Skin Care Products from the Hive by Carrie Sample

Our honeybees provide much more than honey. 

Did you know that skin-care products are among these “Extras” 

😃 Come and learn from our own Carrie Sample  😃

Preparing  Colonies for Winter

We may still have highs in the 80s, BUT Winter is coming on. 

Preparations should already be Ongoing! 

Be up to date on Feeding, Entrance Reduction, Sugar/Candy Boards, MORE

👍Come learn from experienced beekeepers  👍

Remember. NO October Regular Meeting - Come Ask Your Question NOW

Special Reminder 

Sugar-Board Coming Up SOON:  Saturday, October 5th 

😃 MARK Your Calendar - Bee there 😃

At the Nature Center. - Watch for separate Email

Early Fall Beekeeping Considerations - Here are a few

• Colonies require adequate stores of BOTH honey and Pollen
• Fall forage continues to decline, particularly nectar flow. 
• Some pollen is still available, but also declining
• Feed 2:1, Sugar:Water syrup. INSIDE to discourage robbing
• Robbing is still an issue. Take precautions
• Are colonies populations adequate.  Consider combining weak colonies
• Manage colony/hive configuration: 
• Try for brood area low, honey stores above
• Compact hive volume as much as possible.     
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Come - Listen - Ask - Learn. 

😃  This is an awesome opportunity!  Bee There  😃

Other Meeting items for consideration: 

• Should you consider requeening? 🤔
• Do you have Hive Inspection questions 🤔
• Swarm season is largely past, BUT “Bees don’t read the book” 🙄

• How are your colonies doing?  What should you be watching for?
• Nectar flows are diminishing. - Is feeding appropriate?
• Watch for August and September beekeeping calendars in a separate email
• Our CIBA Sugar-Board Social: October 5, Holliday Park
• The Beekeepers of Indiana Fall Conference: October 25, 26. - See state website