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Eastern Colorado Beekeepers

 

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- Due to social distancing and precautions during the COVID-19 pandemic, we have cancelled or modified some events, please check our calendar below or e-mail This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for more information -

- HAPPY NEW YEAR! -
Our next meeting will be January 19th at 6:30 pm. Look for meeting information as we approach that date.
We will kick off the year with a short business meeting followed by a presentation from Lisa Boesen, a Fort Collins beekeeper who wants to share her experience with Audubon of the Rockies’ Habitat Hero program and how her gardening for pollinators has improved!
Come join us and find out what we’re planning to be up to in 2021! 

- Member Services (new online payment options!) -

*-* Order your bees NOW! *-*

We are offering:

3 lb packages of bees for late April/early May delivery!

5-Frame Nuc Colonies for May delivery!

There may be other options queen purchases:
If you are interested in queen purchases, e-mail This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., tell us which you are interested in, and we'll keep you in the loop!

 

Meetings are held on the 3rd Tuesday of each month January through November at 6:30pm

 

Please check the calendar entries or contact us (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) for meeting location information, as it is in flux during the pandemic. We are currently *trying* (depending on COVID-19 risk and restrictions) to offer hybridized meetings allowing some in-person contact as well as an online connection for those that prefer not to meet in person, but will continue to at least offer online connections to meetings for the forseeable future.

Strasburg, CO  80136

 

Guests are welcome!

 

 

 

 

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Think you have a swarm?

Awesome! Now what?

 

  1. Don't spray them! Honey bee swarms are just a group of worker bees with the queen in the center looking for a new home - this is a natural part of their reproductive process and is one way we can get new bee colonies from established hives. Bee swarms may be alarming, but they are not a danger if left alone to be handled by experienced beekeepers.

  2. Call for help! If you live in Colorado, you can use the statewide swarm hotline or call your local country extension office or beekeepers' association.

    If you contact the right folks, someone will come collect the swarm and make sure they find a good home!
    We have local beekeepers from our club networked within the Colorado state swarm hotline (1-844-SPY-BEES or 1-844-779-2337) who you will be connected with when you call and enter your town/area information.

 

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Please see our Beekeeping Classes & Calendar pages or the list below for specific classes as they are scheduled.
Fill out the interest form linked here & we will contact you as educational opportunities that may interest you are planned!

We at Eastern Colorado Beekeepers try to offer a range of educational opportunities for our variety of club and community members.

Generally, we offer Beekeeping 101 each spring and, depending on opportunity and interest, will offer Beekeeping 201 & more specific classes such as hand-on hive splitting seminars.
Classes are typically held in the Byers/Strasburg/Bennett area and often include at least a portion of class in an apiary (weather permitting) with the bees.

If you are interested in any of these or other educational opportunities, please fill out the form below & we will keep you in the loop!

Typically, there is also an educational presentation at each regularly scheduled meeting (guests are welcome - see our calendar!).

 

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2021 Nuc Colony ($181) 


 We are excited for the opportunity to offer nuc colonies for members this year! Delivery will be near Strasburg, Colorado in May (pending appropriate social distancing plan for delivery day) - you will be notified if that changes.
This is a livestock transport and delivery - more accurate times will be determined and shared as delivery approaches with specific times available on the day of delivery.
We cannot be responsible for colonies not picked up on delivery day - if you cannot pick up your bees in a timely manner, please arrange for someone to do so for you. We do not have facilities to store your packages for any length of time.

BEFORE paying, you need to reserve your nuc colony by filling out the package order form linked here - quantities are limited and orders will be fulfilled on a first-come, first-serve basis, so get yours reserved AND paid for ASAP to ensure your new bees!

Nuc colonies are a plastic 5-frame box containing a small, established colony and a new, laying queen. Click here to view the flyer.

If paying by cash or check, nuc colonies are $15 - Paypal payments automatically include a surcharge to cover the additional cost of processing the online payment.
So long as the payment is recieved early enough to ensure your order, payments may be paid by cash or check at a meeting or by mailing a check to: Eastern Colorado Beekeepers PO Box 772 Strasburg, Colorado 80136.


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