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FSBA 92nd Annual
Convention VIEW PHOTOS
hosted by the
Tampa Bay Beekeepers Association
Nov 1 thru Nov 3, 2012
to be held at the Mainsail Suites Hotel & Conference Center
Tampa, Florida
Tentative
Schedule will consist of Reception
Cookout (Thursday) and then on Friday the Main Program Seminar/Conference,
Honey Show, Awards Banquet, Honey Queen crowning and Auction.
Convention concludes on Saturday morning following the
Business Meeting (Election of Officers). Checkout time is
noon. Keynote speaker is scheduled to be
Dr.
Diana Sammataro, USDA-ARS Research Laboratory, Tucson, AZ.
She is one of the best known educators and researchers in the
beekeeping field. She is credited with over 37 scientific
papers and seven books, including a brand new volume on
Honey Bee Colony Health and her classic The Beekeepers Handbook.... read
more
Preceding the start of the convention on November 1, Thursday, at
Hillsborough County Extension in Seffner. Dr. Ellis and the
UF Master Beekeeper Program will be conducting lectures and
testing will be available in all three levels of the programs (...more
info).
From there they will head over to the Reception Cookout at the
Mainsail Convention Center.
Special group rate of $89 + tax for our one bedroom suites
featuring a full kitchen, living room, separate dining room, and
patio/balcony.
.
Special rate includes a full American breakfast buffet for up to 2
guests per suite.
Call (813)243-2600 to make your reservations today. Be sure to
mention the Florida State Beekeepers Association to get the
discounted rate. Cutoff date for this special group rate was October
18, 2012; however, Mainsail has agreed to extend the group rate of
$89.00 beyond October 18th "based on availability".
Mainsail Suites Hotel & Conference Center Tampa
http://www.mainsailtampa.com/
5108 Eisenhower Boulevard • Tampa, Florida 33634
Phone: (813) 243-2600 • Fax: (813) 243-2601
Toll Free: 1 (866) SAIL 2 US
Nominations for next year's officers are ongoing. Please
contact a nominating committee member to offer names:
Lancaster Correction Institution is
starting a Inmate Beekeeping program there in Trenton Fl. The
Fl Dept of Agriculture is donating ten colonies of bees to the
program, Jamie Ellis suggested that Mr. Harrison contact our
bee clubs to see if any of them would be interested in
donating any of the additional equipment that they need. D and
J apiary is going to donate a smoker and hive tools, Malcolm
Sanford is donating the books that they will use. They still
may be in need of a smokers, veils, etc. for the inmates to
use. If your club could provide any of this it would be
greatly appreciated...
read more
K. Harrison, STG/ Tool Control Officer,
Lancaster C.I.
Phone: 352-463-4100 ext 4277
National Honey Bee Day Events in Florida
Will be celebrated across our country on
August 18, 2012. The primary goals of the National Honey
Bee Day Program include the promotion and advancement of
beekeeping, education of the public about honey bees and
beekeeping, and public awareness of environmental concerns as they
effect honey bees.
Ocala: The North Central
Florida Beekeeping Association NCFBA Gainesville:
Gainesville Area Beekeepers GAB Orlando: Orange Blossom Beekeepers AssociationOBBA
Hastings, FL: Beekeepers of Putnam CountyBPC
For complete "official" list of NHBD participants...
read more
North Central Florida
Beekeeping Association
National Honey Bee Day
Ocala, Florida
August 18, 2012
Location: The SE Livestock Pavilion located 2232 NE
Jacksonville Rd. Ocala, FL 34470
The event will feature displays, demonstrations,
auction, food, drinks, door prizes, Florida Apiary Inspectors
participation in live open-hive demonstrations, a visit from Earlea Bee, an auction with Florida Ag “Hall of Famer”, Laurence
Cutts from Chipley, Florida as the auctioneer, Alyssa Fine (the
2012 American Honey Queen), some great scientists and longtime
beekeepers speaking about beekeeping and honeybees... read more for all
the details.
Local Association Featured News Spotlight
National
Honey Bee Day (NHBD) Event Announced
GAB is partnering
with Alachua County Master Gardeners and the Alachua County
Extension Office to host their local event celebrating NHBD
(National Honey Bee Day).
August 18, 2012
10:00 am - 4:00
pm
Location: UF IFAS
Alachua County Extension Office
2800 NE 39th Avenue
Gainesville, FL 32609-2658.
Per Kim Harris of the
GAB, the event will feature activities for children and adults
of all beekeeping experience levels. They will have a series
of well-known speakers, local vendors selling bee-related
wares, educational exhibits, and even an arthropod petting
zoo!
Questions should be
directed to Cindy Belknap at (352) 256-7962.
Chef, David Arnold, provided
the "Cooking with Honey" demonstration at the Florida State
Fair this year (February 2012). David has the Honey Day
Recipes he used during this demonstration available on his
website. He has other healthy recipes listed using honey as an
ingredient.
Our president, Gary Ranker asked Mr. Arnold to give the demo
again next year, along with some of his culinary students.
David has accepted the invitation and put this event on his
calendar. FSBA pays for the raw food and ingredients and for
Mr. Arnold volunteers for the event.
FSBA
BUSINESS MEETING, BBQ, & HONEY CONTEST
PHOTO GALLERY
The Beekeepers Association of
Southwest Florida and the Florida State Beekeepers
Association hosted a "Summer Swarm", Business Meeting,
Welsh Honey Show. Not only
was honey judged, but also beeswax, photos, and mead
were judged.
Dates:June 8th and
9th, 2012
Place: Calusa Nature Center and Planetarium
3450 Ortiz Avenue, Fort Myers, FL 33905
(239) 275-3435
Friday: Classes and The Day in the Bee yard will
began at 9:00 AM, ended around 5:00 PM. A
BBQ followed at 6:00 PM. Lunch was NOT provided on
Friday, but food was available for purchase.
Saturday: Classes and The Day in the Bee yard
began at 9:00 AM, ending around 5:00 PM. Lunch was also provided.
Cost per person was - $35.00 if pre-registered;
$45.00 At the Door.
The 2012 National
Winter Loss and Management Surveys were active
until April 20, 2012 (deadline has past) for participation at the
Bee Informed Partnership
(BIP) website. The Bee Informed Partnership is an
extension project that endeavors to decrease the number of
managed honey bee colonies that die over the winter.
Palm
Beach Beekeepers Conference was on Saturday April 14, 2012
8:00 AM to 5:00 PM Pine Jog Environmental Education Center 6301 Summit Blvd., West Palm Beach, FL 33415
Each year, the UF
HBREL organizes the Florida 4-H Honey Bee Essay Contest. The
deadline for the 2012 contest was February 20th, 2012.
The contest is a national competition...
read more
FSBA Members
CLICK
HERE for the discount form which must be used to
receive discount!
FSBA Members
CLICK HERE for the discount form which must be used
to receive discount!
The FSBA had a
booth at the Florida State Fair, Tampa, FL
February 9 -20, 2012.
Bert Kelley was the
coordinator. Bert carries his master sign-up sheet with him at
all times during the day, so volunteers were able to give him a call to be added
to the list.
Website Statistics
available for those interested in the Geek side of websites...
or curious as to the effectiveness of our new website based on
hits and visits per hour, daily, monthly.
Even shows search words used to find our website, favorite pages,
and much more. This is just a portion of what is
available to our webmaster for his analysis. Much of the
information has been omitted from website viewing, because it
is sensitive in that it also provides visitor information,
their browsers, search
engines used to find our site, etc.
If you like charts, tables, and graphs:
The Honey Bee Research
and Extension Laboratory at the University of Florida is
pleased to announce the 1st
Annual 'Caribbean Bee College'
CLICK on the image above to
VIEW/DOWNLOAD color brochure and schedule
Thursday, Friday, and
Saturday
January 3, 4, 5, 2013
St. George's University
Grenada, West Indies
Please join us for the 1st Annual
Caribbean Bee College (3-5 January 2013). The original UF Bee
College is a successful and popular honey bee extension event
in Florida, USA.
Our efforts through this event have
helped increase the number of registered beekeepers in
Florida, provided training and instruction for new beekeepers,
and helped seasoned beekeepers refine their beekeeping skills
and make their beekeeping operations more sustainable.
Our combined extension programs
have impacted over 7 million people in the United States and
in the Caribbean....More
Info
Jeanette Klopchin
Laboratory Manager/Extension Technician
Honey Bee Research and Extension Laboratory
Department of Entomology and Nematology
University of Florida | Bldg 970 Natural Area Drive
PO Box 110620 Gainesville, FL 32611-0620
Phone (352) 273-3932
The following is are a few selected
excerpts from the published article which quotes Gary Ranker,
David Westervelt, and others you may know:
Honeybees and their
keepers are both facing threats. The bees help make
Florida one of the top-five honey producers in the
country...commercial beekeeping is not as prevalent as it used
to be. There's still commercial beekeeping, but (some are
afraid) of the threat of bees disappearing." ...Backyard
beekeeping, on the other hand, is on the rise. Florida has
approximately 1,500 small-scale beekeepers, managing five or
fewer honey bee colonies, and 500 full-time side-liner
commercial beekeepers, according to the association....
read
more
The 2010 Supplemental Revenue Assistance Payments
Program (SURE) signup is currently underway and the signup deadline is
June 1, 2012. Those with a 10% loss of production due to a natural
disaster may be eligible for benefits.
State
Preemption/Apiculture -
SB 1132 (Hays) & HB 1197 (Horner)
PASSED!! on March
6, 2012
Florida Statute 586.10
This agricultural bill
(now officially is a
statute, 586.10) which had faced early opposition has now received final
passage (by both the house and senate) on Tuesday, March 6,
2012 and will be going to the Governor
for his signature.
This bill gives the
Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS)
exclusive authority to regulate beekeeping, apiaries and their
locations.
SB 1132PASSED!! grants the Florida Department of Agriculture
and Consumer Services exclusive authority to regulate and
permit beekeeping.
Now received final passage (by both the house and senate) on
Tuesday, March 6, 2012 and will be going to the Governor for
his signature.
5th Annual University of Florida
Bee College Program
was held on
Friday and Saturday March 9th & 10th, 2012
The Whitney Laboratory
for Marine Bioscience
9505 Ocean Shore Blvd.
St. Augustine, FL 32080-8610
Local Association Display Table
at the Bee College
The Honey
Bee Research and Extension Laboratory (HBREL) hosted a local club display table at the Bee College in the
back of the banquet hall so that each club could advertise
(their meetings, events, etc.), showcase pictures, and
distribute brochures, etc. This year there was an improved
version of the wonderful map of Florida showing where each bee
club is located, it was patterned after the Florida Map on the
Local Association page of the FSBA webpage.
Local clubs were urged to participate in this display
and take advantage of the opportunity to showcase your club.
Contact person was Elaine Suber [misselaineous@comcast.net] 614 Truett
Drive, Tallahassee, FL 32303, phone: 850-443-1055, who
coordinated your local association's display. It was requested
that your club representative, even if they were not attending the
Bee College, to send Elaine some materials to display ahead of
time. There was no need for any local members to tend to the
table, Elaine and Jeannette Klopchin handled the set-up. The
display was designed to be self-serve.
Jayla Gillaspie, our
associations honey queen for 2011 (crowned at last year's 90th FSBA convention)
has received this year's award FSBA Woman Beekeeper of the
Year.
She is also our
current reigning 2012 Honey Queen
For a list of others who held the position
as Honey Queen, Woman Beekeeper of the Year, and other awards, visit our HISTORY page. ...more about Jayla
Beekeeping in the Panhandle
Leon County Extension ~ Tallahassee
Was every Monday, 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Started November 21, 2011 and ended on January 30, 2012
Classes were offered by UF via interactive video to
local county
extension offices.
Farm Bureau’s
annual legislative days in Tallahassee
Briefing Dinner:
Was on
Monday, January 30, 2012 at the Antique Car Museum (6800 Mahan
Drive 32308) began at 6:30 p.m. RSVPs were required.
Admission was $15 and was payable at the door.
Legislative Reception:
Was on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012 at the Tallahassee Leon County Civic
Center started at 5:30 and ended at 8:00 p.m. Admission was $20.
...read more
2011: I am a bee virus researcher
in Montana, I have spoke at the national conventions and I am
the one who brought the Army in to play on CCD. I also provide
viral load screening to many commercial beekeepers around the
country. With that said, I have attached a
proposal and project for your membership, if it
meets your approval could you forward this to them. Let me
know, and thanks for your consideration. If you have any
questions please call or email me at 406-369-4214 mrwick@bvs-inc.us
Thanks to the
Orange Blossom
Beekeepers Association doing an outstanding job of hosting
our 91st Annual Convention this year on
October 27-29, 2011. The event was held at the Orange County
Extension Offices located at 6021 S. Conway Road, Orlando,
Florida and thanks for making it a great, fun, successful
event for beekeepers across our state... so much talent in one
place and all eagerly sharing priceless information from years
of experience. It was great to see all the hard work and
planning by OBBA pay off with a great time of fellowship,
food, education, shopping with vendors, door prizes, handouts,
banquet, honey judging, awards, "Queen of the Sun" movie, and
celebration of bees and beekeepers... mixed of course with
necessary annual business. We commend and congratulate
them for a job well done.
At the North American Beekeeping Conference & Tradeshow
on Saturday, January 14, 2102, there was a workshop made up of five
panelists who shared their experiences and expertise on how they were able
to preserve bees in urban/residential areas. The moderator of
this panel was master beekeeper, Nancy Gentry of Interlachen, FL ...read
more and view or download related resources (power point
presentations, pdf documents, etc... including a
sample code letter, honeybee
quiz, and more related link postings.
Beekeeper,
Laurence P. Cutts was inducted into the Florida Agriculture Hall
of Fame
Annual Banquet and Ceremony
was on
February 14, 2012
there was a
Reception: 5:30 p.m.
and a
Dinner and program: 7:00 p.m.
price was
$60.00 per person, RSVP was by February 10, 2012
The banquet took place in the Special Event Center at the Fairgrounds.
Martin Luther King Boulevard Fair Entrance
Laurence was honored at Florida
Agricultural Hall of Fame banquet during the Florida
State Fair in Tampa.
Laurence is a
third-generation beekeeper who was instrumental in advocating for research
to reduce bee hive losses in Florida. He also invented a trap for small
hive beetles. Cutts served as chief of
the Apiary Inspection Bureau at the Florida Department of Agriculture and
Consumer Services.
...
read more Also,
read even more about Laurence on our
History Page.
Those interested in attending and sitting at a FL Beekeeper's table,
sent their check in the amount of $60.00 (per person) to Gary Ranker.
... and included their name as they wished it to be printed on the name
tag.
Click Here for Gary's contact information. SEE VIDEOS of Laurence Cutts
(bee bearding, etc.).
Seating assignment will appear on your name badge at
the event
December 10, 2011
was the Beekeeping Trade Show
This Trade Show was FREE for
Beekeeping in the Panhandle registrants.
Speakers Bureau was Announced (2011)
Greetings fellow
beekeeper,
I am helping organize a listing of speakers about beekeeping
interests for the Florida State Beekeepers Association (FSBA)
and would like to know more about your interests in sharing
beekeeping information with other Florida beekeepers.
Thanks to the
Orange Blossom
Beekeepers Association doing an outstanding job of hosting
our 91st Annual Convention this year on
October 27-29, 2011. The event was held at the Orange County
Extension Offices located at 6021 S. Conway Road, Orlando,
Florida and thanks for making it a great, fun, successful
event for beekeepers across our state... so much talent in one
place and all eagerly sharing priceless information from years
of experience. It was great to see all the hard work and
planning by OBBA pay off with a great time of fellowship,
food, education, shopping with vendors, door prizes, handouts,
banquet, honey judging, awards, "Queen of the Sun" movie, and
celebration of bees and beekeepers... mixed of course with
necessary annual business. We commend and congratulate
them for a job well done.
The Holiday Inn International Airport in Orlando was the
location of our Annual Banquet. They offered room rates
of $81.00 per room (up to 4 people) especially for our event.
This Holiday Inn is about 3 miles from the Orange County
Extension Center (6021 S. Conway Road, Orlando). They have a
restaurant in the hotel but there are also numerous
restaurants in this area, such a Dennys, Sonny's, Chilis, Tony
Romas, Fridays, etc.
The address of the Holiday Inn is 5750 T.G. Lee Blvd.,
Orlando, FL.
The Holiday Inn also had a FREE shuttle that took those who
stayed with them to The Florida Mall for a little shopping.
Unfortunately, they did not go to the theme parks but drove you anywhere within 3 miles of the hotel for free.
The
Holiday Inn's phone number was: 1-800-972-2590 or 407-851-6400
2011 Convention Forms ~ The
convention was held in October 2011, so these forms are old,
but left here in Archives for future reference:
Some convention attendees saved on Shipping
shipping from certain vendors who attended this year's (2011) Convention: Some vendors
accepted orders in advance of the convention and brought/delivered
their order(s) to the
Convention. Vendors who were willing to accept orders prior
to the Convention and deliver the order to convention in order to
SAVE ON SHIPPING let
Dennis know and were added to the list. Only one vendor
contacted Dennis to participate.
Greetings fellow
beekeeper,
