Useful Documents and Links

This is where you’ll find links to miscellaneous documents and other pieces of information we post from time to time.

• • LCBS Queen Breeding Group Queen Availability

• • Very nice chart details local flowers and their bloom times.

• • How to do a sugar roll mite check.

• • Hive Registration
    • Link to PaPlants where you can newly register or renew your apiary registration. If you never done this online, just click New License or Registration and the site will walk you through the process.

• • Swarm Collection Best Practices
    (requirements for being on the LCBS Swarm List

• • Presentation on Making Splits

• • Managing Small Hive Beetles (by eXtension)

• • Jeremy Barnes’ presentation from the May 2011 meeting
    • Jeremy is a past president of the York County Beekeepers Association

• • 2020 New Beekeeper Workshop Presentations
    This is for the personal use of our members, please do not redistribute/link/repost without permission.    
    •  2020 Workshop Slides (large PDF, ~30MB)

• • Forest Hill Woodworking
    • Forest Hill now has a website…Check it out!

• • Brooke’s Bīnder
    • A collection of docs from Brooke we hope will continue to grow.

• • Jim Pinkerton’s Tips on Feeding Bees

• • Bottling Honey At The Gathering Place

• • Designing A Bee Garden
    • Handout on designing and planting a bee garden developed by LCBS, YCBA, and our Master Gardener friend Lydia Martin

• • Package Installation: Watch a Pro

• • If you like to use iCal to sync events into a single calendar, here’s an iCal feed for all our events: http://www.lancasterbeekeepers.org/?eme_ical=public&scope=future