July 21, 2015
The Oxford Hills Honeybee Club participated in the 2015 Waterford Worlds Fair. Eight club members helped share their knowledge, spread the news of honeybee clubs and sell some delicious honey. Thanks to Carol Cottrill, Ken Record, Paul Szott, Wally Frank, Kevin Farr, Paula and Cristopher Easton and John Sinkler for making this possible. We hope to make this an annual event for our club.
July 21, 2015
We angered the bees who occupy the club hive with a bit of menthol smoke on a warm day. A small amount of honey was removed for extracting.
June 15, 2015
Who says Honey Bees and Harley’s don’t go together. Club member’s Robert Kobell and Jim Quinn take advantage of the beautiful summer like weather.
June 15, 2015
It was not just splits we were viewing. Here, Chris Easton inspects a perfect comb from Ken’s Top Bar hive. Chris is our club expert for “Top Bar” Take a closer look. If you click on an image, it will enlarge in a new window Jerry told me this Top Bar is also referred to as a “kenyan” hive Our club hive sat almost unnoticed and perhaps a…
June 15, 2015
Chris Rodgers draws a large turn out for the clubs March Meeting Chris took us through the months in the life of a hive. A topic that usually pops up is treatment for pests. Chris gave detailed instructions on ways to combat the parasites and other potential destroyers of colonies.
June 15, 2015
For our January meeting, Tony Bachelder takes time off from his own bees to give great advise on wintering our bees.
July 15, 2014
The bees are still feverishly working as the honey flow continues. Wally Frank unloaded two honey supers from the back of his big dodge pick-up truck. Ken, Don and Kevin were there to help. The club stainless steel extractor sat on top of a wooden base that Wally had made to put it at the right height for filling a five gallon bucket, and filling a five gallon bucket with golden…
June 18, 2014
A swarm of honey bees gathered high, clinging to a narrow birch branch. The weather was suitable for outside demonstrations. Paul Szott was going to open the club hive and get it prepared for the honey flow. Ken Record was to demonstrate techniques of catching a swarm, but the swarm that rested 24 feet over head was not placed there by Ken. The club honeybees had decided to stage their own demonstration.…
May 12, 2014
I spoke to three club members this past Saturday who intend to split at least one of their hives. You know how to split a hive, you take bees from one hive and place them into another empty hive. Well, I did know a little bit more than that simplistic definition prior to last Saturdays club meeting, but not too much. Prior to the meeting I asked Ken if it…
April 13, 2014
Paul Szott gave a brief rundown of springtime hive management before heading outside on a beautifully warm April afternoon. This is what we all wanted to do. Before a large audience of beekeepers of varying experience, Paul dug right in. You never know exactly what you will find, but the amount of activity and the pollen laden workers told us it would be good. The first frames pulled…
