Westview Orchards and Winery in Romeo.
It will be at the end of their tart and sweet U-Pick cherry crop around then and have start of
summer red raspberries. More information to come. Will be a fun day!
Megan Milbrath
Successful overwintering - How do bees survive the winter cold? What can we do to make it easier on them? We’ll cover the biology of the the winter bee, with of focus on how their behavior can drive our management. We’ll also cover ways that we can improve overwinter success. The focus is on the work that needs to be done in August and September.
Set yourself up for a successful winter!
SEMBA’s own Senad Livadic will be speaking to us on Making splits and NUCs and how to manage your colonies.
Senad started and learned basic beekeeping in Bosnia before he came to live in Michigan in 2000. Please join us!
Colony autopsy: decoding clues to why a colony died
Losing a honey bee colony is never easy. Identifying why your bees died can help you improve your honey bee management skills in the future. In this presentation, we will discuss possible reasons for a colony’s death based on the clues the bees left behind. We will talk about what to do with a deadout’s leftover honey and equipment, and we will focus on ways to prevent colony loss in future beekeeping seasons.
Ana Heck learned how to keep bees in Nicaragua while apprenticing on an organic farm and working with a women's beekeeping cooperative. She joined the University of Minnesota Bee Squad in 2014, where she managed apiaries, provided hands-on and classroom training to beekeepers, and managed Bee Squad outreach and Extension programs. Heck joined Michigan State University’s Michigan Pollinator Initiative in January 2019 as a Research Technologist to support pollinator education initiatives, honey bee research, and implementation of policies to protect pollinators. She holds a Master’s degree in Public Policy from the University of Minnesota and a B.A. in Philosophy and Spanish from Creighton University.
Most meetings are on the 3rd Sunday of every month. But not April’s meeting due to the Easter Holiday
Click HERE to register
Keynote Speaker: Kent Williams - Races of Honey Bees, A year in the Life of a Beekeeper
Speakers include:
Meghan Milbrath
Jamie Walters
Rich Wieske
Jim Ford
Earl Hoffman
and more
Our February 17th meeting will feature Arborist Mike Connor. Mike will be talking about Bees, Trees and planning for Spring. There is always some new facet to learn about the plants that are vital to keep our honey bees and other pollinators alive. Mike will be discussing new and never old information on bee forage. If you haven't heard him speak, please join us! If members want to order trees or shrubs from his Honey Tree Nursery, he will take the orders at the meeting with delivery at the 81st Conference in March. To learn more about the trees he sells, check out his website here
Potluck at 1:00 meeting starts at 2:00
The program is Dr. Terry Kane!
'The Veterinarians Role in Beekeeping: A One Health Issue'
"Veterinarians have a new role in honey bee health and management now that they are considered 'livestock'. This presentation is not a list of honey bee diseases and treatment but rather an overview of how veterinarians contribute to bee 'herd health' and what you, as beekeepers, can expect from us."
"Dr. Terry Ryan Kane entered veterinary school at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana with a Master’s degree in Ecology from the University of Illinois-Chicago. She took beekeeping from the UI Extension Service during vet school as part of an animal behavior project she was working on. As a pilot, she was interested in their navigation and communication behavior, the “waggle dance”. She was an AVMA-AAAS Congressional Science and Technology Policy Fellow 2010- 2011 in the Senate working on the farm bill, antibiotic resistance, emerging diseases, and food safety/security. Returning home to Ann Arbor, MI, she started up beekeeping again. With the concomitant knowledge of how critical pollinators are to food security and what the new FDA guidelines meant to beekeepers, she started A2 Bee Vet, a veterinary practice serving our pollinator stewards."
Our December meeting will be special! We are meeting at Bløm Meadworks. Please RSVP to let us know you are coming. Click HERE to RSVP
There will be mead and snacky snacks for purchase
If you are planning on attending - Please RVSP Here
Elections will be held at the Annual Meeting, November 18, 2018, please consider these offices on the SEMBA board and contact sembasecretary2@gmail.com
1st VP -incumbent Senad Livadic
Treasurer- Incumbent Tammy Bonifield
1st Director- Incumbent Don Schram
MBA Representative -Incumbent Dave Zurek
Historian-currently vacant
also
these positions need to be filled due to vacancies.
2nd VP-
Secretary-
Also in accordance with Article 6: 1-e Vacancies in any office of SEMBA shall be filled by a majority vote of the Executive Committee. Such appointments shall be effective until the next regularly scheduled SEMBA Election
President - Sandy Graichen
SECTION 3: Officers and Directiors shall be elected by the general membership at the Annual Meeting and shall assume their offices immediately after the election. All candidates for SEMBA offices and director positions shall have been members in good standing for at least 12 months immediately prior to the election.
Coffee, Tea, & Cocoa will be provided by SEMBA.
Membership meeting: 2:00
Club announcements
Open meeting questions / Comments/ Suggestions
Program: 2: 30
Meghan Milbrath on Varroa Viruses
Please park in the north parking lot and enter through the Vis Ta Tech entrance
Please RSVP HERE
September 16, 2018 at 1:00
‘Keeping bees (alive) in any climate is challenging, but Michigan have some additional requirements to address in order to see the little darlings fly back out again in March or April.’
Please park in the north parking lot and enter through the Vis Ta Tech entrance
Mike Sautter will be addressing Seasonal Varroa Control
Come and learn about the management tools and best practice recomendations used in the fight against varroa.
Raise your own queens! Get off the package treadmill!
Increase your understanding of bee biology.
SEMBA QUEEN REARING 101
(For third year or more experienced beekeepers only)
Hands on class includes diverse queen rearing techniques:
*grafting
*making splits
*Cloake board
*Miller method
*cutting out swarm cells
*setting up basic starter/finisher colonies
Max students: 24. Great teacher to student ratio.
Syllabus and bibliography included
Fee: $60
No Refunds after July 19th. If you cancel there is a $10.00 fee
The Class will be held in the City of Detroit. Once you sign up we will send you the address and the reading list and syllabus.
Pre-register now for the Summer Picnic! The cut-off for registration for lunch July 11th 2018
Summer Picnic - July 15, 2018
Check - in starting at 12:30 Lunch starting at 12:45
Program at 2:00
You do not need to be pre-registered to come to the program.
Bob will give a presentation on setting up a honey house and give a tour of his new facility.
$5.00 per person lunch - catered by Heavenly Hotdog
Choice of meat: Hot dogs, Brats, polish sausage, or Vegetarian hot dogs, Chips, Coleslaw, Baked Beans and drink.
Click HERE to pre-register
Dessert potluck: Please bring a dessert using Honey for the dessert bar.
No refunds.
You must be pre-registered for the picnic portion of the meeting.
If you have questions please contact Tammy Email tammybonifield@gmail.com or call (248)219-1285
Coffee, Tea, & Cocoa will be provided by SEMBA.
Membership meeting: 2:00
Club announcements
Open meeting questions / comments/ Suggestions
Program: 2: 30
Don Schram Swarm Triggers,Splits & Queen Rearing
Trip to Canada
SEMBA is organizing a trip to Canada to visit Ferguson Apiaries in Hensall, Ontario. The Ferguson family is the biggest buckfast queen producer in North America. The trip will take place Saturday, May 26th.
Then its off to the Canadian Border! We plan to arrive at Ferguson Apiaries around 11:00-11:30am. The Ferguson family will provide a sandwich for us. We will be returning back home at 2:30-3:00pm.
The cost of transportation and food is $40.00. Each person attending will need to have a passport or Enhanced Drivers License that will allow you into Canada.
Total number of spaces is limited to 55 people!
When you have added the trip to your cart. Go to the top of the page and click on the shopping cart in the top right hand corner.
Potluck at 1:30, bring a dish to pass and your own table service, coffee tea, cocoa provided by SEMBA
Membership meeting at 2:00 - club announcements, election of interim officers
Program: 2:30 - Meghan Milbrath - Varroa Viruses, APHIS National Honey Bee Survey
At Schoolcraft College , Vis Ta Tech Building in the Lower Waterman Center
The Sutherland Family Invites You to Commemorate the life of Roger Sutherland
At Schoolcraft College - The Sutherland Room
This is an open house event. All are welcome. A
Memory Circle will occur 2:00 P.M. to 2:45 P.M.
Please bring a memory to share. appetizers will
be served throughout the event.
Beekeepers are invited to wear beekeeping attire.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions in Roger’s honor may
be made to the Schoolcraft College Foundation
