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. 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
We will also be having our annual Picnic on September 29th from 2-6 at Grand Caverns in the big pavilion. The club will be providing the Barbecue Chicken and drinks. Members should bring a dish to share and an item for the auction. We will need to know if you plan on attending as we will need to order the Chicken a few weeks ahead of time.
