
Sunday, March 14 at 7pm: RIBA General Membership Meeting featuring Erin MacGregor-Forbes
RIBA is proud to welcome back Erin MacGregor-Forbes.
Erin is Chairman Emeritus of the Eastern Apiculture Society as well as an EAS Master Beekeeper. She runs Overland Honey, which is based out of Jefferson and Portland, ME. We last had her as a guest speaker about 5 years ago and we’ve had many requests to bring her back since then. She is a great entertaining speaker and an absolute wealth of information regarding practical beekeeping. The title of her presentation is “A Sustainable Northeast Apiary Management Plan.”
http://www.overlandhoney.com/
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Topic: RIBA Presents: Erin MacGregor-Forbes
Time: Mar 14, 2021 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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RIBA is proud to welcome back Dan Conlon as the featured speaker for our January general membership meeting. Dan is a full-time beekeeper and co-owner of Warm Colors Apiary in South Deerfield, Massachusetts. Along with Bonita Conlon, they produce varieties of local and regional honeys, beeswax products, and provide pollination to Pioneer Valley farms and orchards. Dan’s beekeeping experience includes forty-five years of apiary management, honey production and crop pollination.
Dan is the president of the Russian Honey Bee Breeders Association and has served as President of the Massachusetts Beekeepers Association, Franklin County Beekeepers Association, and as the Massachusetts representative to the Eastern Apicultural Society’s Board of Directors. Dan was recognized as 2004 Beekeeper of the Year by the Eastern Apicultural Society and awarded the Divelbiss Award for beekeeping education and public outreach. Dan was voted Massachusetts Beekeeper of the Year in 2005. These are just a few of the many accolades earned by Dan and Warm Colors Apiary over the years.
https://www.warmcolorsapiary.
RIBA is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: RIBA Presents: Dan Conlon (Warm Colors Apiary)
Time: Jan 17, 2021 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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November 8, 2pm: Dr Howard Ginsberg, URI
Time: Nov 8, 2020 02:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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RIBA is proud to welcome back Erin MacGregor-Forbes.
Erin is Chairman Emeritus of the Eastern Apiculture Society as well as an EAS Master Beekeeper. She runs Overland Honey, which is based out of Jefferson and Portland, ME. We last had her as a guest speaker about 5 years ago and we’ve had many requests to bring her back since then. She is a great entertaining speaker and an absolute wealth of information regarding practical beekeeping. The title of her presentation is “A Sustainable Northeast Apiary Management Plan.”
Time: Oct 18, 2020 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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Please take 5 minutes to fill out our first ever honey pricing survey. This is 15 questions about how much (if any) honey you extracted this year, how you price your honey, and where you sell it. It is anonymous and you don’t need to be a RIBA member to participate, but this is intended for Rhode Island beekeepers only, please. Please click the link to take the survey after you’re done with your fall honey extractions:
September Newletter:
Murder Hornets, She Wrote
July/August Tasks for RI Beekeepers
I generally plan on extracting honey around the 4th of July. That’s not set in stone, but it’s easy for me to remember. Frames that are 80-100% capped can be assumed to be ready to extract. Uncapped frames MAY also be ready to extract, but without a refractometer to test, there’s no good way to be certain. 18.6% moisture or below is what you are aiming for.
Wet supers can be placed back on the hives to refill or clean, depending on flow/dearth conditions in your area. Wet supers should not be left out in your yard or a field for bees to rob out. This is essentially open feeding and can attract pests, cause fighting between bees at the food source, lead to robbing of hives, and contribute to the spread of disease/viruses/mites. Open feeding should never be used by backyard/small scale beekeepers, it’s completely unnecessary. Even for commercial beekeepers with 1000s of hives to deal with, open feeding was cited as one of the top 5 WORST management practices in a recent BIP study:
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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 7pm Live Via Zoom
Dr. Meghan Milbrath began working bees over 25 years ago, and now owns and manages The Sand Hill Apiary, a small livestock and queen rearing operation in Munith, Michigan. She is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Entomology at MSU, where she does honey bee and pollinator research and extension and is the coordinator of the Michigan Pollinator Initiative. Meghan is active in multiple beekeeping organizations, writes for multiple beekeeping journals, and speaks about bees all over the country. She currently runs the Northern Bee Network, a directory and resource site dedicated to supporting queen producers, and she is passionate about keeping and promoting healthy bees.
A link with the Zoom login info will be emailed to all RIBA members in good standing approximately 1 week prior to the talk. Please make sure your dues are up to date and that your email allows mail from ribeekeeper.org to prevent missing out.
RIBA 2020 Spring/Summer Update
Spring Banquet (April 25) – The actual banquet has, of course, been postponed, but our speaker, Gary Reuter (University of Minnesota), will be addressing us via Zoom at 1pm. You should have already received the meeting login information via email. Zoom if free, easy to use, and takes just a few moments to set up the first time.
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