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HAPPY SPRING EQUINOX!

Bee Package Pickup is TOMORROW 3/21/23 at 1:00 pm (**give or take) at the KDH Stackem High! 1225 S Croatan Hwy, Kill Devil Hills, NC 27948

Don Babin is picking up and dropping them off, as we only have a small number of people who ordered for tomorrow from Sapony.

**Don will notify me of a more accurate timeframe when hes picked them up and is heading back, which I will text with everyone if it changes from 1pm.

Thank You to Nick Kiousis & Don Babin!!

Ive held off scheduling a meeting for Wednesday this week as people may need help with Package installation & current Hive consolidation… We will absolutely be making them up!

And if you’ve been delayed… 

Start Feeding your 1:1 Sugar Syrup on your hives!!

Picking Up List:

Harvey Murray – 3 Marked Packages from Sapony 3/21

Chris Fischer – 1 Marked Package from Sapony 3/21

Charlotte Hester – 2 Marked Packahges from Sapony 3/21

**Please notify me immediately if I dont have you on the list!

NUC Pickup List:

Leslie – 2 Nucs from Nadeau Farms 

FOR SALE: 

Swarm Traps & DIY Equipment – Contact Robert Lotze in Duck 804-475-9365. Some traps in Stock, any other equipment about 2ish weeks out. 

Thomas Dotson 252-217-8628 is selling an overwintered Hive with a local queen in a 2 x 8 frame Medium Box Hive. 

State Meetings:

Summer 2023, Blue Ridge Community College, Flat Rock, NC • July 13-15

Spring 2024, New Bern Waterfront Convention Center, New Bern, NC • March 7-9

The Born and Bred queen rearing workshop is back in 2023! The workshop is a program offered by the NCSBA to instruct beekeepers on the complete process of queen rearing. Join us for a full day of queen rearing instruction, demonstration and hands-on practice. The specialized cell building and mating colonies required for queen rearing will be set-up on site. Grafting instruction will be hands-on with live honey bee larvae. The workshop will be held on Saturday, April 22 at the Pitt County Extension Center in Greenville, NC. Register soon because space for this popular workshop is limited!

Born and Bred Queen Rearing

Professorship FUNDRAISING:

NCSU Endowed Professorship

Let me know if theres any questions or if  you have Ordered anything from Sapony for the other dates… we currently have Heidi picking them up on April 15th & no one for the April 19th 2nd Package pick up.

LET ME KNOW if anyone has ordered packages from that date and is willing to pick up others. 

Happy Spring,

Dalton Hyde

919-260-3265

Reminder!

This coming Wednesday, March 16, we’ll hold an Outer Banks BeeKeepers’ Guild meeting at the Outer Banks Brewing Station, 600 S Croatan Hwy Kill Devil Hills, NC 27948, beginning at 5:30 p.m.

Hope to see you there!

PACKAGE BEES FROM SAPONY CREEK, 3/22 PICKUP:

Have you ordered a package(s) or queen(s) [or plan to] from Sapony Creek/Dave Bradley in Rocky Mount, NC, for March 22 pickup?

OBX Beekeeper Dorothy Morris will be picking up her packages that day and has offered to pick up for others!

If you would like her to pick up your order, here are your instructions:

  1. Call Sapony Creek (252)-904-1446, and let them know you will be on the 3/22 OBX order to be picked up by Dorothy Morris.
  2. Call Dorothy Morris at (252)-599-2507 to give her your name & number and let her know what you have ordered so that she can add you to her list.

On pickup day, when she is driving on her way back from Rocky Mount, she will let Denise know her ETA, and Denise will broadcast text the ETA to everyone on the pickup list.  

Dorothy will bring the orders to her home located at 608 W. Kitty Hawk Road Kitty Hawk, NC 27949 for everyone to pick up there. When you come to pick them up, any donations toward her gas expenses are welcome!

The Sapony Creek package pickup is currently scheduled for March 22, 2022.  As usual, the pickup date will be dependent on Sapony Creek.  In years past there have been weather delays that extended the pickup date, so plan accordingly!

REVIEW/ PRACTICE Package or Nuc installation NOW before your expected orders arrive…. figuring it out the day of costs you time & sometimes bees!


Thanks,
Dalton Hyde
OBBG President 
919-260-3265