Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2016 13:36:52 -0400 From: mphorn22 Subject: Re Mary & Bees Congratulations, Mary, for making sure your bee hives remained viable. You are one of the people who apparently is doing the right thing by the environment that allows bees to thrive. It is encouraging as wellContinue Reading
Please do not judge me and say I am buying into Bayer or Monsanto. Read what I said. It is not ONLY pesticides, it is a combination of nature and pesticides.Continue Reading
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 10:45:18 -0400 From: mphorn22 Subject: Mary, Bees, 70/30 Dear Mary and everyone else, re the bees. It is NOT a natural thing that is occurring regarding the bees dying off. 40% of hives dying within one year? That’s too big a loss. 70% of theContinue Reading
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 09:05:57 -0400 From: “Peggy Wilson” Subject: Bees Maryphyllis, I can’t speak to the lack of bumblebees/carpenter bees, but if you are noticing fewer or no honey bees, it may be because someone near you used to keep bees but does not anymore. Honey bees onlyContinue Reading
Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2016 12:53:21 -0400 (EDT) From: sazimmerman Subject: Bees are swarming now Dean Phillips just picked up a huge swarm from a neighbor’s tree. If anyone else needs a swarm removed please give him a call. 919.548.3911 Thank you Ann ZimmermanContinue Reading
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2014 21:01:09 -0500 From: “Pat Weisbrodt” Subject: Thanks to Phyllis and Kevin The Chatham County Beekeepers Association lost one of our members this year to cancer. Joseph Pedagno was a talented and respected man who was taken from his family and friends too soon. We askedContinue Reading
Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 14:46:07 -0400 (EDT) From: “Phyllis Fleming ” Subject: Chatham Beekeepers Meet Join Chatham County Beekeepers at their monthly meeting on Thursday evening, May 15 at 7 p.m. in the auditorium (lower floor) of the Agricultural Building in downtown Pittsboro. The meeting will feature a presentationContinue Reading
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 11:00:47 -0400 From: “Pat Weisbrodt” Subject: The Chatham County Beekeepers Association will be selling honey My name is Pat Weisbrodt and I am president of the CCBA this year. We have a unique opportunity to sell local honey that was extracted from the hives weContinue Reading
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2012 08:10:33 -0400 From: Debbie Roos Subject: Register now for our 2013 Beekeeping School! Back by popular demand…the Chatham County Center of North Carolina Cooperative Extension has teamed up again with the Chatham County Beekeepers’ Association to conduct an 8-week Beekeeping School in early 2013. WeContinue Reading
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 11:14:39 -0500 From: Debbie Roos Subject: Register now for Natural Beekeeping Workshop on Jan. 28 The Chatham County Center of North Carolina Cooperative Extension will offer a Natural Beekeeping workshop as part of its Enhancing Sustainability Series on Saturday, January 28, 2012 from 10:00 am-4:30Continue Reading
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 09:35:54 -0400 From: Anne Flannery Subject: hummingbird feeders and yellow jackets I always used to turn the hot water on at the sink BEFORE carrying the hummingbird feeder inside. I tapped the feeder with a fly swatter to make sure any who could escape OUTSIDEContinue Reading
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 04:54:19 -0700 (PDT) From: deborah bair Subject: Re: swarms on hummer feeders Anne: I had a terrible problem with swarming on my hummingbird feeders this year, and finally googled “swarms” & “hummingbird feeders”. This was the main suggestion: spray with PAM! Spray around theContinue Reading
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:18:54 -0400 From: suzanne white Subject: the gazillion little bee mounds… I asked Al Cooke about them, and he said: “There are several species (in at least 3 families) that are generally referred to a”solitary bees.” In general they are pretty harmless and usually serveContinue Reading
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:33:08 -0400 From: Salinda Dahl Subject: Ground bees? My inquiry on the last chatlist was somehow shortened, thus giving the wrong impression. I do not have fire ants on my property. The insect making the hole in the ground, with a small mound of dirtContinue Reading
Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 09:14:33 -0400 From: americanrfp Subject: Bees and Orchards I was surprised by the number of blooms that did not set fruit this year in my orchard. It looked like many other fruit trees I have seen also have not set well this year. Has anyContinue Reading