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PEMI BAKER BEEKEEPERS’ ASSN Virtual MEETING Agenda on January 12, 2021

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Welcome and call meeting to order                

This is the month that club dues are collected – After our guest speaker – we will go over the different ways you can pay your membership dues for 2021

• Guest Speaker – Mike Bertolone – American National / Farm Family Insurance
• Business Meeting
  • Minutes from last meeting
  • Treasurer’s Report
• Old Business
  • Club 2021 Dues – PayPal
• New Business
• IPM Management – Bee Talk
  • Check your bees
    • Location
    • Remove dead bees
    • Do they need feed?
  • Winter storage of drawn out frames
    • Check for wax moths – eggs an come in the fall with your frames
  • Test dead bees for mites and nosema
• Order new bee packages now
  • McCormack Farms (Jeff McCormack)
  • B-Line Apiaries (Alden Marshall)
  • Hillside Apiaries (Allen Lindahl)
  • Mann Lake email
• Importance of nutrition
  • Prepare to take notes – compare to what you did last year
  • Nutrition MUST be a seasonal-long concern
  • Why are bees attracted to manure?
• Things to do during winter months
  • Cleaning equipment, tools, smoker and suits
  • Reading books, magazines about beekeeping (old school books, new research, different styles of keeping bees and queen raising
  • How was Bee School beneficial during your first year of beekeeping?
• Mites – Mites – Mites
  • Check for mites early in bee season
  • Mite count seems to be low to begin – but as the bees build up – they build up!

• Close of Meeting