Resources & Links
For members only
Borrow one of the club’s honey extractors, uncapping knives, or Oxalic acid vaporizers (includes a battery, OA powder, and instructions for use.)
You must pick up and use the equipment within 4 days of being scheduled for it. If you ask to be on the list, you must pick up the tool, and have it in your possession, clean and ready to go to the next member in line.
Contact Sandy Friedley at sandy.friedley@gmail.com or 970-749-3183
As a member of 4CBA, you are automatically a member of The Colorado State Beekeepers Association, and thus receive all of the benefits there, such as reduced or free entry to their spring and winter meetings. https://coloradobeekeepers.org/
Members of 4CBA also qualify for a discount on the American Bee Journal. Contact Tina at founder@4cornersbeekeepers.com to find out how to get your coupon.
Members of 4CBA also have the opportunity to apply for a $200 grant to be used toward the building of a bear fence. The application can be found here.
| The Sandhill; Meghan Milbrath – Munith, Michigan | several articles including topics covered in our 2019 Spring Seminar |
| ScientificBeekeeping.com Beekeeping Through the Eyes of a Biologist | This website and books by Randy Oliver are often referenced by other experienced beekeepers. |
| Quick Bear Fencing Tips | Quick Tips for Effective Electric Fencing for Bears |
| Oxyalic Acid Vaporizer Demo | December 2019 Tina Sebestyn demonstrates how to do an Oxalic Acid Vaporizer treatment for Varroa Mite Treatment. |
| How to Build a Horizontal Hive! | Click this link to see plans on how to build a horizontal bee hive yourself! |
| Honeybeesuite.com | All kinds of splits In simplest terms, a split is made by dividing an existing colony into two or more parts. |
| Honey Bee Health Coalition | Tools for Varroa Management |
| CSBA | Colorado State Beekeepers Association Website |
| Build It Yourself Link | So you wanna’ build it yourself? Click this link to a master list of how to build several useful beekeeping supplies. |
| Bee Quest | Fatt Mountain Queens and Fat Mountain Nucs localized to the Durango-Pagosa Springs, CO area, and the high desert around Farmington, NM |
| BearSmart Durango | lectric fencing section of Bear Smart Durango Website. Includes links to information and resources to protect our hives from bears. |
| Bears and Electric Fencing | A starter’s guide for using electric fencing to deter bears |
| A Plan for Varroa | This info is great, there is a video, a PDF with the graph you will be looking for and a decision tree of what to use when. Sand Hill bees is on the resource page way at the bottom. Making a pLan for Varroa |
| A Better Way To Bee Science • Logic • Experience | This website is often referred to and referenced by experienced beekeepers |
| Roundup Information and Alternatives | Glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, is one of the most commonly used herbicides in the world by commercial gardeners. It is found to be highly toxic and can cause many short-term and long-term health effects. Not to mention it can be harmful to important pollinators such as honey bees.
To help educate those in the farming and gardening industries about this toxic chemical, we’ve created two comprehensive guides. One covers things like what it is used for, symptoms, and side effects. The second guide discusses non-toxic alternatives. Please take a look: http://www.drugwatch.com/roundup/glyphosate/ http://www.drugwatch.com/roundup/alternatives/ |
| Honey Bee Health Coalition | Honey Bee Nutrition Guide to read and/or download. |
| Honey Bee Disease Identification Chart | This chart aims to provide beekeepers with an easy-to-use reference out in the field when they come across suspected diseases in their hives. We will continue to improve this chart toward that goal. The quicker you, as a beekeeper, can spot and identify potential issues within your hive, the more successful you will be at keeping your honey bees alive and thriving. |
Swarm Hotline
970-769-2661
Call if you have a swarm and live in Four Corners area; Pagosa, Durango, Cortez, Aztec, Farmington, Dolores, Mancos.
