractometer, stainless steel sieve and an uncapping tote from Meyer Bees of Illinois. These items will be available for club members' honey harvesting. Dave Meyer, owner, also sent some items for our Club. We are going to raffle these items off by selling tickets at the March meeting. Each item will be raffled separately. We'll the proceeds to the Club treasury. I attached his brochure. Be sure and check out his website. Here's what he donated.
3. Natalie Trisler is looking for a beekeeper to put hives at her farm located in the Rocklane area between Franklin Road and Red's Corner. If you are interested email her at n***@a***.net.
4. The topic of pollen patties came up at the meeting, check out Steve Pryor's email from today on spring pollen patties and queens. If you are interested in either, be sure to get back with him.
Get ready for a busy spring............see you in March.
Vickie
2024 Club Meeting Dates:
Mar 5, 2024
Apr 2, 2024
May 7, 2024
June 4, 2024
July 2, 2024
Aug 6, 2024
Sept 3, 2024
Oct 1, 2024
Nov 5, 2024
No Meeting in December
On 02/04/2024 10:09 PM EST Vickie TROUT <v***@c***.net> wrote:
This Month's Agenda includes:
1. Club Business -
* Treasurer's Report
* Club Purchases Report
* Beekeepers of Indiana (BoI) Jump Starter program update
* Club Website (see info below)
2. Discussion Topics-
Dead hives -
>Nuc purchased last year from another veteran beekeeper. Some frames have rotted and they broke during inspection. How soon in the spring should I replace those broken frames? Should I leave the broken frames out for the bees to feed on the left-over honey?
>When the nuc was placed on my new hive box last summer, there was some wax left over inside the nuc box. It later grew mold. Can I still recover the moldy wax to make candles?
>Last year I planted clover towards the back of my hives and around 30 yards from the hives to assist the bees. I even stopped mowing around that area to allow the bees to get acclimated to that source of nutrients. However, I did not see many bees grazing on the clover when I moved nearby. Should I move the bees closer to the clover
>In a brand-new colony, I placed the suppers on top of the brood frames once the bee population increased. However, I did not get any drawn out comb in the supers, none. Should I put the suppers on this year as early as April no matter whether I see its population flourishing, or not? What else can I do to the frames to encourage the bees to draw them out?
>After a warm day quick inspection, I have a dead colony. I have ordered replacement packaged bees for 04/13 delivery. How do I prepare for the new bees?
>There is some mold on the wooden frames. Do I clean it? What should I use to clean it?
>There is some mold on the wax. Should I leave for the bees to clean it?
>Some frames smell rancid. Should I scrape the comb and honey to plastic to start over?
>There are some dead pupae within some cells. Should I scrape them or leave them?
>I know that the first try doesn't always go so well, and I'll be buying two more nucs for this next season to try again. How can I figure out what exactly went wrong?
>There's also a lot of honey comb left in the hives, can I keep this honey to feed for the new nucs? How can I make sure it doesn't go bad first? (I don't own a freezer big enough for two deeps, so I need to figure out something)
- Open Q&A time
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Feb 6, 2024
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Apr 2, 2024
May 7, 2024
June 4, 2024
July 2, 2024
Aug 6, 2024
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Nov 5, 2024
No Meeting in December
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Club Website Summary:
Last month the topic of a Club website came up. Daniel Karagory spent some time thinking about how a website for the club would work, and
what that could look like and put together a demo. See the links below. The website is hosted on his website system as just a temporary
thing, but he says moving somewhere permanent will be easy.
Having a club website takes some time and effort. People expect websites to be full of accurate, up-to-date information, and that's
tricky. It takes a good writer to do updates to the website and even then, if there is a last-minute change to a meeting time updating a website isn't something to do on a phone. Plus, everybody in the club already gets updates through their emails anyways so Club members wouldn’t be checking the website. It is still important for the website to be up-to-date and keep records of all the meetings that have happened for people who need to catch up and for anybody not yet in the club.
Daniel suggests as a solution that the emails we already use be connected directly to a website. He made a special email account that can be added to the club email list and any emails sent to it will be processed, formatted, and sent directly to a website. With updates for club meeting times already sent to the mailing list, those will end up on the website automatically with no extra work. Any "reply-alls" to those emails will end up on the website as well, including any email attachments like images and documents. So, under his plan, anybody would be able to contribute to the website just by sending an email with anything you want included as a reply-all to any of the club update emails. Members will have to remember that any emails sent to that special address as a reply-all will end up being publicly posted on the website. So, be sure to not include information you don't want public -- if you do send something that you need removed, the website can be manually edited after the fact, so let somebody know quickly.
Main page: https://website.cloud.karagory.com/wZmtDA7gZJ6GFmpbSZVM/
Update with many replies:
https://website.cloud.karagory.com/wZmtDA7gZJ6GFmpbSZVM/46.html Update with image repies(you can click on the images to make them bigger):
https://website.cloud.karagory.com/wZmtDA7gZJ6GFmpbSZVM/8.html Update with pdf attachment(again, click on the attachment document to
open it): https://website.cloud.karagory.com/wZmtDA7gZJ6GFmpbSZVM/21.html