Executive
- President: Bill Fosdick
- First vice president: Lisa Redding
- Second vice president: Tim Humphreys
- Secretary: Irene Tiampo
- Treasurer: Joanne Davidson
- Member secretary: Alanya Smith
- Immediate past president: Catherine Cully
Directors and committee chairs
- Beeline editor: Peter Day
- Website: Peter Willis
- Greeter: Joan Yarmie
- Name tags: Catherine Cully
- Library: Bob Lucy
- Hospitality: Lorna Connor
- New beekeepers’ corner: Carolyn Hissen, Tara Beninger
- Education: Nairn Hollott
- Swarm line: Jody Aylard
- Top bar and Warre hives: Tara Beninger
- Outyard team: Derek Wulff
- Bee supplies: Jennifer Olson
- Iotron: Alanna Morbin
2015 Calendar
- January
Raising bees in Rwanda
AFB winter check
Bee study update - February
Annual General Meeting
Assessing equipment hygiene
Seedy Saturday - March
Raising bees in Rwanda
Flow-hive – Real or not? - April
Avoiding a swarm
Thymol update
Herbicides in Saanich - May
Meet the new inspector - June
Using formic acid
Building a bee vacuum
Manuka honey - July
Extracting and jarring
Preparing for fairs
Honey judging criteria - August
Defending against wasps
New Zealand manuka honey - September
Kwantlen University launch of Commercial Beekeeping Course [1]
Assessing AFB
Saanich Fair, Sooke Fair, Luxton Fair - October
Fall fair winners
Lactobacillus is a good thing - November
Potluck Dinner and Auction - December
Rest – no meeting
Education
- March
Integrated pest management by Provincial Apiculturist Paul van Westendorp - September
Small hive beetle by Regional Apiculturist Wendi Gilson - Monthly New beekeepers corner by Carolyn Hissen & Tara Beninger
- Schools, scouts, day camps and monthly: What’s in bloom by Nairn Hollott
Bee supplies
- 2015 sales
- Honey Extractor
- Hive Fogger
- Pollen Patties
- Wasp Traps
- Oxalic Acid
- Coordinator: Jennifer Olson
- Extractor: Jim Henry
Refreshments
- Coffee, tea, 46 bags of cookies, cakes, fruit and the chance to taste honey and try to identify its “terroire”
- Coordinators: Lorna Connors and Peter Day and Dave and Judy Wallace
Swarm line
- Volunteers: 19
- Calls received: 70
- Swarms collected: 39
- Bumble bee nests: 22
- Our service to the public and to the bees is to intervene when a swarm is discovered or a nest is found in an inconvenient location. The bees are captured and provided a safe and secure accommodation.
- Swarm line chair: Jody Aylard
Iotron trip
- Boxes: 161
- Cost per box: $9.69
- The Iotron sterilizes boxes and equipment ensuring disease is not transferred with the sale of a hive. It is good to rotate your equipment through the Iotron every two years.
- Coordinator: Alanna Morbin, Jim Henry and Don Hutton
Library
- Bee Scene, printed quarterly
- Bee Culture, printed monthly
- New additions:
- The bee keepers handbook
- Beekeeping in Western Canada
- Coordinator: Bob Lucy and Alanna Morbin
Community
- Camosun College project: $250 to Anthia Connor and her 2nd year biology team
- Young parents support network: $107 and 16 jars of honey to young, and usually single, mums here in Victoria
- Innovative communities and Barry Denluck’s bee project in Rwanda: $107
Outyard
- China beach: 56 hives on three sites from early July until mid-September when the fireweed ended
- Thank you to the Metchosin/Langford crew who cleared the space and set up the electrified and barbed wire fence to protect our bees.
- Outyard coordinator: Derek Wulff
Download the 2015 CRBA Annual report [2].