Fall is fast approaching. Your honeybees are storing up for winter months. Now is the time to get them prepared. With the dry weather this year, many areas are in drought conditions. Your bees may not have enough Honey stored to make it through the winter. Feeding 1:1 sugar syrup (1 lb of sugar per 1 lb of water) Easy recipe is 1 1/4 gallons of water for 10 lbs of sugar. or 2:1 as it gets colder maybe needed. Brad Shaws Sugar syrup recipe. When feeding entrance reducers are needed to cut down on robbing by neighbor honeybees and Yellowjackets. Now is also the time to do Varroa Mite treatments so your bees are healthy for winter. The workers that are being born late August-September are the workers that will carry the hive through the winter. They have a different metabolism and live longer than summer and spring bees. So it is imperative they are healthy and free of mites. Here is a link to some very good information to help: Keith Tignor
October Meeting will be at BRCC October 17 at 6:30 pm in the Houff Center room 186/188. Speaker will be Stan O’Bannon (Sandi Good’s brother). Mr. O’Bannon is a Certified beekeeper from Norther Georgia with 130 colonies. He is also the Vice President of Beekeepers of Madison County, a member of Lake Hartwell Beekeepers Association, and a member of the Georgia Beekeepers Association. Also accepting nominations for the upcoming SVBA Executive Board Elections in November. If you are interested in serving on the board or want to know what the duties are for the varoius positions, please contact us
