If you need honey bees remove from your property please see the Honey Bee Removal List.
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Our regular meetings are usually on the first Thursday of each month at 6:30 PM in the main lecture room of Tennessee Tech South hall in Cookeville TN. Directions from I-40
2012 Association Officers
- David Fox – President
- Arliss Swafford – Vice President
- David LaFerney – Treasurer / Website Administrator
About the Photograph in the Page Header
The header photo is cropped from this picture taken by Shirley LaFerney (my lovely wife):
and shows from left to right – capped brood, white larva (open brood) curled up in cells and almost ready to be capped, and on the right are pollen stores. The pollen is different colors because it has been gathered from different flowers, and you may notice that most of it has a wet sheen – bees mix pollen and nectar along with enzymes from their bodies which caused is to ferment into “bee bread” an extremely important high protein food supply. You can click on this picture for a detailed view and then you can blow the image up even more by holding the Ctrl key while you hit the + button several times.
David:
I’d like to make you a not-especially-lucrative offer to write an article for Homestead.org.
Could you please email me at your convenience?
New subscriber to newsletter
Jim
I am new to beekeeping. I cannot make tonights meeting. Is there any way I could reserve a package and drop off a check on Friday 2/8?
Thanks for your help.
Jack
Hello, my family has just moved to Tennessee. We purchased a small farm in livingston and I want to start raising bees. I plan on going to the January 25 or 26 meeting in Livingston and was wondering if I needed to let anyone know that I wanted to attend. I would also like to purchase bees and a small 5 frame Nuc or hive, maybe both? Also if anyone has any equipment to sell shoot me an email and let’s talk. Rhramsan@yahoo.com
Thanks,
Heather Ramirez
Your Association has an excellent website. Great info for the beekeeping community. Keep up the good work.
I was reading the info about making splits. While there I looked over all the stuff you had put on the website. Very useful stuff. Thanks.
Therel, feed your bees 1 to 1 ratio sugar water at this time of year. 1 pound of sugar plus one pint of water, but be careful not to set off robbing. My favorite way to feed is from an upside down quart jar with push pin holes in the lid – on top of the hole in the inner cover. Just put an empty super between the inner and outer cover to make room for the jar. Good luck.
I like this ,you all have a lot of good imformation I would like for someone to give me a recipe to feed my bees I am putting a new queen in 8-16 -12 I live in south carolina but there is not much going on now they have been queenless two weeks so I don’t have any nurse bees please help what do you think will happen? thank’s I realy wan’t these bees to make it through the winter but I realy don’t know what to feed them.
Therel Utsey
I was wondering as I may relocate to that area from KCMO….is beekeeping profitable in the area?…One question is can one rent hives to local farmers for pollination?…Is there enough crop farming, and/or enough bees?….Thanks in advance for any info that may help……Dave