Archive for the ‘ Douglas County Bees ’ Category

Beekeeping Nomenclature

17th October 2022 | 0 Comments

Glossary of Beekeeping Terms from Betterbee.com Abdomen – the third region of the body of a bee enclosing the honey stomach, true stomach, intestine, sting, and reproductive organs. Absconding swarm – an entire colony of bees that abandons the hive because of disease, wax moth, excessive heat or water, lack of resources, or other reasons. Acarine disease – […]


Constitution and Bylaws of the Douglas County Bees

2nd April 2020 | 0 Comments

Please click on this link to access the PDF file that can be downloaded or printed directly from here. DCB constitution and bylaws


Welcome to Douglas County Bees

2nd April 2020 | 0 Comments

Welcome to Douglas County Bees Douglas County Bees is a registered LLC with a 501(C)3 charitable organization status committed to bettering beekeeping in Douglas County Oregon.  This will be attained by educating, mentoring, and growing beekeeping throughout the county. We meet the first Wednesday @6:00pm of every month at Abby’s Annex (1661 NE Stephens) in […]


Scheduled Events for Douglas County Bee Club

6th April 2020 | 0 Comments

2022 Event Schedule March 4-6, 2022   Umpqua Valley Home Builders Association’s Home and Garden Show at the Douglas County Fairgrounds April 23-24, 2022  Glide Wildflower Show in Glide May 7, 2022 Douglas County Master Gardeners Annual Plant and Garden Expo at the Douglas County Fairgrounds June 4, 2022 The Oregon Honey Festival in Medford Oregon […]


Sugar Syrup Recipe

4th April 2020 | 0 Comments

Making sugar syrup for your bees becomes necessary for several reasons. The seasonal dearth has arrived and the bees have very little foraging material.  A newly acquired wild captured swarm has been installed into a hive and the colony has nothing in there to help them get started.  Or you are transferring a nuc into […]


DCB Cut-Out Records

24th April 2020 | 0 Comments

March 31, 2021 Myrtle Creek, OR  (private property) Robert, Bruce, Beau and Megan worked Bees were taken out of the side of the house, at window sill level. Medium sized colony was taken with brood for 3 bars, honey for 3 bars.  2 pots of honey went to the property owner. Remainder of honey went […]


Monthy Bee Club Meetings

24th April 2020 | 0 Comments

Douglas County Bees General Meeting Minutes December 7, 2022   Robert Baune – president and Beau Miakinkoff – secretary/treasurer were unable to attend this scheduled meeting.  Charley Moyer – vice president and the new Executive Board Elect were facilitating the meeting. I have yet to receive the minutes of this meeting to be recorded here with the […]


Forms for Beekeeping Records

6th April 2020 | 0 Comments

“We have created a Hive Inspection Form for those that may be interested. You can print one for each of your hives, create a binder and complete them after each inspection. You could laminate and tape it to the inside of your hive lid and make notes with a dry erase marker to reference on […]


Social Media Beekeeping Groups

6th April 2020 | 0 Comments

Get Connected to FaceBook Beekeeping Groups Please feel free to copy the group name and paste into your own FB search bar to get to the FB site.  You most likely will have to “join” the group before you can participate in the discussions, seek other people’s advise, or offer solutions to the other group […]


Swarm Alert , Contact Us

5th April 2020 | 0 Comments

Douglas County Bees Responding to swarm alerts is time sensitive.  Please try to reach us via telephone, email, or on Facebook.  We will get in touch with you as soon as possible. This removal service is FREE douglascountybees@gmail.com douglascountybees.org FASTEST  →   541-863-9523 facebook.com/DCBeekeepers/