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OSU Honey Bee Lab

Wooster, Ohio

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We’re on Facebook

If you have a Facebook profile, please “Become a fan” of the OSU Honey Bee Lab’s Facebook page. We’ll be using it to announce honey sales and other events.
Update: The OSU Honey Bee Lab Facebook page can now be accessed at: http://www.facebook.com/beelab

Spring Workshop Participant Registration

The participant registration packet for the OSUE–TCBA Spring Beekeeping Workshop is available here:
http://beelab.osu.edu/PDF/10_PRegistration_Packet.pdf

Honey Sale 2009: Order Form and Schedule

The order form and Columbus schedule for this year’s honey sale can be downloaded as a PDF here: http://beelab.osu.edu/PDF/2009ColumbusHoneySale.pdf

Out of the office

The Bee Lab will be close from today (7/24) through next Wednesday (7/29). During this time we will be unable to process orders from the store.

Pending corrections to some nectar & pollen source information

Many years ago, I developed nectar & pollen plant lists.  These lists are commonly found in both hard-copy and electronic format.  Though I have the following plants listed as bee plants, they are now considered to be invasive and should not be encouraged or propagated:  Chinese Tallow Tree (Sapium sebiferum), Lespedeza (Lespedeza spp.), and Privet (Ligustrum spp.).

Africanized honey bee preparations

Africanzied honey bees are still a potential issue.  The Alabama Department of Agriculture is holding a planning meeting tomorrow (May 27, 2009) to continue to make plans for the eventual arrival of these bees in Alabama.  I will give a summary report here after I return to Ohio.