Reposting President Tom Hall’s announcement from the COBA FB group.

MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT!

This Thursday, May 25 at 7:00-9:00 PM we will have our monthly COBA meeting. The meeting will be held at Will Rogers Gardens 3400 NW 36th. The meeting is free and open to all.

This month we will be talking about some of the timely things you may need to be doing in your hives. I will be presenting about beginner mistakes and Rick Schantz will discuss supering your hives for the upcoming nectar flow.

We will take some time to answer any beekeeping questions you may have, troubleshoot a problem or help anyone that hasn’t started beekeeping yet but wants some direction on how to get into the hobby.

PLEASE NOTE, I want give a big thanks to Beekeeping Etc for their long-time support of COBA and point out that if you struggle to make it by their store to get your beekeeping supplies you can order and prepay over the phone and Jay Silver will bring your order to the COBA meeting for you to pick up.

If it looks like the possibility of severe storms please monitor COBA Facebook in case we need to cancel the meeting we will make an announcement asap.

COBA will provide drinks, plates and utensils and attendees may bring snacks to share at break.

Drawing: We will have a table for you to place bee related items on for a ticket drawing.

Items for the drawing table could be magazines, plants, decorations, bee equipment or any other items you may want to part with.

We hope to see you there.

COBA President Tom Hall

Reposting President Tom Hall’s announcement from the COBA FB group.

MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT!

This Thursday, April 27 at 7:00-9:00 PM we will have our monthly COBA meeting. The meeting will be held at Will Rogers Gardens 3400 NW 36th. The meeting is free and open to all.

This month we will be talking about some of the timely things you may need to be doing in your hives. We will be presenting about making splits, swarm traps and getting ready for supering your hives for the upcoming nectar flow.

We will take some time to answer any beekeeping questions you may have, troubleshoot a problem or help anyone that hasn’t started beekeeping yet but wants some direction on how to get into the hobby.

PLEASE NOTE, I want give a big thanks to Beekeeping Etc for their long-time support of COBA and point out that if you struggle to make it by their store to get your beekeeping supplies you can order and prepay over the phone and Jay Silver will bring your order to the COBA meeting for you to pick up.

If it looks like the possibility of severe storms please monitor COBA Facebook in case we need to cancel the meeting we will make an announcement asap.

COBA will provide drinks, plates and utensils and attendees may bring snacks to share at break.

Drawing: We will have a table for you to place bee related items on for a ticket drawing.

Items for the drawing table could be magazines, plants, decorations, bee equipment or any other items you may want to part with.

We hope to see you there.

COBA President Tom Hall

Repost from President Tom Hall’s COBA FB group announcement:

MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT!

Next Thursday March 23 at 7:00-9:00 PM we will have our monthly COBA meeting. The meeting will be held at Will Rogers Gardens 3400 NW 36th. The meeting is free and open to all.

This month we will be talking about some of the timely things you may need to be doing to optimize the performance of your hives, such as, balancing brood, cycling out those old frames that came with your nuc and requeening. We’ll also touch on reversing boxes, feeding and looking out for signs of swarming.

We will take some time to answer any beekeeping questions you may have, troubleshoot a problem or help anyone that hasn’t started beekeeping yet but wants some direction on how to get into the hobby.

PLEASE NOTE, I want give a big thanks to Beekeeping Etc for their long-time support of COBA and point out that if you struggle to make it by their store to get your beekeeping supplies you can order and prepay over the phone and Jay Silver will bring your order to the COBA meeting for you to pick up.

COBA will provide drinks, plates and utensils and attendees may bring snacks to share at break.

Drawing: We will have a table for you to place bee related items on for a ticket drawing.

Items for the drawing table could be magazines, plants, decorations, bee equipment or any other items you may want to part with.

We hope to see you there.

COBA President Tom Hall

Repost from President Tom Hall’s FB announcement

MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT!

Thursday, January 26 at 7:00-9:00 PM we will have our monthly COBA meeting. The meeting will be held at Will Rogers Gardens 3400 NW 36th. The meeting is free and open to all to attend.

For the first part of the meeting we will have a business meeting and election of officers. Steve Davis is the nominating committee and has separate Facebook post regarding this for those that want to run for a COBA officer position. Should you be interested in running for a position, contact Steve Davis. All current officers have agreed to retain their position.

After the business meeting, Rick and I will be talking about some things you may need to be doing in the next month and some survival tactics should we have another February like we did two years ago.

We hope to see you there!

COBA President

COVID Precautions: Will Rogers does not have any COVID restrictions at this time. We should have plenty of seating and if you want a table to yourself for social distancing feel free to do so and mask wearing is optional and they are not provided.

Break snacks: COBA will be providing drinks and you are welcome to bring and snacks to share.

Drawing: We will have the table for you to place bee related items on for the ticket drawing. You can bring items to place on the table such as, bee equipment you no longer need or have extras of, bee magazines or books, plants or garden items, etc.

Forwarded (in part) from Rick Schantz FB post

Will Rogers Senior Center, 3501 Pat Murphy Dr, Oklahoma City, OK 73112

7:00pm to 9:00 pm.

We are meeting at the senior center in the park off of Pat Murphy Dr.

This months meeting will cover varroa mite tolerances in your hives. How to check for them. And some old, and new mite treatments that you might not be aware of. Also when should you through in the towel on growing a late season swarm, and what can be done with it. 

Due to a schedule mixup we will be meeting at the Will Rogers senior center off of Pat Murphy Drive by the tennis courts and gymnasium in the park.

Click the link for a map. https://goo.gl/maps/Qy5yHx8rvg2gfvqv8

Forwarded from President Tom Hall’s FB post:

MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT!

This Thursday, Aug 25 at 7:00-9:00 PM we will have our monthly COBA meeting. The meeting will be held at Will Rogers Gardens 3400 NW 36th. The meeting is free and open to all to attend in person. We do not plan to broadcast the meeting.

At this meeting we will not have our monthly beekeeping TOPIC but will have an evening for everyone to mingle, chat and talk bees with one another.

We will take some time to answer any beekeeping questions you may have, troubleshoot a problem or help anyone that hasn’t started beekeeping yet but wants some direction on how to get into the hobby.
If you have made honey this year bring it with you and we will have our annual honey tasting and vote on the best honey. For the honey sampling it is best if you put your honey in a squeeze type bottle for less mess and ease of sampling. If you know the source of the nectar your honey was made from or the general area it came from put a label on it so we can relate to the source or location. You can bring small bottles of honey to swap with one another if you desire.

COBA will provide drinks, plates and utensils and attendees may bring snacks to share at break.

Drawing: We will have a table for you to place bee related items on for a ticket drawing. Items for the drawing table could be magazines, plants, decorations, bee equipment or any other items you may want to part with.

We hope to see you there.

COBA President Tom Hall

MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT!

Reposted from President Tom Hall’s FB announcement:

This Thursday, July 28 at 7:00-9:00 PM we will have our monthly COBA meeting. The meeting will be held at Will Rogers Gardens 3400 NW 36th. The meeting is free and open to all to attend but we do not plan to broadcast the meeting.

At this meeting Jay Silver and I will be presenting on mite testing, the different ways to treat for mites, hive ventilation and robbing.

We plan to have to time to answer any beekeeping questions or challenges you might have.

We hope to see you there.

COBA President

COBA will provide drinks and attendees may bring snacks to share at break.

Drawing: We will have the table for you to place bee related gifts on for the ticket drawing.

Repost from President Tom Hall’s FB announcment:

MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT!

This Thursday, June 23 at 7:00-9:00 PM we will have our monthly COBA meeting. The meeting will be held at Will Rogers Gardens 3400 NW 36th. The meeting is free and open to all to attend but we do not plan to broadcast the meeting.

At this meeting Rick Schantz and I will be presenting on heat exhaustion, ways to beat the heat, harvesting, extracting and processing wax.

We will make time to answer your questions that you might have about your hives.

We hope to see you there.

COBA President

COBA will provide drinks and attendees may bring snacks to share at break.

Drawing: We will have the table for you to place bee related gifts on for the ticket drawing.

Repost from Tom Hall’s FB post:

MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT!

This Thursday, May 26 at 7:00-9:00 PM we will have our monthly COBA meeting. The meeting will be held at Will Rogers Gardens 3400 NW 36th. The meeting is free and open to all to attend but we do not plan to broadcast the meeting.

At this meeting Rick Schantz will be presenting on supering your hives for the nectar flow and what mite treatments you can use with or without honey supers on.

If you recently got your hive and just starting out and have questions we will try to answer them and provide help.

We hope to see you there.

COBA will provide drinks and attendees may bring snacks to share at break.

Drawing: We will have the table for you to place bee related gifts on for the ticket drawing.

Forwarded from Tom Hall’s FB Post:

MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT!
This Thursday, March 24 at 7:00-9:00 PM we will have our monthly COBA meeting. The meeting will be held at Will Rogers Gardens 3400 NW 36th. The meeting is free and open to all to attend.

We have a lot to cover this meeting. We will be having the business meeting that was originally planned for the January meeting but postponed due to COVID concerns and weather conditions did not permit meeting in February either. The business meeting will include election of officers and we appreciate your support and vote. Steve Davis is the nominating committee and will be posting about the nomination of officers.

In addition to the business meeting, Justin Scott will be presenting on harvesting pollen and products his family makes from beeswax. I plan to cover a few things you may need to be doing with your bees at this time of year and answer any beekeeping questions you may have.

We hope to see you there!

COBA PresidentCOVID Precautions: Will Rogers does not have any COVID restrictions at this time. We should have plenty of seating and if you want a table to yourself for social distancing feel free to do so and mask wearing is optional and they are not provided.

Break snacks: COBA will be providing drinks and you are welcome to bring and snacks to share.

Drawing: We will have the table for you to place bee related gifts on for the ticket drawing.