Next Class

Our next meeting will be held on May 21st at 6:00 pm at my house. You will receive a letter with more details shortly so be looking for that in the mail.

Pay attention to the laying pattern of your queen this weekend so that you can compare what is going on in your hives with what is going on in my hives. I have several stages of development so we will see a broad range of activity.

It is important to maintain the feed program as we continue through this period of extended rainy period. The locust always seem to bloom during a rainy period; go figure. Whatever method you settle on for a feeding approach should be kept up. Those of you who have installed bees should be seeing frames being built out with wax and you should begin to see eggs layed in the bottom of some of those cells. When looking for eggs notice the pattern of the egg laying. You want to see very few cell skips in the egg laying pattern. If you are seeing random laying ( an egg here and an egg there) attention should be paid to the queen and the laying pattern over the next few weeks.

I am waiting to hear from a speaker before scheduling our next meeting however, it will likely be the week of May 18th at this point. I will keep you posted.