May Meeting!!

Alamo Area Beekeepers Association

Next meeting:  Tuesday, May 20, 2014 at 6:30 p.m.

At Helotes Independent Baptist Church

15335 Orange Tower Road

Helotes, TX 78023

MEETING AGENDA

Ø  President’s Welcome & Visitors Intro by Rick Fink (5 min)

Ø  Approval of the March 2013 meeting minutes (5 min)

Ø  Treasurer & Membership Report, Richard Trevino (5 min)

Ø AABA Field Day – Event Review – Rick Fink, Don Fraser, Richard Trevino Jr (5 min)

Ø  2014 Youth Scholarship Program – Rick Fink (5 min)

Ø Program intermission & potluck dinner, AABA will supply meat course, please bring side or dessert to share.

Ø Presentation – Video/Audio Lectures - Dr Matt Tarver, PhD (Research Entomologist), Dr Bob Danka PhD (Research Entomologist), Honey Bee Breeding, Genetics & Physiology Research Unit, USDA Lab, Baton Rouge, LA. Topics:

·      USDA Honey Bee Research Program – Lab Mission & Goals (Dr Tarver)

·      Current & Future Small Hive Beetle Control (Dr Tarver)

·      The Development of Mite Resistant Bee Stocks (Dr Danka)

Ø Q&A – Beekeeping Questions – e.g. Feeding Bees-Summer Drought

Ø Reminders - AABA Newsletter – blog – Mind Your OWN Bee’s Wax

Note. BeeWeaver (Austin, TX) donated 5 (five) queen certificates to the AABA for the Alamo Area Beekeepers Field Day. The winners – Jim Pistone, Donavan Friedrichs, Marilyn Lambert, Lolita Bader AND one more person.  If you won a BeeWeaver Queen please notify Don Fraser attexmanbees@gmail.com

Note. We would appreciate it if a few people (20) could bring folding chairs to the May 2014 AABA meeting. 

Meeting Agenda – submitted by Don Fraser, VP AABA

Blog: Mind Your OWN Beeswax  
Link: http://aabanewsletter@blogspot.com. Reminder – Mimi Stricker would love to receive your pictures and stories for inclusion in the AABA Blog: Mind Your Own Beeswax.  If you have an idea for a story or some interesting pictures you would like to share please contact her at: Mimi Stricker merissa.stricker@gmail.com