Each November since 1908, the Maryland State Beekeepers Association has elected a leadership group dedicated to supporting our club’s mission of supporting beekeepers and beekeeping through education and outreach. Several hundred, all-volunteer officers have led and supported MSBA for 111 years! Please welcome (and thank!) your local and statewide officers: they want to be a point of contact and resource for you, and to hear what you have to say.
We have new features to share information with you, and for you to share MSBA info with your friends. MSBA’s website has added an interactive CALENDAR with several features, including letting you sync bee events to your personal calendar. We also have PRINT and SOCIAL SHARING buttons so you can Read More …
In December, Maryland beekeeper and MSBA officer Ben Cooper published All Nature Sings: A Devotional Guide to Animals in the Bible, including a lovely chapter on honey bees. Did you know that bees are found only 3 times in the Bible, but honey and honeycomb together get more than 60 mentions? Similar pointers about more than two dozen other animals are included, and there are three useful appendices as well. Ben says the book project took him 24 years, and Read More …
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At the February 2, 2019 MSBA Meeting, Maryland State Apiarist Cybil Preston will introduce us all to the Fieldwatch/BeeCheck application. Fieldwatch’s mission is “to develop and provide easy-to-use, reliable, accurate and secure on-line mapping tools intended to enhance communications that promote awareness and stewardship activities between producers of specialty crops, beekeepers and pesticide applicators.” BeeCheck is an application for beekeepers that is meant to support “Communication + Cooperation + Collaboration = Successful Co-existence.” In her presentation, Cybil will help us learn how to log in and register Read More …
MSBA t-shirts in a full range of sizes, and now with long sleeves, are available again! Read More …
MSBA now offers long- and short-sleeved “I’m a Maryland Beekeeper” t-shirts! Read More …
Over ONE THOUSAND beekeepers are MISSING!
Are you one? Please mail or email your signed registration to the MD Apiary Inspectors if you have not already done so! We have a special link in this story to help you register Read More …
EXPERT presenters will include:
Dr. Samuel Ramsey, cutting edge VARROA MITE researcher expert.
William Sprenkle, QUEEN REARING and evaluations. How to improve your own stock, Mark Dykes, Bee Squad coordinator for the vanEngelsdorp Bee Lab, and Cybil Preston, MD Apiary Inspector. Read More …