Reminder: SDC Beekeepers July Meeting Tonight 7/24
Hello SDC members, We will be having our fifth SDC Beekeepers meeting of the 2025 season tonight Thursday, July 24, starting at 6:30 PM. Our meetings are held at St John’s Methodist Church located at 1200 Old Pecos Trail…..in the Choir Room. At this month’s meeting, in additions to sharing beekeeping challenges and answering members questions, we plan to discuss and present images of brood patterns…..both good brood patterns and problematic brood patterns; sharing what we can learn about the health of our hive and the queen. We hope that members will email pics of any brood patterns they are seeing that are of concern to steve1957@icloud.com <mailto:steve1957@icloud.com> so that we can share and discuss them as a group. In addition, once again we will be offering an early session from 6:00-6:30, dedicated to new beekeepers who can benefit from more basic information about hive inspections and such. Everyone can choose to come at either 6:00 or at 6:30. There will be free smoker fuel available to all attendees. We will attempt to add folks who cannot join in person via Zoom, however the best way to participate is to join us in person. Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88272010466?pwd=0jomibbg6j0rkkStDMIXEuag3ho4Mb.1 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88272010466?pwd=0jomibbg6j0rkkStDMIXEuag3ho4Mb.1 Join our Cloud HD Video Meeting us02web.zoom.us Meeting ID: 882 7201 0466 Passcode: SDC Hope to see you all there! Kate and Steve
Greetings SDCBeeks: I know this was brought up earlier in the summer, and I'm curious what people's experiences are now as we close the summer: we have been having very low (neglible) mite counts this year. Are others having "regular" mite years so far, or lower than average? (and of course the #s will go up as fall kicks in...) Thanks for responding with your observations this summer! Christa Coggins Santa Fe, NM 505-603-0530
Negligible for our two hives On Tue, Aug 12, 2025 at 15:28 Christa Coggins <christa.coggins@outlook.com> wrote:
Greetings SDCBeeks:
I know this was brought up earlier in the summer, and I'm curious what people's experiences are now as we close the summer: we have been having very low (neglible) mite counts this year.
Are others having "regular" mite years so far, or lower than average? (and of course the #s will go up as fall kicks in...)
Thanks for responding with your observations this summer!
Christa Coggins
Santa Fe, NM 505-603-0530
_______________________________________________ hive mailing list hive@lists.sdcbeeks.org http://lists.sdcbeeks.org/listinfo.cgi/hive-sdcbeeks.org
No mites so far. Planning to check again soon.Elisa On Tuesday, August 12, 2025 at 01:28:38 PM MDT, Christa Coggins <christa.coggins@outlook.com> wrote: Greetings SDCBeeks: I know this was brought up earlier in the summer, and I'm curious what people's experiences are now as we close the summer: we have been having very low (neglible) mite counts this year. Are others having "regular" mite years so far, or lower than average? (and of course the #s will go up as fall kicks in...) Thanks for responding with your observations this summer! Christa Coggins Santa Fe, NM 505-603-0530 _______________________________________________ hive mailing list hive@lists.sdcbeeks.org http://lists.sdcbeeks.org/listinfo.cgi/hive-sdcbeeks.org
Does that mean that you won’t do a treatment against mites this year? (Myself, I have never done that; the bees here have died of other reasons so far. With a split now from someone else, I just don’t know if mites had already been introduced into the hive before they arrived here.) Thanks for any responses!
On Aug 12, 2025, at 8:18 PM, eard17@aol.com wrote:
No mites so far. Planning to check again soon. Elisa
On Tuesday, August 12, 2025 at 01:28:38 PM MDT, Christa Coggins <christa.coggins@outlook.com> wrote:
Greetings SDCBeeks:
I know this was brought up earlier in the summer, and I'm curious what people's experiences are now as we close the summer: we have been having very low (neglible) mite counts this year.
Are others having "regular" mite years so far, or lower than average? (and of course the #s will go up as fall kicks in...)
Thanks for responding with your observations this summer!
Christa Coggins
Santa Fe, NM 505-603-0530
_______________________________________________ hive mailing list hive@lists.sdcbeeks.org <mailto:hive@lists.sdcbeeks.org> http://lists.sdcbeeks.org/listinfo.cgi/hive-sdcbeeks.org <http://lists.sdcbeeks.org/listinfo.cgi/hive-sdcbeeks.org> _______________________________________________ hive mailing list hive@lists.sdcbeeks.org http://lists.sdcbeeks.org/listinfo.cgi/hive-sdcbeeks.org
We went into 1 of our two hives today and had no mites in our sample (sugar roll test). Keep in mind that this is a hive that swarmed earlier in the year. Hope to go into the other hive later this week. Sent from my iPhone
On Aug 12, 2025, at 1:28 PM, Christa Coggins <christa.coggins@outlook.com> wrote:
Greetings SDCBeeks:
I know this was brought up earlier in the summer, and I'm curious what people's experiences are now as we close the summer: we have been having very low (neglible) mite counts this year.
Are others having "regular" mite years so far, or lower than average? (and of course the #s will go up as fall kicks in...)
Thanks for responding with your observations this summer!
Christa Coggins
Santa Fe, NM 505-603-0530
_______________________________________________ hive mailing list hive@lists.sdcbeeks.org http://lists.sdcbeeks.org/listinfo.cgi/hive-sdcbeeks.org
participants (7)
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Christa Coggins -
Dean Fry -
eard17＠aol.com -
Elisa Ard
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grietje laga -
Kate Whealen -
Myke Smith