2013 Summer Conference—

June 1 2013

Ohio State Beekeepers Association

Hosted by Guernsey-Noble Beekeepers Association

with financial support provided by the

Don Meyers Eastern Apiary Program

Pritchard Laughlin Civic Center,

Cambridge OH

OSBA

Supporting beekeeping

education in Ohio

for over 100 years

BL Plastics

Bee Culture

Betterbee

Blue Sky Bee Supply

Brushy Mountain Bee Farm

Modern Beekeeper

Reid Apiary and Bee-tique

Simpson’s Bee Supply

Cover photos courtesy of

OSBA Master Beekeeper Instructors:

Tim Arheit

Bill Starrett

Vendors at the OSBA Summer Conference:

Reid’s Apiary

&

“Bee-tique

reidapiary@bright.net

740.643.2925

A Special Thank You to Donors:

C. F. Koehnen

Dadant & Sons

B & B Honey

Humble Abodes

A.I. Root

Crooked Brook Inc.

OSBA would also like to thank the staff at

Bee Culture Magazine:

Dawn Feagan for her tireless work to make the

silent auction a success.

Kathy Summer for her willingness to help out

Kim Flottum for his constant support

OSBA Summer Conference 2013 Program

Sponsored by : Guernsey-Noble Beekeepers Association

Pritchard Laughlin Civic Center, Cambridge OH

8:00 a.m.-9:00 p.m.

Registration

Coffee and Doughnuts, Visit the Vendors

9:00—9:45

President’s Welcome and Keynote Speaker Dr. Greg Hunt

Auditorium

9:45-10:00

Visit the Vendors

Session 1

10:00—10:45

Auditorium: On The Radar - What's New: Kim Flottum What you need to know to be a better beekeeper G

Room A: Going to the Fair—Wax Preparation: Joe Kovaleski. Learn about beeswax from the starting point

in the hive through the process of turning it into a usable, finished, award winning product . K

Room B: Queen Management: Nina Bagley How to properly introduce your investment—the queen! H

Beeyard: Basic Hive Inspection (Preparing for the Apprentice Test): Kimberly Flippen Review what the

beekeeper should look for when conducting hive inspections and the inspection process in general: the need

to keep good records, healthy hives, etc. E

Visit the Vendors 10:45—11:00

Session 2

11:00—11:45

Auditorium: Dealing with Bee Kills Associated with Planting Corn: Dr. Greg Hunt E

Room A: Going to the Fair– Baking/Cooking: Dawn Arheit How to cook with Honey, modify your own reci-

pes to include honey, and how to prepare your dish to win at the State competition and your local Fairs. O

Room B: What a Bee Wants: Denise Ellsworth The rewards plants offer to pollinators and the biology be-

hind them. Resources to help locate and select bee plants, including websites, phone Apps and PDF docu-

ments. F

Beeyard: Splitting for Increase and Nucs for Sale or Overwintering: Dwight Wilson We will be making a

nuc and showing several uses of the double-screen board. Topics include re-queening, stopping swarms,

and running a two-queen hive. E

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Lunch—Visit the Vendors 11:45-1:00

Pre-ordered lunches will be served in the Vendor Area

Session 3

1:00—1:45

Auditorium: Honey Bee Nutrition: Kim Flottum. There’s so much more to honey bee nutrition than a hive

top feeder and a supplement patty. E

Room A: Going to the Fair—Honey: Carmen Conrad. Find out what the Honey Judges are looking for

and tips from Carmen on how she gets her entries ready for the Blue Ribbons. C

Room B: Ohio Bee Research Update: Doug Sponsler Results of the 2012 New Colony Survey, compar-

ing the success of honey bees in different landscapes with an emphasis on comparing urban/rural hives. O

Beeyard: Advanced Hive Inspection: John Grafton. Learn to analyze different situations in the hive. E

Visit the Vendors 1:45—2:00

Session 4

2:00—2:45

Auditorium: Strategies for Controlling Your Mites: Dr. Greg Hunt A

Room A: ODA Inspection Program from an Inspector’s View: Kimberly Flippen E

Room B: Overwintering Hives and Nucs: Tim Arheit Discussing the best practices and methods for

overwintering your hives and nucs for a strong start in the Spring E

Beeyard: Hive Removal Demonstration: Tom Winland Demonstration of bee removal from a log O

Visit the Vendors 2:45—3:00

Q&A With Expert Panel in the Auditorium 3:00—3:30

Closing Remarks and Drawings in the Auditorium 3:30—4:00

Please remember to fill out the OSBA Summer 2013 Evaluation Forms and place them in the boxes

by the exit doors

Have a safe drive home and we’ll see you at the

OSBA Fall Conference on Saturday, November 2 in Reynoldsburg OH

Note: Bold letters after the Session Description indicate Master Beekeeper Category

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Meet the OSBA Summer Conference Speakers

Dawn Arheit– darheit@busybrealty.net Wife and personal assistant to a beekeeper for over 13 years, mother of 3 beautiful children, owner of Busy B Realty of Lima Ohio, and Superintendent of Allen County Ohio Fairgrounds for Bees & Honey for 8 years. Tim Arheit—tarheit@honeyrunapiaries.com Tim had been a beekeeper for over 13 years and rais-es NWC Queens commercially at his small operation of 150 hives in Northwest Ohio. He is Vice-President of the Northwest Ohio Beekeepers Association and Vice President of OSBA. Nina Bagley—ninabagley@me.com Nina Bagley is the beekeeper for Franklin Park Apiary. She has been working with bees and with a Master Beekeeper for the past 9 years. She started raising queens 4 years ago and is now raising her own queens, and shipping them nationally. She has com-pleted queen classes and instrumental insemination classes given by Dr. Joe Latshaw. She has given talks regionally for beekeeping clubs and is known for bee talks to garden clubs throughout Columbus Ohio. The Twigs Garden Club made a $10,000 honorarium do-nation to Children’s Hospital in Nina’s name for giving bee talks. She teaches beekeeping classes and men-tors beekeepers. Carmen Conrad—carmen@hiveandhoney.com Carmen was the OSBA Beekeeper of the Year 2007, and COBA Beekeeper of the Year 2011. She is the winner of blue ribbons at State and National levels. She is a Certified Honey Judge, and she has been in the bee-keeping business for 25 years. Denise Ellsworth—ellsworth.2@osu.edu Denise directs the honey bee and native pollinator ed-ucation program through the OSU Department of En-tomology on the OARDC campus in Wooster. In this outreach position, Denise supports and teaches bee-keepers, farmers, and gardeners through a variety of workshops, written materials and electronic resources Kimberly Flippen— kflippen@columbus.rr.com Kim is a member of OSBA, ECOBA, COBA and Order of the Queen, and has been the Apiary Inspector for 4 years in Fairfield County. She is co-owner of Honey Valley Apiaries, where she raises Ohio bred queens and sells local honey with apiaries in Franklin and Fairfield County. She is currently the OSBA Heart of

Ohio Region Rep. She gives talks on the inspection process for local clubs and organizations as well as instruction on beginning beekeeping. Past co-coach of COBA ‘s Fun in the Beeyard. Kim Flottum—kim@beeculture.com Editor of Bee Culture nearly 30 years, author of 4 books on several different beekeeping and beekeep-ing related topics, Past OSBA President, and VP, For-mer Chairman of the Board, EAS John Grafton—johngrafton654@gmail.com John retired from the Ohio Department of Agriculture in 2008 after spending 32 years with the apiary in-spection program. He started keeping bees in 1964 with a 4-H project and has had bees ever since. Two awards he has received are the OSBA Ohio Beekeep-er of the Year Award, and the Exceptional Service Award presented by the Apiary Inspectors of America. John has held various offices in OSBA and is a past President of OSBA. He recently worked with Jim Tew to develop a series of videos for the beginning bee-keeper. These videos are available to view on the OSBA web site. John and his wife Katie reside near Bloomingdale, OH in Jefferson County with their chil-dren Amanda and Clinton nearby. Greg Hunt—ghunt@purdue.edu Greg Hunt is a professor at Purdue University and is working with beekeepers in Indiana to breed better strains of bees. He graduated from John Carroll Uni-versity and he earned a MS degree in Plant Patholo-gy from Penn State in 1984. He then worked as a lab tech at the University of Wisconsin, Madison where he became a hobby beekeeper. His interest in bees led him to enroll in the graduate program at the University of California-Davis where he received a PhD in Ento-mology. He has published over 60 scientific papers on bees, including the first genetic map of the honey bee genome. He has served as Chairman of the Heartland Apiculture Society, Trustee for the Founda-tion for the Preservation of Honey Bees, and President of the American Association of Professional Apicultur-ists. His research focuses on honey bee genetics and bee health. Joe Kovaleski—josephkovaleski@sbcglobal.net Joe has been keeping bees for 19 years and is an EAS Master Beekeeper, West Virginia Master Bee-keeper, Ohio Master Beekeeper, EAS director for Ohio, and 2008 Ohio State Beekeeper of the Year.

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Along with his wife Suzan, he produces beeswax candles and honey for sale at fairs and festivals, and they have won many Best of Show and Blue Ribbons in honey and molded wax contests, to include the 2012 EAS Bee Culture Magazine Award for Beeswax, and the 2012 West Virginia State Beekeepers Best of Show Awards for Comb Honey, Extracted Honey, and Beeswax. Joe is Crossroads Region Director for OSBA. He is a member of the new Buckeye Queen Producers group in Ohio, and a member of the West Virginia Queen Producers Assoc., raising queens in the northern panhandle. Doug Sponsler—sponsler.18@buckeyemail.osu.edu Doug has an undergraduate degree in Biology from Cedarville University and is currently working on a gradu-ate degree in Entomology at OSU. Working with his advisor, Dr. Reed Johnson, he is studying the relation-ship between honey bees and their surrounding landscape, with a particular focus on how bees respond to urban and agricultural environments. He is grateful for the support from local beekeepers that he has re-ceived, and he looks forward to the continuing partnership. Dwight Wilson—djlwilson@aol.com Dwight has been keeping bees for 40 years. He is President of the North West Ohio Beekeeper Association. He enjoys working with bees and people who want to get into beekeeping. Tom Winland—winlandtom@yahoo.com Tom is a 2nd generation beekeeper and an East Central Ohio Beekeepers Association Muskingum County Trustee and mentor. He has been keeping honey bees for about 5 years and cutting hives out of trees and houses for the past 4 years. Along the way passing this knowledge off to the next generation of beekeepers.

Meet Our Speakers (Continued from page 7)

Upcoming OSBA Activities July 28 through August 4: OSBA Tent at the Ohio State Fair

An educational table on bees and pollination

A daily bee beard demonstration

Bee-friendly flowers from Oakland Nursery

Two Photo-Ops

A corn hole game for the kids to play

A live working bee hive

Observation hive showing a marked queen

Honey tasting table

Vendors selling honey and hive products

Special Guest—the American Honey Queen –

Cooking Demonstration

Promote your club at our OSBA Tent:

Your club can have a table—contact Nina Bagley

at ninabagley@me.com

Send a club banner to John George at:

8815 Surrey Lane, Plain City, OH 43064

Honey Contest at the Ohio State Fair:

Earn the title “Best Honey in Ohio”

Information about the guidelines

www.ohiostatefair.com/osf/downloadbooks/

specialevents/2013/2013AntFashArtsCrafts4000.pdf

On-line registration: /ohioa.fairmanager.com/

OSBA Fall Conference—November 2: Reynoldsburg, OH

Keynote Speaker: Phil Craft

Guernsey-Noble Beekeepers Association

Jim Blakeman Roger Seaton Marge Seaton Darrell Hopps Diana Tolliver Philip Dobeck

George Reynolds Dave Milligan

Jon Cleary

OSBA Conference Committee

Tim Arheit Terry Lieberman-Smith

Thank You Volunteers!