Supplies for Sale

1 Ventilated Roof - offers great protection from the elements and insulates your hive in the summer and winter! The roof fits over the normal lid of the Golden Mean Hive.
This new Ventilated Roof has screened vents on both ends and all along the top of the roof. This allows for proper ventilation and air flow and keeps any unwanted critters from being to access the area underneath the roof. Our roof designs are modeled after the way that most house roofs are constructed, with a vented peak. The roof is designed to breathe and create a lot of air exchange through natural micro convection. Purchase price $89. Your price $50.

1 Glass Honey Comb Display- Golden Mean frames of honey comb.
- Acacia wood, Hand crafted
- Hand carved wooden honey drip bowl

- Removable glass, for ease of access and cleaning
- Accommodates Top Bar Frames of honeycomb. Purchase price $150. Your price $80.

Carry all for bee equipment free if all Top Bar equipment is purchased together.

Total cost for everything $700. Cash preferred. Savings $490.

Cindy Ericksen
95 Mar Vista Way
Port Angeles, WA 98362 phone: 360 477-9335

Local Sequim Honey for Sale

ocal Sequim honey for sale. Medicine free hives to guarantee honey as pure as nature intended. RAW and Unfiltered, this honey is strained but retains existing pollen composition, acting as a source of natural vitamins, antioxidants, enzymes proteins and minerals.I have three extractions. Spring, Summer and early Fall. Some delicious creamed honey is also available for 1.00 more. Six blue ribbons at the county fair, the tastes are different but all are great.

Small sampler 1/4 pint for $4.00 1/2 pint $6.00 1 pint $11.00

Herb Senft (360) 808-5619

Of interest to new beekeepers

I remain a honey bee supporter and club member but will "retire" from the attempt at bee keeping. Therefore, I have assorted paraphernalia available plus a top bar Warre hive (built by Walt and never occupied) that I would give to a young man or woman who is just starting out.

Thank you very much,
George Will georgeandjolie@yahoo.com

February 9th - NOPBA Guest Speaker is Sue Cobey!

NOPBA is extremely pleased to announce our guest speaker February 9 will be Sue Cobey.  Sue is an internationally recognized honey bee expert from nearby Whidbey Island. The recipient of numerous honors and awards, Sue presents her work at conferences and seminars worldwide and publishes extensively in trade journals and professionally peer-reviewed publications. She formerly managed several honey bee research labs, including those at UC Davis and Ohio State University. She has also worked at the USDA Honey Bee Lab, Baton Rouge, and in commercial queen production in Florida and California.

Beginning in 2010, Sue joined WSU Department of Entomology as a Honey Bee Research Extension Associate working to enhance honey bee stocks and improve colony health through breeding programs that include incorporation of diverse genetics collected from all around the world.

Largely due to Sue’s passion, determination, and diligence, WSU is currently the only laboratory in the United States permitted to import honey bee germplasm from outside the borders of the United States.

Please join us February 9th when Sue will discuss these topics and share her adventures traveling around the world in search of honey bees in their native habitats. You won’t want to miss this unique opportunity to hear from a researcher whose life work has been successfully improving the viability of North American honey bees.

January General Meeting to be held in Sequim

Our next meeting, the January 2020 meeting, is being held at the Sequim Library on January 12 from 11:30 AM to 2;30 PM..  Due to a scheduling conflict, our regular location at the Port Angeles Library is not available.  This is for January only.  Please don’t forget:   JANUARY = SEQUIM 

This meeting in Sequim will include the first beginning beekeeper class of the year as well.  

Sequim Library
30 North Sequim Avenue
Sequim, WA 98382
360.683.1161

Class begins at noon, regular meeting at 1:00.  Another reminder will be sent out as we get closer.

Clallam Conservation District Courses in January

Clallam Conservation District will soon be offering a couple of short courses of interest to beekeepers involving planting native species for pollinators.  They can also help with your soil tests.  Please find more information on their excellent website.

January 8 :    Planting Native Species for Pollinators, 3:00 - 4:30 PM, Port Angeles Library

January 9 :    Planting and Maintaining a Native Landscape, 3:30 - 5:00 PM, Port Angeles Library

January 16 :  Planting and Maintaining a Native Landscape, Sequim, 3:30 - 5:00 PM,  Dungeness Audubon Center

Plan Ahead for 2020 NUCs

Member Joyce Danner is thinking for driving to Rochester, WA in an April/May time frame to purchase NUCs from Hive5 Bees. If anyone is interested in ordering, please call Joyce at 425-444-7598. Prices look to be in the $155 range for one to four NUCs, prices going down from there, but they do offer club discounts for orders of 25 or more.

Apprentice Beekeeping Certificate

Want something fun for the off-season? Enrollment is still open for the University of Montana Onliine Beekeeping Program. The Apprentice Class (first in series) is equivalent to about twenty hours of instruction. It begins November 4th and runs six weeks until December 13th. Classes are completely online.

Visit the program website for complete information about the course, schedule, textbooks, and system requirements.

Year-End Wrap Up

Our regular November meeting (and yearly club elections) will be held on Sunday, November 10th. Beginning beekeeper classes have concluded for the season but we’re inviting everyone to show up at 12:00 NOON for a year-end “get-together” to share some fun, tell stories, talk bees, and enjoy some cakes, cookies, coffee, and tea. If you have any honey to share, bring it along! We’ll set up a sampling table!

Fruit Show

Please don’t forget the Olympic Orchard Society will be having their Fall Fruit Show next Saturday, November 2nd, from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM at Trinity United Methodist Church, 100 South Blake St. in Sequim.

Buy - Sell - Trade - Want - Need - Giveaway

I remain a honey bee supporter and club member but will "retire" from the attempt at bee keeping. Therefore, I have assorted paraphernalia available plus a top bar Warre hive (built by Walt and never occupied) that I would give to a young man or woman who is just starting out.

Thank you very much,
George Will georgeandjolie@yahoo.com

Local Sequim honey for sale. Medicine free hives to guarantee honey as pure as nature intended.

RAW and Unfiltered, this honey is strained but retains existing pollen composition, acting as a source of natural vitamins, antioxidants, enzymes proteins and minerals.

I have three extractions. Spring, Summer and early Fall. Some delicious creamed honey is also available for 1.00 more.
Six blue ribbons at the county fair, the tastes are different but all are great.

Small sampler 1/4 pint for $4.00 1/2 pint $6.00 1 pint $11.00

Herb Senft (360) 808-5619



Your Help is needed at the Clallam County Fair, 2019!

We’re looking forward to the Clallam County Fair, August 15 - 18, 2019.

Some booth volunteers signed up at the July and August meetings and we still need volunteers! There are 25 slots available. Won’t you please take a look at our online signup page and see what might fit into your schedule? You will provide a much-needed service to your bee club, have a wonderful time, and you will receive free tickets to the fair!

A New Book Donation...

The library recently received a new book donation entitled “A Sting in the Tale: My Adventures with Bumblebees” by Dave Goulson, one of the UK's most respected conservationists and the founder of the Bumblebee Conservation Trust. The following newspaper article entitled “Bumblebee Friends” clipped from the Peninsula Daily News, Peninsula Voices, was discovered inside the front cover of the book:

I am a citizen scientist volunteer for the Bumble Bee Atlas in Clallam County. Bumble Bee Watch appreciates incidental sightings o our native bumble bees from everyone, even if not an official citizen scientist. Please take a cellphone or digital camera photo of the bumble bee on the flower and upload to www.bumblebeewatch.org. Observations by hikers in Olympic National Forest and Olympic National Park are especially valuable. Please make a note of the date, time, type of flower and exact location (latitude and longitude) if possible. Garden photos of a bumble bee on a flower are also useful. This is a study of bumble bees only. Honey bees and other species of bees are not included. Bumblebees can be identified by their fat, furry bodies and by comparing them to pictures on the Bumble Bee Watch website. Thank you for contributing to the knowledge and preservation of our native bumble bee pollinators. — Wendy Goldberg, Sequim

It appears to be an interesting read and the donation to NOPBA is much appreciated.

Upcoming Presentation: Learn more about queens, requeening, and winter bees.

Who: Dave Noble, Apiarist – Stratford Ecological Center, Delaware, Ohio

Date: Saturday, September 7, 2019

Time: 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Where: Carver Room, Sequim Library
630 N Sequim Ave, Sequim, WA 98382

Presentation outline:

  • Open/Introductions

  • Queen Rearing Fundamentals
    This is for those who may not want to raise their own queens but want and need to understand the process a bit better.

  • Queen Quality
    What makes a good queen. The value and importance of a good queen.

  • Break

  • Re-Queening
    When and why to re-queen. How honey bee colonies re-queen themselves and what we can learn from that. Autumn re-queening.

  • Local Bees/Queens.
    Even small-scale beekeepers can produce and sell nucs. Working with queen producers to develop a more sustainable beekeeping community. 

  • Break

  • Winter Prep/Healthy Winter Bees
    Mite monitoring and feeding before winter. 

  • Questions & Answers

Annual NOPBA Family Potluck BBQ & Swapmeet

Sunday, September 8, 2019 from Noon to 3:00 PM

Meats and drinks furnished. Please bring a salad, dessert, or a side dish. Bring your chair (we need a few tables, too!) A Swap-and-Shop Table will be set up for new and used beekeeping equipment for sale, trade, or giveaway.

Hosted at the residence of Marshall and BJ Rambeau, 361 Lisel Lane, Port Angeles.

When heading south on Deer Park Road, look for Lisel Lane to the left (East) after approximately 2.3 miles from Highway 101.

NWDBA Honey Bee Conference

NWDBA Honey Bee Conference at https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4248173

The Lineup:

Saturday Sept. 21st
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM Andony Melathopoulos
Doing the Multiplication: expanding your apiary the old school and "the Next Generation" way
(covers installing packages, splitting and making nucs)

10:15 AM-11:30 PM Randy Oliver
Reading The Combs: Understanding Bee Biology Over the Course of a Season
By acquiring a better understanding of the biology of bees, nutrition, parasites, and pathogens over the course of the season, and by learning to "read the combs," the beekeeper can then make better informed management decisions adapted to his/her particular situation.

11:30am-1:00pm Lunch Break

1:00 PM-2:15 PM Andony Melathopoulos
Unsung Bee Diseases and How to Manage Them
(European foulbrood, chalkbrood, viruses, nosema)

(2:15 PM -3:30 PM Kevin Oldenburg CANCELLED - looking for new speaker)

3:30 PM - 3:45 PM Break

3:45 PM - 5:00 PM Randy Oliver
Oxalic Acid Tips
As varroa develops resistance to the synthetic miticides, beekeepers must learn to use alternative treatments. Oxalic acid has a long history of successful use, and can be applied by different methods (dribble, sublimation, extended-release). Tips from someone who has used oxalic acid for nearly two decades.

About Our Speakers:

Randy Oliver is a commercial beekeeper in California and runs the scientificbeekeeping.com website. He is a careful researcher, and the author of a monthly column in American Bee Journal.

Andony Melathopoulos is an Assistant Professor in Pollinator Health Extension in the Department of Horticulture at Oregon State University, which was the first such position in the United States. He also sits on the Steering Committee of the Oregon Bee Project, which coordinates pollinator health work across state agencies and hosts a weekly podcast called PolliNation. In 2018, Andony was recognized with the National Pollinator Advocate Award by the North American Pollinator Protection Campaign.

Kevin Oldenburg is the current President of Washington State Beekeepers Association. Dr. Oldenburg received his undergraduate degree in Biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from UCLA. He founded 2nd Sight Bioscience in 2014 with a focus on using automation, robotics, and new technologies in the field of agriculture. He currently serves as the CEO and President of 2nd Sight BioScience. Kevin is an 8-year journeyman beekeeper who doesn’t like honey but loves watching his bees.