Posted in Announcements on 4 February 2013| Leave a Comment »
The Wilson County Beekeepers Association meets Monday, 4 March 2013 at 7:00 PM at the James E. Ward Agricultural Center on the Wilson County Fairgrounds in Lebanon Tennessee.
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The program for March: Natural Beekeeping w/ Trevor Qualls
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Note: After you enter the fairgrounds through the main gate, we are in the West Building (2nd building on your left). Look for all the cars.
Posted in Announcements on 1 February 2013| Leave a Comment »
The Wilson County Beekeepers Association meets Monday, 4 February 2013 at 7:00 PM at the James E. Ward Agricultural Center on the Wilson County Fairgrounds in Lebanon Tennessee.
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The program for February: Homemade queens, requeening & splits w/ Dann Purvis
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Note: After you enter the fairgrounds through the main gate, we are in the West Building (2nd building on your left). Look for all the cars.
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Posted in Announcements on 31 January 2013| Leave a Comment »
Honeybees have facinating eyes : all five of them. Two compound eyes on either side of their head, and 3 “extra” eyes on top. That’s a bit antropromorphic, we humans think of two eyes as being “normal”, but for most in the Hymenoptera order five eyes is pretty normal
All about structure and purpose
Two compound eyes can be seen on either side of honeybees’ heads. You must look a lot closer to see the three small eyes, the ocelli, that lie between their antennaes on the top of their head. This blog post is about the structure of those eyes and the purpose those eyes serve. A previous blog, What Colors Do Bees See,is about how they see color (and painting bee boxes).
TWO COMPOUND EYES;
We can all see the large compound eyes on bees, especially on drones. Each of these compound eyes has 6,900 tiny lenses…
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Posted in Announcements on 25 January 2013| Leave a Comment »
The Wilson County Beekeepers Association meets Monday, 4 February 2013 at 7:00 PM at the James E. Ward Agricultural Center on the Wilson County Fairgrounds in Lebanon Tennessee.
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The program for February: Homemade queens, requeening & splits w/ Dann Purvis
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Note: After you enter the fairgrounds through the main gate, we are in the West Building (2nd building on your left). Look for all the cars.
Posted in Announcements on 17 January 2013| Leave a Comment »
The 2013 Heartland Apicultural Society Conference will be held 11, 12 & 13 July 2013 at Tennessee Tech University in Cookeville, TN. Make plans to attend now.
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wcba
Posted in Announcements on 8 January 2013| 2 Comments »
The Wilson County Beekeeping Association is conducting a beekeeping short course on Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday evening, January 22, 23 & 24 at 7:00 PM in the West Building of the Ward Agricultural Center.
The course takes three nights to complete and runs from 7:00 to 9:00 PM each night. The first two nights will be a class-room setting with video and discussion. We will cover all aspects of beekeeping. The third night will be hands-on. We will be building hives ready for use. The cost is $25/person or $45/couple. Contact Petra Mitchell at petrabee@hotmail.com to register.
The James E. Ward Agricultural Center is located at 945 E Baddour Pkwy, Lebanon, TN 37087 (the Wilson County Fairgrounds). After you enter the fairgrounds through the main gate, we are in the West Building (2nd building on your left).
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