The following content is via Program Director/OBBG Officer, Julie Moye, regarding registering your Hives for Free on BeeCheck (https://nc.beecheck.org/) so we can determine the best locations for our own Queen Yard!
Hi All,
I’m starting to plan for a Beekeepers’ Roster with pictures and with hive locations so we can see who is near to who else. Guess what? I don’t have to reinvent the wheel, although I do so enjoy reinventing the wheel, and have done it countless times.
I’m older now, so I’d like to request each of you to drop everything you’re doing and run to your computer/tablet/phone and log yourself into BeeCheck which will locate your entered hives in a registry for purposes of keeping your hives safe from agricultural over-spray, drift, etc.
If you’re driving a car, you can wait until you are able to safely pull off the road- say 10 minutes, would that be sufficient?
Well, as it turns out it will also locate you to us so that we can come to rob your hives at night…wait, I mean so that we can start thinking about the Born & Bred program and look at our bee yard overlaps (an actual queen would say “apiary” and since I’m a queen myself, I will use that royal term from now on).
Here’s a screenshot of those of us who have done so already and by tomorrow at noon, I expect to see the rest of you! Kidding of course, well maybe… It’s for your own good too.
Thanks for letting me entertain myself at your expense for a few minutes. After all, it’s all about my enjoyment, isn’t it?
I hope everyone reads emails regularly.
You’re the best!
PS: I’m a queen of a certain age so screenshots are not my thing, but just in case you’re of a certain age too, this does not have live links. You’ll have to look at that tiny print in the URL and actually type it in and register yourself, it’s free! A URL is an address of a website… a website is a place in a virtual land where you can look at pretty stuff and cats…if you need more info call me. I can’t do everything can I?
Peace Out!
-Julie Moye
OBBG Program Director
What is BeeCheck?
BeeCheck™ is operated by FieldWatch, Inc, a non-profit company created by Purdue in collaboration with interested agricultural stakeholder groups. For more information, visit https://fieldwatch.com/.
This mapping tool is meant to help pesticide applicators and beekeepers communicate more effectively to promote awareness and stewardship activities to help prevent and manage drift effects.
This site features a powerful map interface that clearly shows applicators the locations of registered sites so they can use the information in their ongoing stewardship activities before they spray.
Use this link to Sign Up/Create an Account & then add your Apiary/Hive Locations!
https://nc.beecheck.org/signup#beekeeper