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President's Corner June is off to a roller coaster of weather, sometimes hot but then those cool to cold nights. The bees are really pulling in the nector. We should have a good honey crop this year. Swarming is an issue right now. Room in the brood chamber if limited will send the queen packing and set back your honey collection. Keeping an eye on space available in the brood boxes is a must now. Dann Purvis will teach us how to raise our own queens on a small scale for our June meeting. Sunday will be in the bee yard for hands-on and Monday will be in the meeting room as usual. Bring your veil on Sunday and the club will provide a light lunch. Check the calendar page of the website for more information. July is just around the corner and time to be thinking of your fair entries. Cut comb boxes should be on and lots of honey supers. If you are going to enter different color honey, be sure to pull and extract at the right time! Let's fill the cabinet to the brim this year. See you at the meeting. Peggy Garnes, President Committee Announcements Looking for a Bee Yard Steward MCBA Contacts President:   Peggy Garnes   6045 Lance Rd Medina, OH 44256 330-723-6265   pgarnes001@neo.rr.com Vice President:   Kim Flottum   7011 Spieth Rd Medina OH, 44256 330-722-2021   kim@beeculture.com Secretary:   Molly White   1737 Halls Carriage Path Westlake, OH 44145 440-899-8624   mollymariewhite@gmail.com Treasurer:   Paul Kosmos   6386 State Road Sharon Township OH, 44281 330-239-1379   pkosmos@frontier.com Announcements First-time users Welcome to the Medina County Beekeepers Association's website. We hope you enjoy your time here and can find what you want about bees and beekeeping. If you just want to read the site, please surf around and see what you can find. If you want to help build the site or add comments... read more Swarm list It's swarm season again. If you want to add your name to the club's swarm list and maybe get some free bees, log in and add your name to the list. (If you do not yet have an account to edit this site, please email our webmaster.) Mentor list MCBA has a strong mentoring tradition. In the past, we let everyone know who was willing to serve as a mentor only via our club roster. In order to help new beekeepers find us, we are experimenting with an online mentor list. If you are interested in serving as a member, just add yourself to the list. (If you do not yet have an account to edit this site, please email our webmaster.)

Picture of the month Building a Cell Starter/Finisher with Dan Purvis (Click to enlarge) Topics of Interest MCBA - the Club - Club contacts, officers, become a member, talk about meetings, upcoming events and other things specific to the club Calendar (or click the link in the navigation box at left) Newsletters Beeyard reports Swarm list (which you can now update yourself) Mentor list (also now in self-service) Bee diseases & parasites - for discussion of varroa, tracheal mites, Foulbrood and all the other things that can kill your bees. Classifieds - Buy, sell, trade or talk about beekeeping equipment - what works, what doesn't and why. Getting started with bees - questions for and by new beekeepers. Where should I put my hives? What do I really need? How hard is it? Urban beekeeping - articles and experiences with beekeeping near people Blessings of the Bees - some prayers, poems and other evidence of the spiritual connection between bees and mankind. Bee Still Encounters - Bee Encounters of the Closest Kind by Medina Beekeepers Resources and links - hundreds more links of questionable value Photo albums - Look here for photos of Medina Beekeepers Bait Hives Why not try to attract a swarm in your good, clean, unused equipment? Growing Degree Days Want to know what's in bloom or about to? Looking to make varietal honey? One way to tell is by Growing Degree Days. What's New on the website 18 June 2013 (diff | hist) . . User:Paul Kosmos/Beeyard‎; 21:53 . . (-10) . . Paul Kosmos (Talk | contribs)‎ (→2013 June 18: ) (Upload log); 21:52 . . Paul Kosmos (Talk | contribs)‎ uploaded "File:Drone-Comb---VM.gif" (diff | hist) . . User:Paul Kosmos/Beeyard‎; 21:52 . . (-24) . . Paul Kosmos (Talk | contribs)‎ (→2013 June 18: ) (diff | hist) . . User:Paul Kosmos/Beeyard‎; 21:51 . . (+23) . . Paul Kosmos (Talk | contribs)‎ (→2013 June 18: ) (Upload log); 21:50 . . Paul Kosmos (Talk | contribs)‎ uploaded "File:Drone-Comb-VM-2.gif" more ...