NH Winter Loss Survey

You can find the survey at:  https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/NH2019HiveLoss.  We will be collecting data through 4/30.    

If you’ve taken the survey in the past, you’ll find that most of the questions are the same.  We just tweaked a few to make them clearer.   Also, I’ve added a few towns in MA & VT  in the “location” question. 

The survey is open to all beekeepers in the state – you do not need to be part of NHBA to participate.   The results will be published on the NHBA website in June.

We will be giving away a 1 year membership to the NHBA to one lucky survey participant. In addition,  the NH Bee club who has the largest percentage of membership participation will win $50 toward refreshments at a future meeting.

If you have questions or would prefer to submit your information over the phone or by paper, please contact Heather Achilles (heather.nhba@gmail.com; 603-767-8155)

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Video of “Setting Up Your Hive” with Troy Hall

From the KBA Meeting on March 9th, 2019

Click HERE to view the video

March Meeting – Change in Venue!

What: March Meeting

When: Saturday, March 9th, 9AM

Where: Newport Junior/Senior High School @ 245 N Main St, Newport, NH

Speaker: Troy Hall of Hall Apiaries

KBA Newsletter: February / March 2019

KBA newsletter FEB MAR 2019

Click on the above link to view the Newsletter

We Count on Bees, but Can Bees Count?

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/06/spelling-bees-no-but-they-can-do-arithmetic-say-researchers

An interesting article (click above) suggesting that bees may be able to add and subtract. It may be that this is simply an example sequential pattern recognition, but worth considering the argument that bees can do math.

KBA 2019 Speaker Schedule

Date	Speaker	Company
March 9th	Troy Hall	Hall Apiaries
May 11th	Sam Comfort	Anarchy Apiaries
October 12th	Andrew Munkres	Lemon Fair Honey Works
November 9th	Kirk Webster	Champlain Valley Bees and Queens

Please note that all speaking events are free to all current members of the Kearsarge Beekeepers Association. These talks are open to all, a $10 fee will be asked of any non-members wishing to attend. All these meetings will be held at the Warner Town Hall located at 5 E Main St.Warner, NH 03278

January Meeting: On the 12th at 9AM

Held at the Warner Town Hall…. 9AM. Landi Simone will be the Speaker. Her topics will include Reading Frames and Open Feeding. You can learn more about her at www.GooseRockFarm.com  She also has several beekeeping videos on YouTube.

Note:  There is a $10 charge for non-members for this meeting