Beekeeping: August 21st CIBA Meeting- Head's Up 😀
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Date:
July 17th 2025
Reminder; CIBA July 21st Open Meeting
🌼 🌷. 🌸 😃 Mid-Summer Beekeeping 😃 🌸 🌷. 🌼
Time and Location: 6:30 PM, Nature Center, Holliday Park, 6363 Spring Mill Rd., 46260
(See below regarding Zoom Option)
Our Principle Program:
👌 Cover Crops for Honeybee Management 👍
Jayde Grisham & Kevin Allison
Purdue Extension
Other Meeting Highlights:
- Season-specific considerations: Decreased brood production is normal.
- Information on Upcoming CIBA Opportunities
- CIBA at the State Fair Booth Volunteers. (May need some help on 13th)..
- “10 Questions” Beekeeping Quiz 😃
- Refreshments by Kerry Wurst 🎉
- Raffle: Always 3 Winners 🙏🏽
- Of course.. Bring Your Questions! 👌
July-August: Food for Beekeeper’s Thoughts:
- Foraging: Nectar Flow is at a low point
- Upcoming nectar sources include Clover, cone flowers, milkweed, sunflowers.
- HOWEVER…In most areas these ARE NOT adequate sources next few weeks.
- Remember: Bees forage for a mile or more radius, - Further in periods of dearth
- Monitor stored honey reserves: Bees may begin consuming stored honey. In severe shortages consider feeding
- Expect declines in egg laying and brood formation
- Queens can be difficult to spot. - (Don’t panic if you can’t find her)
- If you can see eggs: She was there within the past 2-3 days
- If you can see small larvae: She was there within the past 4 to 6 days
- (In extreme dearth egg-laying may cease for a while)
- Remember: Bees must keep brood area near 93 degrees. (This can be difficult in hot weather)
- Bees regulate hive temperatures by:
- Regulating air flow into, through and out of hive
- Evaporative Cooling: Be sure bees have access to a nearby water supply.
- Bearding is a common temperature regulation behavior:
- Large quantities of bees will accumulate outside entrance in hot-humid weather
- (Fewer will be outside in early morning when air is cooler)
- Watch for hive beetles, avoid excessive empty supers. Best defense is a STRONG Colony
- Continue to think about your strategy for mite control. (Remember…Varroa vectors several viruses).
- Robbing will become more of an issue. Weak colonies are particularly vulnerable.
- Other questions, concerns? - Contact Your Mentor
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