Conference Poetry July 19, 2008 9:16 am 
Beekeeping, Special Words

… In the form of a list of HAS events:

Welcome and announcements
CCD update
The cell punch method of queen rearing
Insurance for beekeepers
Nosema Cerane and Nosema Apis
A model bee breeding plan for sideline beekeepers
Living with the African honeybee
American Foulbrood: identification, eradication and control
Scrapbooking for beekeepers
Laying workers in the hive
Basic hive inspection
Factors affecting drone production
Raising your own queens
Reading the frames for better hive management
Using Apiguard for mite control
Cooking with honey
Making beekeeping equipment
The art of making beeswax candles
Bee beard – how to do one and why
How to move bees safely
Bee friendly insect control in the home landscape
What Brushy Moutain has to offer in equipment and supplies
Building a honey house from the floor up
Starting a master beekeeping program in your state
The Lost Mountain Honey Project
Beekeeping in South Africa
IPM for varroa mite control
Swarm control and splits
Using bricks to mark your hive’s condition
More on CCD problems
The classroom questions and answers
Beekeeping 101
Allegany protocol for saving the bees
Adding wax to plastic brood foundation – bees will pull it out fast and perfect
How to use everyday or inexpensive items in beekeeping
Hive scale to check honey build-up and the change in the calendar date
Greeting and gift cards and tags
Over-wintering nucs
What’s in your comb?
Dinner meeting HAS executive board
We Are Marshall movie
Where are the African bees now?
Sister Bee movie
Overview of instrumental insemination
Scrapbooking for beekeepers
Finding the queen
Learn the ins and outs of making Sister Bee movie
Making beekeepingi equipment
Autoclave: the best treatment for AFB equipment
Getting bees ready for pollination
Using small hive beetle traps
Selection & breeding of hardy queen stock
Teaching bees to school students
Queen banking
What’s new with the Walter Kelley Company
Keeping the Buckfast queens on the market
Weighing the hive day to day
Building a good bee club
Homemade honey ice cream social with bluegrass band
Queen quality
Pollen Nation movie
How to market your honey and wax
Quick snacks made with honey
Laying workers in the hive
Why nucs?
Information and help for the beginning beekeeper
Making splits to increase your numbers
Back care for beekeepers
Grand prize drawing

A few of these would make great novel titles. Can you guess which ones I mean?


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