ISBA 2024 Fall Meeting & Photos
The 2024 Fall Meeting had events spread across 2 days. Friday was an all day Honey Judge Class conducted by the American Honey Show Training Council (AHSTC) and Saturday consisted of the ISBA Fall Meeting featuring two fantastic speakers.
The 2024 Fall Meeting had events spread across 2 days. Friday was an all day Honey Judge Class conducted by the American Honey Show Training Council (AHSTC) and Saturday consisted of the ISBA Fall Meeting featuring two fantastic speakers.
- Dr. Jamie Ellis
- Bob Binnie
Topics covered by Jamie Ellis and Bob Binnie included
Do you want to
Do you want to
- Learn more about Small Hive Beetles?
- Be able to recognize and understand queen events and possible actions a beekeeper can take?
- Identify stressors of a honey bee colony and what to do in order to address them?
- Learn more about sustainable beekeeping?
- Learn about toxic chemical reactions in a honey bee colony and why and when to rotate out old comb in order to have a healthier colony and what synergistic chemical reactions occur in old comb?
- Learn more about the special qualities in honey?
- Learn about the chemistry in processing honey, what you can do to protect and enhance the quality of the honey and what to avoid to keep from ruining the honey?
After a long day of presentations, both Jamie Ellis and Bob Binnie graciously agreed to a Q&A session with all of the attendees of the Fall Meeting - Our many thanks to Jamie and Bob!!!!!
The below is a slide show of all the pics which were taken over the two days.
The ISBA 2023 Fall Meeting is a wrap. It was a full day packed with quality speakers and presentations.
The featured speakers were
A short slideshow is below.
The featured speakers were
- Dr. Samuel Ramsey - Current research to fight the Varroa Mite & Understanding the Mysterious Tropilaelaps Mite
- Melvin Disselkoen - On The Spot (OTS) Queen Rearing method, miticide free beekeeping & how to handle laying workers
- Dr. Alex Payne - Bees, Disease, and Beek Strategies
- Illinois Dept. of Agriculture - Annual Apiary Report - Eleanor Schumacher
A short slideshow is below.
A few photos of a candy board being changed on a colony in Central Illinois on December 19, 2013. The temp is around 47 degrees, with sun and no wind. Candy boards are not the easiest of things to change. Most are now using no cook sugar bricks/cakes or winter patties or mountain camp method inside of a spacer box on top of the upper brood box,
