Wilson County Beekeepers

Photos taken at the April 8, 2013 meeting posted

9 April 2013 by Greg

If you missed the WCBA meeting last night, you lost! Kent Williams was our guest speaker and as usual, he entertained and educated everyone in the room. Kent is a Master Beekeeper and a masterful speaker on the subjects of bees and beekeeping. Last night’s topic was swarms and how to reduce the likelihood that a colony will swarm, but Kent also took questions from the audience on a range of beekeeping issues. The house was filled and our very own Herb Lester was wielding his camera to catch the action. Click the link below to view photos taken at the meeting.

https://wilsoncountybeekeepers.org/photos/wcba-meeting-with-kent-williams-master-beekeeper/

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WCBA Meeting w/ Jim Garrison – Monday, 6 May 2013

9 April 2013 by Greg

The Wilson County Beekeepers Association meets Monday, 6 May 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 May will be: Nectar & Pollen Plants by Jim Garrison
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Note: After you enter the fairgrounds through the main gate, travel east until you reach the exhibit buildings, turn left and we are in the West Building on your right. Look for all the cars.

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TONIGHT — WCBA Meeting – Monday, 8 April 2013

8 April 2013 by Greg

Kent Williams

The Wilson County Beekeepers Association meets Monday, 8 April 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 April will be: Swarms & Swarm Prevention by Kent Williams
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Note: After you enter the fairgrounds through the main gate, travel east until you reach the exhibit buildings, turn left and we are in the West Building on your right. Look for all the cars.

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TBA Queen Rearing Class – 30 March 2013

30 March 2013 by Greg

Check out the photos from the TBA Queen Rearing Class held Saturday, 30 March 2013.

https://wilsoncountybeekeepers.org/photos/tba-queen-rearing-class-30-march-2013/

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WCBA Meeting – Monday, 8 April 2013

28 March 2013 by Greg

Kent Williams

Note: After you enter the fairgrounds through the main gate, travel east until you reach the exhibit buildings, turn left and we are in the West Building on your right. Look for all the cars.

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Bees Buzz Each Other, but Not the Way You Think

28 March 2013 by Greg

by Sid Perkins on 27 March 2013, 2:10 PM

The electric fields that build up on honey bees as they fly, flutter their wings, or rub body parts together may allow the insects to talk to each other, a new study suggests. Tests show that the electric fields, which can be quite strong, deflect the bees’ antennae, which, in turn, provide signals to the brain through specialized organs at their bases.

Scientists have long known that flying insects gain an electrical charge when they buzz around. That charge, typically positive, accumulates as the wings zip through the air—much as electrical charge accumulates on a person shuffling across a carpet. And because an insect’s exoskeleton has a waxy surface that acts as an electrical insulator, that charge isn’t easily dissipated, even when the insect lands on objects, says Randolf Menzel, a neurobiologist at the Free University of Berlin in Germany.

Although researchers have suspected for decades that such electrical fields aid pollination by helping the tiny grains stick to insects visiting a flower, only more recently have they investigated how insects sense and respond to such fields. [ … continue reading ]

Source: http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2013/03/bees-buzz-each-other-but-not-the.html

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