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.

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. 

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

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

Come On! Get in on the buzz about beekeeping!

Free Admission 

The vendor area will be open from 7:30 am to 2:40 pm! Vendors from many beekeeping companies will bee on site selling equipment, books and unique gifts and information.

Silent Auction! 

Walk-in Registration is accepted. Registration is highly encouraged. Online registration link below. 

The conference is set up to provide a wide variety of topics focused from beginners to advanced beekeeper through a choice of keynote topics and 12 concurrent sessions

• 7:30 am -8:00 am D104- Main Auditorium - Movies! Bee Venom Therapy, Love, and Venom

• 8:00 am - 8:10 am Welcome! Announcements, explanation of concurrent sessions, lunch and the silent auction.

• 8:10 am - 9:40 am Keynote Jim Tew. Healthy Colonies: a review of some non-pathogenic conditions that can cause bee colonies to fail to thrive

• 9:55 am - 10:45 am 1st Concurrent Session below

More more details on the sessions click here 

• 11:00 am -12:00 pm Keynote Speaker Jim Tew on Foulbrood - Still Here, Still Persistent. European and American Foulbrood overview of controls, and eradication procedures

• Lunch - 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

• 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Keynote Speaker Jim Tew on Wintering Stress in the Bees Nest: behavioral activities that allow tropically oriented bees to survive abnormally low temperatures. 

• 2:05 pm - 2:15 pm  D104 Main Auditorium, - Silent Auction Results 

• 2:15 pm 2:40 pm Pay for silent auction items, final call for Vendors, take your items to the car

• 2:40 pm - 3:30 pm 2nd Concurrent Session below

To register for the conference, please sign up here. We are highly encouraging participants to sign up. You did not need to be a member to attend. Admission is free.