VBA Recognition Program - 2022
Seeking Nominees to be Recognized at the Summer Meeting
Nominations Due August 17, 2022
The VBA Recognition Committee is seeking nominations of your peers for their good work in three beekeeping categories:
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Beekeeper of the Year
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Mentor/Mentee pair
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Friend of the Bees
The individuals selected will be recognized at the upcoming summer meeting on September 17.
Please take a few minutes and think about someone you know who has gone the extra mile in these categories. We have many people doing a lot of good work to support our honey bees and beekeepers so let’s recognize and encourage them.
Sell Honey @ the Tunbridge World's Fair
September 15-18, 2022
Dear VBA members,
The VBA Tunbridge Fair Committee is again soliciting honey (and other bee-related products) to be sold at the Fair.
This activity is the largest annual fund-raiser for the VBA. To make this process both fair and simple, we have a few guidelines for your submissions:
Ask Me Anything (About Beekeeping)
If you missed our Ask Me Anything (About Beekeeping) workshop this week, the recording is available to VBA members (along with many others) online. Simply login to the site and look under the Calendar menu. (Co-hosted by VBA members, Fred Putnam, Tony Antonucci, and Jeff Battaglini.)
- Preventing the spread of diseases esp. AFB
- Re-queening calendar and recordkeeping (if a colony is queenless)
- Summer actions to prep for winter.
- Mite management and virus loads - options for this time of the year
- Weather impacts - Dealing with too little or too much rain
- Water supply
- Pollen sub
- Dearths or not
- Extracting tips
- Tips on handling defensive colonies
Extended Use of Oxalic Acid Workshop Recording
AFB Announcement
American Foul Brood (AFB) has been confirmed in hives located within 5 miles of Chester, Vermont. Traceback investigation is underway and appears to have been a result of using old frames contaminated with AFB scale.
Registered beekeepers within the 2-mile radius will be contacted by phone. All beekeepers should perform thorough inspections and report any suspect disease to the State Apiculturist Brooke Decker at 802-272-6688.
What Should I Be Doing For My Bees Now?
If you missed Thursday's online workshop it was recorded and is available under our Calendar menu in Past Workshops. (Login required.)
"Pesticides Threatening Pollinators, Lawmakers Punt on Limit to Bee-killing Poisons"
So begins an article from the May 19 issue of the Addison Independent featuring Chas Mraz of Champlain Valley Apiaries who expressed dissapointment that H.626 was passed in a watered-down version that "did not ban neonicotinoids — even temporarily."
