Sunday, June 12th @ 1:00 PM

Faella Farm

Chris & Martha Faella

1072 Saugatucket Rd.

Peace Dale, RI 02879

401-783-7437

The June meeting will be hosted by Chris and Martha Faella at their home in Peace Dale. After the meeting Chris and Martha will host a Lobster Bake at 3PM! So that we have time for the meeting, the bake and festivities, we will start early at 1PM.

There will be a business meeting followed by a hive inspection by Ed Lafferty. The hive inspection will include a demo of varroa mite sampling using the alcohol wash and powdered sugar methods. (As always, please bring your veil if you want to participate in the inspection.)

The Registration form and Directions to Faella Farm are linked below. The full Lobster Bake is $20/person; the bake without a lobster is $10/person; extra lobsters are $10 each. A charcoal grill will be provided if you want to bring hamburger, hot dogs or something to grill.

All RIBA members and their families are welcome to attend, whether you eat or not.

We need to give Chris & Martha a head count a week before the bake, and the bake is limited to the first 100 to register, so please mail your registration as soon as possible. We need to receive registrations by Wednesday, June 1st.

Please print, cut, fill out and mail the form along with payment to Tony DiGiulio.

Meeting Announcement & Lobster Bake Registration

Meeting & Lobster Bake Directions

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It's (still) time to renew your membership!

We need to receive dues by June 1st. If you haven't paid by then, you will receive one final notice and have until the end of the month to renew your membership. So, please, send in your renewal promptly!

Follow the link below to the Google Docs spreadsheet to check on your dues status. If your due date is April, 2012, your dues are paid up. If your due date is before April, 2012, membership dues are due. (Life members are noted.)

RIBA Dues Status

To renew your membership, please send a check for $15 made out to RIBA to our Treasurer Tony DiGiulio at the following address:

RIBA Treasurer

℅ Anthony DiGiulio

P.O. Box 114014

North Providence, RI

02911-0214

Sunday, May 15th @ 2:00 PM 

Rocky Hill Grange

1340 South County Trail (Rte 2)

East Greenwich, RI

Our own Everett Zurlinden will be presenting "Hive Management: How to get your hives to survive the winter", tips and techniques for building strong, productive hives through the season with an eye to surviving next winter.

Directions:

Take I-95 North or South to Exit 8

Make a right onto Rt-2 (Quaker Lane)

Go through the traffic lights at Division St., keeping the Walgreens to your left

The Grange is located just past the Walgreens on Rt-2

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It's time to renew your membership!

Follow the link below to the Google Docs spreadsheet to check on your dues status. If your due date is April, 2012, your dues are paid up. If your due date is before April, 2012, membership dues are due.

To renew your membership, please send a check for $15 made out to RIBA to our Treasurer Tony DiGiulio at the address below. (NB: The $15 RIBA member dues apply to a family or an individual. You can renew your membership either way. The choice is yours.)

RIBA Treasurer

℅ Anthony DiGiulio

P.O. Box 114014

North Providence, RI

02911-0214

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Our speaker Elizabeth Capaldi-Evans gave a very interesting and engaging lecture about her research into honeybee biology and behavior, and the impact that the new diseases brought by varroa might have on behavior and longevity.

Sunday, April 10 @ 4 PM

The Pines Restaurant

1204 Pound Hill Road

North Smithfield, RI

Guest Speaker: Elizabeth Capaldi Evans, Ph. D, author of “Why Do Bees Buzz”

President and Officer’s Reports

Election of Officers

Dinner (“Chicken Family Style”)

Raffle – Hive with Bees, and a Scholarship to EAS

Silent Auction

Our guest speaker this year will be Dr. Elizabeth Capaldi Evans from Bucknell University, on topics from her recent book "Why Do Bees Buzz? Fascinating Answers to Questions About Bees". A native of Warwick, RI, Dr. Evans studies invertebrate behavior, focusing on bees and how they learn.

Nominations are being accepted for officers of RIBA for the offices of President, Vice-President, Treasurer, Secretary, and Member- at-Large for RIBA in 2011-12. If you are interested in running, please contact Bob Anson (401-683-4711; anson26c@cox.net) or Roger Robitaille (401-378-3578) to submit your name.

We must give The Pines a head count a week in advance in of the dinner, so members need to make reservations in advance. Please download, print, fill out and mail the registration form to our Treasurer Tony DiGiulio at the address listed in the form. Please indicate the number of people attending, so our head-count is accurate.

Annual Dinner Registration

Sunday, March 13th @ 2:00 PM

Rocky Hill Grange

1340 South County Trail (Rte 2)

East Greenwich, RI

Speaker: Thomas D. Seeley, Ph.D.

Subject: Swarming and How to Bait Swarm Traps

This month's speaker will be Dr. Tom Seeley from Cornell University. Entertaining and always enlightening, Dr. Seeley will be speaking about swarming (which is the subject of his latest book,  “Honeybee Democracy”) and about how to bait traps to recapture your own swarms.

Dr. Seeley, a professor in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior at Cornell, is a regular and highly sought-after speaker on the subject of honeybee behavior. He's authored “The Wisdom of the Hive”, about how honeybee colonies make decisions, and most recently “Honeybee Democracy”, which describes how swarms choose a new location. Dr. Seeley and his research into swarming behavior was the subject of a long and engaging feature story last September in the New York Times.

Thomas D. Seeley

http://www.nbb.cornell.edu/seeley.shtml

NYT: Reports From the Hive, Where the Swarm Concurs

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/28/science/28scibks.html

Congratulations, Mark!

Providence Journal, 2/21/11

Sunday, Feb 13 at 2:00 PM

Rocky Hill Grange

1340 South County Trail (Rte 2)

East Greenwich, RI

The speaker at the February meeting will be Jim Parr, a long-time and highly-respected Rhode Island beekeeper, whose topic will be "Feeding Honey Bees." His main focus will be on winter feeding, and among the things he will address will be the advantages and disadvantages of different types of feeders; the problems of using liquid feeders in winter; the benefits of candy feeding; the relative merits of using protein in candy versus pollen patties for early brood rearing; how to make and use pollen patties; and problems with early colony buildup.

Jim Parr began keeping bees when he was twelve years old (as a teenager he had sixteen hives) and in the 1980s kept up to 250 hives in 25 different bee yards in Newport County, Washington County and in Bristol County, Massachusetts.  For five years he provided up to 170 colonies a year to a 90-acre cranberry bog in Coventry.  He also traveled to New Zealand in 1984 and worked for two commercial beekeepers, one of them a 3,000-colony operation in the central highlands of South Island, where he was in charge of the extracting operation.  For many years he produced approximately 100 nucs annually.  He he also has taught hands-on beekeeping courses in conjunction with the Rhode Island Audubon Society.

Directions:

Take I-95 North or South to Exit 8

Make a right onto Rt-2 (Quaker Lane)

Go through the traffic lights at Division St., keeping the Walgreens to your left

The Grange is located just past the Walgreens on Rt-2

Please, download the article and enjoy. Sorry for the confusion.

Arnold Mills Community House

75 Hillside Road

Cumberland, RI

Speaker: Betty Menucci, “the Eastern Apicultural Society (EAS)” based on her experiences and education attending meetings  (see interview with Betty in this issue), including a video she made on the 2002 conference at Cornell University

Directions: