The ESHPA Fall 2008 meeting will be held on November 7 & 8, at the Comfort Inn & Suites, 6701 Buckley Road North Syracuse, New York.

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September is National Honey Month, and this year the National Honey Board (NHB) urges consumers to explore the many diverse uses of honey. Read More...

Beekeeper extraordinaire, Jim Fischer, presents "Making Creamed Honey."
Suffolk County Farm and Education Center, Yaphank NY Read More...

No President’s Message this month, we’re on our honeymoon!
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Words cannot express my thanks to you, my dear friends, for all your prayers and cards and support during this terrible loss of my loving husband Clifford. Read More...

By Juergen Jaenicke, MG
(Courtesy Cornell Cooperative Extension)

This "pick your own" list was welcomed last year and I like to repeat it for 2008 with some new ones added and some that no longer let people pick. Read More...

Long time LIBC member and Recording Secretary, Clifford Owen Still, 66, of Bayport, died on July 13, 2008. Read More...

Long Island Beekeepers Club Monthly Meeting Minutes, July 20, 2008
Suffolk County Farm, Yaphank Read More...

Dr. Larry Connor, renown EAS entomologist, professor, author, and publisher, will be reading from his new book “Bee Sex Essentials.”

Suffolk County Farm and Education Center, Yaphank NY Read More...

On Father’s Day, June 15, everyone enjoyed “Drone Appreciation Day” and a BBQ at the home of Juergen and Brigitte...
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"The Mystery of the Honeybees' Secret" (Three Cousins Detective Club) by Elspeth Campbell Murphy (Author), Joe Nordstrom (Illustrator)
ISBN-13: 978-1556618505

"The Mystery of the Honeybees’ Secret" is part of the Three Cousins Detective Club series. A charming read for the Young Readers set, Sarah-Jane Cooper and her cousins put on beekeeper outfits and visit a neighbor, who keeps bees as a hobby. He shows them how to watch the bees without upsetting them. But then the cousins spot a stranger snooping around the hives and another stranger asks questions about the bees. What are these men up to? To keep the hives safe, the cousins must find out.

I have gotten lots of mileage out of my bee swarm picture this past month. So many people want to know how our bees are doing, so I whip out the photos and get on my soap box, and a ten minute lecture on honey bees begins. These mini educational lectures have been so satisfying to spread the word about our dear little friends.

By Juergen Jaenicke, MG
(Courtesy Cornell Cooperative Extension)

It’s frustrating when you go out to the garden to harvest fresh flowers or vegetables, only to find they’ve succumbed to wilt, powdery mildew, or any of the other many problems that foil our outdoor efforts. Read More...

I'm happy to report that our Club's website has been as busy as a, well, you know. Read More...

The Annual Eastern Apicultural Society Summer Conference will be on August 4-8, 2008, at Murray State University, Murray, Kentucky.
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Join us for a Father’s Day BBQ and hear our Master Beekeepers present their Top 10 Tip Lists for Long Island Beekeeping.
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We had a big turnout for our Progressive Hive Tour on Sunday, May 18.
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"Keeping Bees and Making Honey" by Alison Benjamin and Brian McCallum
ISBN-13: 978-0715328101

A lovely new book just out in paper back. It has wonderful illustrations and is well organized and would make a great addition to a beginner beekeepers library, or a great Father’s Day gift.

Don’t forget to inform your respective County that you have bees, so they do not spray for mosquitos!

Suffolk County: info@suffolkmosquitocontrolplan.org

Nassau County: Health Department Mosquito Surveillance, 572-1211, Monday Through Friday from 7:45am until 3:30pm.

We should rename May, "Swarm Month". Read More...

By Juergen Jaenicke, MG
(Courtesy Cornell Cooperative Extension)

Control the adult stage of the black vine weevil (or taxus weevi) now and thru mid-July. Read More...

By Sean Bonney

I was always interested in social insects such as bees and ants. I thought bees the most interesting because of their value to people. Read More...

The May 2008 meeting was different from any meetings in our club’s 59 year history (at least to my knowledge). Read More...

We will visit the apiaries of three LIBC members. WE WILL BE STARTING AT 1:00 PM.

The locations of participating apiaries will be in your newsletter.

At our meeting on April 13, Herman Danenhower from the Pennsylvania State Beekeeepers Association gave us a wonderful presentation about producing comb honey, filled with good humor and good advice.
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By Juergen Jaenicke, MG
(Courtesy Cornell Cooperative Extension)

SUNY Farmingdale will host the "Garden Festival" on Saturday and Sunday, May 31st and June 1st, from 10 AM to 5 PM, at the Garden Center. Read More...

Another rainy day, of course, my day off. No way to work in the garden or on the bees. Read More...

A swarm of bees mysteriously surrounded an upper East Side newspaper box on Wednesday and held cops and firefighters at bay until LIBC's Jim Fischer collected the swarm. Read More...

By Anne Raver
Copyright 2008 The New York Times Company

I’ve been watching the bumblebees flying around the kitchen porch of our old farmhouse in Maryland, and wondering if they have a nest nearby, maybe under the eaves. They like shady spots, protected from the wind and the rain. There are probably some mason bees, too, holed up in the old boards of the barn, or in holes drilled by wood beetles in the trunks of dead trees. Read More...

Minutes of Meeting of Sunday, 13 April 2008, held at Holtsville Ecology Park. Read More...

As part of the “Haagen Dazs Loves Honey Bees” campaign, Haagen Dazs began airing a commercial on April 20... Read More...

Pennsylvania commercial beekeeper Herman Danenhower shares his comb honey production secrets.
Town of Brookhaven Ecology Site, Park & Animal Preserve, Holtsville NY Read More...

A good time was had by all the March 16 “Mead Madness” presentation by Howland Blackiston, the author of “Beekeeping for Dummies”, at my home in Manhattan! If you were not able to attend, here’s exciting news: a DVD of Howland’s talk will be available from the Club Library.
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Well here I am again, back in computer mode with a new computer, hopefully not going to crash and burn like last month. I apologize to you all for that disaster, and hope we have smooth sailing for a few more years to come. Read More...

Minutes of Meeting of 16 March 2008 held at the Manhattan, New York City residence of President Joanne Thomas and Corresponding Secretary Jim Fischer at 2:30PM. Read More...

By Juergen Jaenicke, MG
(Courtesy Cornell Cooperative Extension)

Now its time to get out there and shake off the winter doldroms and get busy in the garden. Read More...

Sorry, due to limited space this event is now full.

Howland Blackiston, author of “Beekeeping for Dummies” serves up Mead Madness on St. Patrick’s Day Eve.
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The AP is reporting that New Jersey officials are trying to create some buzz about beekeeping. Read More...

Thank you to Club member Dick Cartwright for submitting photos of his beautifully painted pastel hives for use on our website.
You can see his photos throughout the website and in our photo album. Read More...

This building was initially an experimental bee-house placed in Finsbury Park, London. It was funded by an agency charged with looking into the country's policy in keeping bees. 99% of all bees in the UK are kept solely by amateurs and beekeeping generally is on the decline. This is obviously very concerning to the government as bee pollination contributes greatly to the country's economy. Read More...

Have you ever wanted to take a college-level course in beekeeping? Read More...

LIBC President Joanne Thomas presents “Health and Fitness for Beekeepers” as featured at EAS 2007.
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church Hall, Patchogue NY Read More...

Joanne owes me a car wash! Her bees have been pooping all over my white van!!! Read More...

Our Club is holding a Honey Bee Haiku contest this Winter and Spring. Create your own Haiku poem. Enter as many Haikus as you wish.

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We made a spiral sliced ham today (inspired by you!) and brought it to the Brooklyn Beekeepers Brunch we attended. Read More...

Annual dues are $35.
Please send a check to Conni Still, at 82 Stephen Road, Bayport, NY 11705, payable to LIBC, or pay directly at the next meeting.
Please e-mail membership@longislandbeekeepers.org if you change your postal address, phone number or email address.

By Juergen Jaenicke, MG
(Courtesy Cornell Cooperative Extension)

Get out there and get some fresh air and exercise, remember your New Year’s resolution! Read More...

Attention: Someone purchased an extractor at the Smithtown meeting that I had donated for Club and Queen Breeding Program benefit. You emailed me that there was a problem of a missing gear. My computer crashed and I lost all emails and thus your name and phone number and address. I was supposed to give you a call and take a look but I can’t find the information. Please email me again: raymond.lackey@baesystems.com. (I have a new computer.) I am very sorry for the delay. -Ray Lackey

Our goal is to have an interesting and entertaining speaker at every Club meeting. If you would like to speak or if you would like to suggest a speaker, please email me at president@longislandbeekeepers.org.

We would love to fill our website with pictures of our members' bees, hives, gardens, and honey!
Submit them to our webmaster at webmaster@longislandbeekeepers.org, and we'll use them here on the website so visitors see for themselves the fascinating world of Long Island beekeeping.

Sir Edmund Percival Hillary, a world famous beekeeper, passed away today. Along with his brother Rex, Sir Edmund began keeping honey bees in his native New Zealand because it allowed him to do some mountain climbing during the winter months (which would be the summer months in our hemisphere).
He was also relatively well-known for being one of the first climbers, along with Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay, to reach the summit of Mount Everest on May 29, 1953.

Minutes of Meeting of Sunday, 11 November 2007, held at St. Paul’s Parish Hall in Patchogue. Due to a scheduling snafu, we were unable to meet at the Holtsville Ecology Park. Read More...