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July 11-13, 2013 -- NCSBA Summer Meeting, Southern Pines, NC

Local NC News

Bee Informed Partnership Winter Loss Survey Available Now!
March 23, 2013 -- The annual Bee Informed Partnership Winter Loss and Management Survey is available March 29 through April 15th. The survey is free and takes only 10-20 minutes to complete. Click here to read more about this initiative.

NCSBA Library is Ready for YOU to Check-out Materials

Updated April 2, 2013 -- The new NCSBA Library services are up and running through the Erwin Library at Wayne Community College.

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The information about borrowing materials is located in the audiovisual paragraph at the bottom of page one in the Beekeeping Bibliography. It tells you to use the blue link to email your request directly to the library with your contact information, the bibliography title, and library code (Ex.: SF523.583 2007) of what you want to check out. It is very easy! The audiovisual offerings in the bibliography begin on page ten or higher (it changes with the addition of new materials). Books are also available.

Go to Beekeeping Bibliography

IMPORTANT! If there is a beekeeping DVD that is not listed and you think we should get it, please let Bob Kemper know about it and we will try to add it to the collection.

Certified Honey Producer Labels Program Application
August 8, 2012 -- The NCSBA Certified Honey Producer application can be downloaded using the above link. The cost to apply is only $25 and allows beekeepers who adhere to the NC Honey Standard and are approved by the Honey Board the opportunity to purchase "Certified" labels for use on their honey.

Natural Beekeeper Michael Bush coming to Charlotte
George McAllister, Mecklenburg County Beekeepers Association
Charlotte, N.C., August 5, 2012 — The Mecklenburg County Beekeepers Association is hosting natural beekeeper & author Michael Bush on Sunday, August 5. Michael is the author of acclaimed book The Practical Beekeeper: Beekeeping Naturally.
He is one of the leading proponents of treatment-free beekeeping.
Michael will share with us his vast natural beekeeping knowledge from the research and practical experience he has acquired over the years.

He has been keeping bees since the mid-70's, with two to seven hives until the year 2000. Varroa mites forced more experimentation which required more hives and the number has grown steadily over the years. By 2008 Michael had increased his apiary to about 200 hives.

This special seminar will be held Sunday, August 5 from 2-4 p.m. at
Providence United Methodist Church, 2810 Providence Rd., Charlotte, NC.  General public registration is only $5.00.

Click here to learn more and register. 

We look forward seeing you at this exciting event.

 

Cary Town Council Hearing on Beekeeping
Cary Town Council video
Cary, N.C., Feb. 23, 2012 -- The Cary Town Council unanimously tabled the restrictive beekeeping ordinance under consideration following the public hearing, where beekeepers spoke out against the ordinance. Watch the hearing here. Move the video slider to the 35:45 minute mark where the beekeeping hearing begins.

Can honeybees be good neighbors?
BY ANDREW KENNEY, News & Observer
Cary, N.C., Feb. 21, 2012 -- At its Thursday meeting, the Cary Town Council will consider a proposal by town staff to explicitly allow the keeping of beehives on residential lots larger than 30,000 square feet, or about two-thirds of an acre.

Louisburg woman ordered to give up backyard bees
By Reporter: Renee Chou, WRAL News
Louisburg, N.C., Feb. 14, 2012 — A Franklin County judge on Tuesday ordered a Louisburg woman to give up her backyard beehives.

Zoo Exhibit Wins Landscape Award
By: Tom Gillespie
Asheboro, NC, Oct. 25, 2011-- The North Carolina Zoo's Honey Bee Garden exhibit has recently received an Award of Merit from the North Carolina Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects....

State Fair Winners
Raleigh, NC, Oct. 13, 2011 -- Select a Category "Bees & Honey" to see winners.

September is Honey Bee Appreciation Month in NC
Office of the Governor
Raleigh, September 1, 2011 -- "WHEREAS, September is National Honey Month, the State of North Carolina recognizes the importance of the honeybee...."

State Beekeepers Adopt Honey Standard
By Charles Heatherly, NC State Beekeepers Association
China Grove, July 8, 2010 -- North Carolina beekeepers moved a step closer to the adoption of a honey standard that would limit the abuses of honey sold in the state.

Governor highlights honey bees' agricultural importance
By: Jessica Cervantez , News 14 Carolina
RALEIGH, June 22, 2010 – In an effort to highlight the importance of honey bee pollination on North Carolina's agricultural sector, Gov. Bev Perdue suited up and harvested honey Tuesday morning at the executive mansion.

All A BUZZ at the North Carolina Zoo
NC Farm Bureau Magazine July/August 2009
Asheboro, NC, June 2009 -- It began in 1994 as an idea during a late-night conversation in a hotel room at the annual beekeepers meeting.

Beekeeper Receives Order of the Longleaf Pine
NC Farm Bureau Magazine, Vol. 79 No. 6
Raleigh, NC, November 2008 -- For his work promoting beekeeping, Edgecombe County Farm Bureau’s Irvin Rackley recently received the state’s highest civilian honor— the Order of the Longleaf Pine.

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Pesticide build-up could lead to poor honey bee health
Penn State University
Philadelphia, August 18, 2008 -- Honey bees industriously bring pollen and nectar to the hive, but along with the bounty comes a wide variety of pesticides, according to Penn State researchers.

Excavations reveal first beehives in ancient Near East
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem via Huliq.com
Sept. 4, 2007 -- This is the earliest apiary to be revealed to date in an archaeological excavation anywhere in the ancient Near East, said Prof. Mazar. It dates from the 10th to early 9th centuries B.C.E.

An answer to the mystery of wanton queen honeybees
By Susan Lang, Cornell University, Press Release
July 19, 2007 -- Why do queen honeybees mate with dozens of males? Does their extreme promiscuity, perhaps, serve a purpose?