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MINUTES
Tampa Bay Beekeepers Association
February 14, 2008
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The Tampa Bay Beekeepers Association monthly meeting came to order on Thursday, February 14, 2008, 7:30 pm at the Hillsborough County Extension Office old meeting hall. President Charlie Hammond presided. Approximate number of attendees: 45. We were graced with the presents of Rachel Bryson, the 2008 American Haney Princess. She is 22 years old, and lives on a farm in Pennsylvania. Thank you Rachel for coming to our meeting and attending the Florida State Fair. Jon Simkin, Renee Hartmann and Jane Hall provided the refreshments. Door prizes provided by Bert Kelly. Thank you to all.
Guest Speaker: Jon Simkin with IQ Insect / All Florida Bee Removal presented information about bee removal to our group. Jon Simkin is a U of Fl entomologist with 13 years experience in the business of stinking insect removal. He takes care of hornets, yellow jackets, bald-faced hornet wasps as well as honey bees. He is interested in saving any and all bees that may be saved by contacting any person in our group to come to sights and collect the bees for hiving. These bees may be in meter boxes, or in trees on external hives. Please contact Jon Simkin at (813) 930-2847.
Q&A
Has he used bee vacuum? Not cost effective for IQ Insect.
What do we do with bumblebees? Iq Insect get rid of them.
If we see bees that you think are AHB do you send them to Jerry Hayes?
By now people know ABH. And Jon does not send them. But not 100 percent of the samples he has sent in the past have come back AHB.
Jon is really interested in giving the business of saving bee to TBBA.
Jon is saying removal of bees should have compensation.
Q Is there ABH in Dade City?
A. None reported in this room tonight.
Q Are any bees protected by the government?
A. No
Q. To what extent is Jon seeing ABH in his business?
A. Twice a week.
Thank you to Jon for his time and providing refreshments this week. Please call him if you are interested.
Break 8:35 PM
Club Business Meeting 9:00 PM
Treasurers report: $5497.43 balance in the club account.
Club Apiary Report:
David Smith reports hives were moved to Citrus near Hwy 60 and State Rd 39
Work party tasks will include re-super at the citrus farm.
And at the bee yard there is a little clean up.
Once again Jim Johnson has volunteered to bring supplies from bee yard to grove.
Thank you Jim.
Noel reports 42 hives.
David has offered to store brood and super at his house. Thank you, David.
Announcements:
Bee College is March 14and 15, 2008 in Apopka, Florida.
New Business:
Tampa bay Beekeepers Association annual Bee Seminar is May 3rd.
It will be held at the Upper Tampa Bay Park. The park has been reserved for that date.
Rebecca Conroy has been gracious enough to chair this event. This means she will be delegating and needing help to plan this event.
The food chairperson is Sandy Kitts.
Rebecca will need help with registration and contacting people for stations. If any one helped out last year and could save Rebecca some time by clueing her in on things, that would be grateful.
Meeting adjourned at 9:30.
NEXT MEETING:
Thursday, March 13, 2008 7:30 p.m. at Hillsborough Extension office meeting hall. Nell Aman has volunteered to provide refreshments for the next meeting.
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