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Presidents Report
from Blake Shook
other, lets not focus on what we cant control, but put our efforts
into making sure our bees are fed properly, have varroa under
control, etc. Despite the rain, I still believe this will end up a
pretty decent year for honey production in Texas. Perhaps not a
record production year, but the rain has really helped extend the
honey flow, and keep flowers blooming. Some of my best hives
have brought in 10-12lbs per day when the weather was good!
Sometimes when we have years this wet it can affect the moisture
content of your honey. I would suggest buying a refractometer to
make sure your crop is at least 19.5% moisture or below.
As many of you most likely know by now, our honey
exemption bill has passed both the house and senate with no
resistance, and overwhelming support. The senate vote was 30-0!
The bill is (at the time this article was written) heading to the
governors desk for signature, and we have no reason to think it
will not be signed. A huge thank-you to Leesa Hyder, and many
others who have worked to make this possible for small scale
beekeepers.
I have to get back into the bee yardI look forward to seeing
many of you at our summer clinic in just a few weeks!
In This Issue
Presidents Report..............................................................3
Vice Presidents Report.......................................................4
The Buds and the Bees.........................................................6
Making Increase................................................................. 8
Beekeeping Tourism - Part II.............................................12
TAIS Report.....................................................................18
FAA Approval of Drones...................................................18
Honey Bee Lab Report .....................................................20
Texas Honey Queen Report..............................................22
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How your hive location may determine the flowers your bees forage.
Most of us remember the classic Aesops Fable entitled The
City Mouse and the Country Mouse. The Country Mouse visits
her cousin, The City Mouse, and must decide whether to stay in the
lap of city luxury or go back to her own simple, homespun country
lifestyle. While thousands of versions of this timeless fable have
evolved world-wide, one theme is consistent both city and country
mice have lifestyle advantages and disadvantages.
Like Aesops mice, both country and city honey bees have lifestyle
or hive-style advantages and disadvantages. As I speak to groups
across Texas, I always ask for a show of hands from those who keep
bees in rural areas and those in urban areas. Rural beekeepers are
always the majority, sometimes 80% of the class. But the popularity
of urban beekeeping is growing rapidly, possibly due to the local food
movement and concern over disappearing bees. Urban beekeepers
sometimes view themselves as disadvantaged. But thats not always
the case.
her familys grass lawn where weeds were permitted to grow. But
these days, she said theres no life in our lawns.
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box back into the breeder hive and began the four-day wait to see
if the eggs would hatch and whether the nurse bees would feed
them with royal jelly.
Day 5 of our queen-rearing experiment dawned clear and
warmer. We steeled ourselves for the worst case scenario, nonacceptance by the nurse bees, and thought about starting again
from scratch. However, we were elated to find nurse bees feeding
about 40 hatched eggs! We replace the Nicot box frame in the
first, breeder, hive and removed the queen from the second, cellbuilder, hive. We set up a 5-frame nuc and added the queen from
the cell-builder hive, three frames of emerging brood and nurse
bees, one frame of pollen, and one of honey. Since the cell-builder
hive was queenless, we planned to wait about 2 hours for the bees
Queen in Nicot
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Welcome Back! After last months armchair Apitour of the Ukraine, we will now be moving on to the
beautiful and innovative beekeeping country of Slovenia.
When my husband and I went to Slovenia in 2006, the
concepts of Apitourism and destination weddings didnt even
exist. We traveled the old fashioned way. We bought some guide
books, got a map, made some hotel reservations, rented a car, and
headed out for the open road. We didnt even know that there
were more kinds of bees than Italian and African in those days.
But this little country has enlightened my whole way of traveling
and beekeeping since then.
Hopefully, after you read this article it will help you to realize
at least three major things that I think Slovenia has done for
beekeeping: The first is to promote the Carniolan Bee; second,
to develop apitourism and third to promote apitherapy, both
of which are two new ways beekeepers can add value to their
beekeeping activities and income to their bottom line.
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Biodiversity
Slovenia signed the Rio Convention on Biological Diversity
on 13 June 1992, and became a party to the convention on 9
July 1996. It has subsequently produced a National Biodiversity
Strategy and Action Plan, which was received by the convention
on 30 May 2002.
Slovenia is distinguished by an exceptionally wide
variety of habitats, due to the contact of geological units and
biogeographical regions, but also due to human influences.
Around 12.5% of the territory is protected with different
protection categories, and 35.5% within the Natura 2000
ecological network. Despite this, because of pollution and
environmental degradation, diversity has been in decline.
The forests covering 58.5% of the territory are an important
natural resource, but logging is kept to a minimum, as Slovenians
also value their forests for the preservation of natural diversity,
for enriching the soil and cleansing the water and air, for the
social and economic benefits of recreation and tourism, and for
the natural beauty they give to the Slovenian landscape. In the
interior of the country are typical Central European forests,
predominantly oak and beech. In the mountains, spruce, fir, and
pine are more common. Pine trees also grow on the Kras plateau,
although only one third of the region is now covered by pine
forest. The lime/linden tree, also common in Slovenian forests, is a
national symbol. The tree line is at 5,575 to 5,900 ft.
In the Alps, flowers such as Daphne blagayana, various
gentians (Gentiana clusii, Gentiana froelichi), Primula auricula,
edelweiss (the symbol of Slovene mountaineering), Cypripedium
calceolus, Fritillaria meleagris (snakes head fritillary), and Pulsatilla
grandis are found.
Slovenia has many plants of ethnobotanically useful groups.
Of 59 known species of ethnobotanical importance, some species
such as Aconitum napellus, Cannabis sativa and Taxus baccata are
not allowed to be collected and used as per the Official Gazette of
the Republic of Slovenia.
The country contains 24,000 animal species, accounting for
1% of the worlds organisms despite its small size (0.004% of the
Earths surface area).] According to recent estimates, Slovenia
also has up to 50 wolves and about 450 brown bears. There are
thirteen domestic animals native to Slovenia. Among these are
the Carniolan honey bee, and the Lipizzan horse.
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Modern day Slovenia was formed from the borders of the original
Austrian Hapsburg lands. The Carniolan bee came from the
region of Lower Carniola (2C) in Carniola. However, there are
also many Carniolan bees in the Gorenjska or Upper Carniola
region as well (2A). Slovenes are so proud of their bee that they
had it patented.
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Considered to be gentle and non-aggressive
Can be kept in populated areas
Sense of orientation considered better than the Italian
honey bee
Less drifting of bees from one hive to a neighboring hive
When compared to the Italian honey bee, they are not as
prone to rob honey
Able to overwinter in smaller numbers of winter bees
Honey stores are conserved
Able to quickly adapt to changes in the environment
Better for areas with long winters
Fast rhythm of brood production and then brood rearing
reduction when available forage decreases
Low use of propolis
Resistant to brood diseases
For areas with strong spring nectar flow and early
pollination
Forage earlier in the morning and later in the evening,
and on cool, wet days
Workers live up to 12% longer than other breeds
Weaknesses
More prone to swarming if overcrowded
Low ability to thrive in hot summer weather
Strength of broodnest more dependent on availability of
pollen
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Overall, we received impressively positive comments on our
activity, and were encouraged to provide similar training to other
interested beekeepers in the future. Even if Sue is unable to join
us in 2016, I am really hoping that our own staff will be able to
provide additional training next spring.
I am off tomorrow (29 May) to the Caribbean Island of
Dominica, where I will be a co-instructor of a Tropical Ecology
course that has been taught by colleagues in the Departments of
Entomology and Wildlife and Fisheries for over 20 years. It turns
out that there is a beekeepers cooperative on the island, and we
are going to be working with them and a student from the course
on a project looking at the levels of Nosema in their managed
honey bee colonies. So I expect to be able to return to the United
States with some worker samples from Dominica to add to our
knowledge of Nosema levels in other Caribbean countries.
Lastly, things are gearing up for the Texas Beekeepers
Association Summer Clinic in June, and staff at the Rangel lab
will be giving four different talks during the event, so we hope
to see you there! Thank you for your continuing support and as
always, if you want to reach me please email me at jrangel@tamu.
edu, or follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/
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Did anyone else get a little tired of all this rain? Probably
anyone and everyone who has work that needed to be done! Too
much of a good thing is bad and this pertains to rain as well. The
fields at my house and surrounding areas are very muddy and
almost every pond is overflowing. Dont get me wrong though,
I am so grateful for this rain and know it will benefit us all year
long. But rain is not the ideal weather for working bees and, as
this is our busy time of year, it has been such a pain working hives
and has even come to a standstill for many of you. Because of the
damage that water has done to the soil, plants and equipment, we
have had to work in deep mud ponds, and work even harder in
making sure our bees have food to eat. (They have not been able
to forage).
As I attend my events I try to bring bees to my presentations,
and it has been a real struggle to work around this rain when
filling or empting my observation hive. But this spring season is
coming to an end and summer weather will soon be upon us!
How has all this rain in Texas really affected our honey bees?
First, how does it affect our crops and plants? Extremes are hardly
ever good. So whether we are talking about extreme drought or
flash flooding there will always be negatives. So lets look at a
few positives of the rain; plants need water to grow. With all the
H2O we have got recently our fall crops and flowers should be
abundant! Stock ponds, watering holes, and lakes are filled and
running over which allows for adequate watering for the foraging
honey bees.
Now the negatives; the rain has also washed away the blooms
on many plants, and have destroyed many trees. This all means
that blooming time will be later in the year which naturally
sets back the nectar flow. Excessive rain causes the nectar to get
washed out or diluted. This, coupled with high humidity that
accompanies rain, would cause the bees to have to work harder
to ripen it into honey. I wouldn`t use urban flowers to gauge the
success or failure of a nectar flow... unless of course your bees are
in an urban setting. But whatever impact the rain has on the
nectar itself, the main drawback is that bees don`t fly when its
raining!
This brings me to my next questionHow has this rain
affected the bees directly? I know my bees were stuck in their
hives for several days at a time and many of you received more
rain than we did. So if a flow lasts 4-5 weeks and during that
period it rains half the time. Well you can do the math. It doesnt
look very promising for our crop yields. We see that with all
this rain we have lost many blooms (meaning no food to forage)
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plants have been washed away (crops are ruined or set back in
growth), and our bees have not been able to get out and stretch
their wings for days in a row (decreases in egg laying and hive
productivity). Again this trial will only last for a season and I
believe that crops and bee hives will be better for it.
One more question. How has the rain affected beekeepers
themselves? Well first, for some beekeepers, it has made them
very stressed and a little angry because they have not been able
to work the hives and get them ready for honey flow on time. I
have heard many stories of work trucks, and semis getting stuck
while trying to move bees in fields and apiaries. (Oh the joys
of beekeeping!) Finally though, through the frustration, many
beekeepers (manly men) have begun to see the positive side of
all this rain. They now have a reason to buy that bass boat theyve
been trying to convince their wives was a necessity. Obviously it
is now a needed piece of beekeeping equipment -to get around in
some of yalls fields! Seriously though, through all the stress please
remember to be smart and careful while moving and working
bees in this muddy/ watery mess! And remember, Rain is a good
thing!
Enough of weather talkas for me and my travels, the last
two months have been super busy. I traveled to Austin to visit
the State Capital. I had the awesome privilege to speak before
the house and senate committees. I was able to visit many of the
Representatives and Senators of Texas, and share the importance
of honey bees and beekeeping to our great state. This specific
event opened my eyes to how great this program is. I realized that
without the chance to be in this Honey Queen position I would
not have the opportunity to experience some of these once in a
life time events!! So I just want to add a huge THANK YOU for
your continued support of me and this program!
I also visited Montgomery County Fair, Farmers Branch
Library, Frisco schools and one of my most favorite events so far,
the Pasadena Strawberry Festival. This event was a packed full
weekend. Working all day, and speaking to thousands of people.
The festival is known for its world record setting Strawberry
Shortcake (which by the way is delicious) the first piece of cake
was auctioned off for over $500 dollars and the last piece went
for more than $1000! At this event we spent the day (actually
3 days!) explaining the important role that honey bees play in
giving us delicious crops, like strawberries.
More events are scheduled for the upcoming months and I
cant wait to tell you how they go. Please keep up with what Im
doing, by likeing me on Facebook and following me on Twitter!
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3/25-27
Williamson County
Austin
3/28
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beekeeping school
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Sandcastle Preschool
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5/12
5/15-17
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Houston
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Austin
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9570 Maidenstone
San Antonio, TX 78250
(210) 722-7380
Chris Doggett
ckdoggett@gmail.com
400 County Road 440
Thrall, TX 76578
(512) 914-2794
Membership Coordinator
Shirley Doggett sdoggett@mindspring.com
400 County Road 440, Thrall, TX 76578
(512) 924-5051
Issue 15-3