Pollen!
Your bees should be finding lots of pollen now…
Check out this little video clip of a happy bee!
Your bees should be finding lots of pollen now…
Check out this little video clip of a happy bee!
We are configuring a Member Photo Gallery. If you’d like to see your photos in our newsletter and on our website, please send your beekeeping related photos to MSBAnewsletter@gmail.com with a short paragraph detailing the setting, date, and photographers name, a short bio, region located, and number of years as a beekeeper.
On the MSBA website’s homepage there is a section for “History Buffs”. If you check it out you’ll be able to find archived newsletters of MSBA’s activities going back about forty years. If you made it to the Fall Conference in Kirksville this year I encourage you to check out the newsletter of September, 1978….
ANOTHER TOOL TO HELP US BECOME BETTER BEEKEEPERS One of the perks of being a regional representative for MSBA is to be able to visit and speak to a number of beekeeping clubs. It is interesting to see how these clubs are different. There are clubs that appear formal, with officers, minutes and a bank…
The Economist had a very interesting post a couple of days ago about training bees to find landmines and a new app that can tell you what’s wrong with your bees. It can tell if you have hive beetles, varroa, foul brood, if they’re getting ready to swarm, etc. Read the article for yourself… https://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21739645-matching-honeybee-noises-their-ailments-new-app-listens-problems
The National Association of County Agricultural Agents has awarded Missouri’s Master Pollinator Steward Program with a National Search for Excellence Award for Environmental Quality. The Environmental Quality award recognizes the development and implementation of an outstanding extension educational program in environmental quality, forestry and natural resources. The national award was designed to recognize members and teams who…
Are you interested in furthering your education? Great Plains Master Beekeeping Program makes its debut in Missouri! By Gregg Hitchings – msbagregg@gmail.com Another chapter in Missouri beekeeping was opened at MSBA’s October 18-19, 2019 fall conference in Moberly. Sheldon Brummel, Master Beekeeping Project Coordinator for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), spoke to the large group…