Meeting Agenda – None

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MAY – Meeting Agenda

• Advice on caring for nucs and packages – checking and feeding
• Waxed frames versus unwaxed frames
• Conducting a basic inspection
• Adding supers
• Mite management – extended release pads
• Other pest management – skunks:  hive at least 18 inches off ground for skunks or fencing; bears – electric fence
• Mentoring – identify who needs a mentor and who can/will be a mentor
• Question & Answer period

TASKS FOR THE MONTH OF MAY INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING:

• Feeding
  • as nectar flow gets into full swing (end of May) remove feeders and pollen patties
• Hive Inspections
  • Watching the entrance
  • Noting what is on the bottom board and in front of the hive
  • Note how many frames the bees are actively storing things in (food and brood)
  • Verify presence of eggs, open larvae, and capped brood
• Established colonies – swarm control – make splits, forced brood break, Demaree method
• New colonies – check for queen; make sure package installs with no drawn comb have 1:1 sugar syrup
• Add boxes (supers) when bees cover 3/4 of the existing frames in the bottom box (or all the boxes below)
• Pest management – Varrao mites
• Buy and order new hive components – especially have an additional box and frames ready to add