The Beekeepers of Indiana

"The Official Organization for All Indiana Beekeepers"

A 501(c)(3) organization

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July 29 - Aug 21, 2022

COVID-19 Safety (Per Indiana State Fair)

This year’s State Fair will take place Friday, July ^29th – Sunday, August 21^st. The same as in 2021, this year the State Fair will add a weekend to the front end of the Fair schedule and will be closed on Mondays and Tuesdays weekly.

The Fair is planning to bring back fairgoer favorites including carnival rides, fun, wacky fair food, 4-H competitions, free entertainment, and much more. Stay tuned for new spectacular experiences to the 2022 State Fair.

Selling Honey:

Our GOAL is to have as many different TBoI Beekeeper’s Honey available as possible. So please start planning to participate! If you are a TBoI member and wish to sell your honey and hive products at the TBoI booth, click here to see the rules.

Local Club Volunteers:

If your club would like to volunteer to man the booth, contact Robert Duffy, State Fair Chairman.

Buy Local Honey

Would you like to know where you can buy honey in your local area? Click on 'Local Honey' or check out the 'Local Honey' page under 'Services'.

Speakers for Local Associations

Interested in speaking at other local associations? Have a specific area of beekeeping expertise and willing to share that knowledge with other beekeepers?

Many of our local clubs would like to hear what other clubs are doing, tips and tricks for keeping our honey bees alive and surviving through winter.

Perhaps you are passionate about Top Bar Hives, Warre Hives or just Live Hives and you'd like to share that passion with other beekeepers.

Send an email to chuckdailey@att.net, subject "Speaker List"

See our Education page for more information or to request someone to speak at your group.

Dues

You can renew your membership or join The Beekeepers of Indiana (TBoI) using PayPal as well as continue to mail them in. If you'd like to mail them, please note the address for sending in your dues.

The Beekeepers of Indiana
7784 N. Sanctuary Lane
Mooresville, IN 46158
Attn: Debbie Seib, Treasurer

The address label on your newsletter includes your dues expiration date.

For more information see the Membership tab on our website.

Meetings/Calendar

Want to know what is going on in the state? Click on the Meetings/Calendar link.

Our Newsletter

As a member of The Beekeepers of Indiana, you'll receive a quarterly newsletter. If you have changed your address and not notified us, your newsletter will end up in a dead letter file at the US postal service.

If you have moved, or will be at a different location and your mail is not forwarded, please contact us so you don't miss out on any important beekeeping events happening in Indiana. Contact Debbie Seib, the Treasurer for address changes.

2022 Fall Conference & Workshops

Our 2022 Fall Conference and Workshops will be held on October 28/29th in Terre Haute, Indiana at the new Terre Haute Convention Center located at 800 Wabash Ave
Terre Haute, IN 47807.

We have once again lined up some fabulous speakers. Jamie Ellis and Sam Comfort have both confirmed their commitment to be our Plenary Speakers. Last year we had some hands on workshops and will be including those again.

For more information, see the Events Page.

Cost will be the same as last year: $40 for member adults, 50 for non-member adults, $25 for children 15 and under. To download the mail in form, click here.

To sign up online, click here.

Guest Speakers

Jamie Ellis

Dr. Ellis is the Gahan Endowed Professor of Entomology in the Department of Entomology and Nematology at the University of Florida. At the University of Florida, Dr. Ellis has responsibilities in extension, instruction and research related to honey bees. Regarding his extension work, Dr. Ellis created the UF, South Florida, and Caribbean Bee Colleges, and the UF Master Beekeeper Program. As an instructor, Dr. Ellis supervises Ph.D. and masters students in addition to offering an online course in apiculture. Dr. Ellis and his team conduct research projects in the fields of honey bee husbandry, conservation and ecology, and integrated crop pollination.

Sam Comfort

After winning 6 hives in a poker game, Sam Comfort worked for several years in commercial beekeeping across America. He started Anarchy Apiaries in 2005 to explore permaculture ideas of low input natural cycles. He breeds queens from hardy survivors, experiments with splitting techniques, and messes around with hive designs. So the mission is to 1) make more beehives than there are televisions, and 2) have a good time, all the time (with bees).

Anarchy Apiaries runs around 1,000 hives that split seasonally into around 2,000 mating nucs with no treatments, minimal feeding, and do-it-yourself “comfort hive” boxes in New York and Florida and spots in between. Through teaching independent, biological beekeeping, he hopes to make it more affordable, approachable, and enjoyable; thus bring the means of production back to the beekeeper.

Smoker Lighting Contest is back as well as the Honey Show.

For more information, click here.

SWARMS or CUTOUTS

Swarms are more prevalent in the Spring; however, anytime a hive is overcrowded they may swarm. What's the difference between a swarm and a cut out or trap out? See a short explanation below. If you need to find someone interested in removing swarms check out the Swarm Call List link below. If you have bees in a structure, check out the Cut Out List link below.

Swarms - a cluster of bees that have landed on a temporary location, usually a tree limb or fence.

Cut outs - hive of bees are in a structure; home, garage, etc.

Trap Outs- a hive is located inside a structure that prohibits the removal of any of the structure to get to the bees. This is the most time consuming and requires several trips to the location.

Here is a Swarm Call List of The Beekeepers of Indiana by county along with name and contact numbers.

Here is a Cut Out List of beekeepers in the The Beekeepers
of Indiana that will do cut outs. The list is by county along with name and contact numbers.

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Answers about The Beekeepers of Indiana:
E-mail Debbie Seib, 317-432-9578

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