# Colorado Beekeepers **URL:** \ **Category:** Connect with Locals\ **Created:** [May 4, 2015, 7:15pm UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/colorado-beekeepers/1200 "2015-05-04T19:15:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Kristinahoney](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a9a28c/32.png) [@Kristinahoney](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/Kristinahoney)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2016, 7:55pm UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/colorado-beekeepers/1200/126 "2016-11-22T19:55:27Z")
Hi Karey, Don’t worry about herbicide spraying. It’s insecticides and tank mixes with fungicides that are worrisome. Lots of people spray their conifers for various bugs. Bees don’t _normally_ visit conifers, but drift can be a problem. I tell my mentorees not to expect or take honey the first year, especially if starting with a package. Furthermore you can expect to feed heavily. Is the entrance hole to the outside? If so screen it so you don’t feed the whole neighborhood. ---
**Author:** ![Kristinahoney](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a9a28c/32.png) [@Kristinahoney](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/Kristinahoney)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2016, 7:58pm UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/colorado-beekeepers/1200/127 "2016-11-22T19:58:03Z")
I’m teaching a course in December, Beginning Beekeeping is NOT for Dummies. It will include the Flow Hive. [http://forum.honeyflow.com/t/beginning-beekeeping-is-not-for-dummies-winter-2016-class-colorado/9322?u=kristinahoney](http://forum.honeyflow.com/t/beginning-beekeeping-is-not-for-dummies-winter-2016-class-colorado/9322?u=kristinahoney) ---
**Author:** ![Karey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a5b964/32.png) [@Karey](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/Karey)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2016, 3:53pm UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/colorado-beekeepers/1200/128 "2016-12-08T15:53:20Z")
Kristinahoney, I’ve kept your classes in mind, thinking of this Sunday morn maybe for Part A. But December and Sundays make it hard (actually winter driving to Boulder would always be touch and go for me, besides the hour drive). But let us know about any other class times in the future. You’re in Boulder and that’s where I ordered my bees from (tho they actually came from Calif, I found out). Nuc order time is around the corner, where would you suggest ordering from? I did surround the three sides and top of my hive with 2" foam - the bees sound happy and are eating the sugar/pollen fondant. ---
**Author:** ![Kristinahoney](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a9a28c/32.png) [@Kristinahoney](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/Kristinahoney)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2017, 1:14am UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/colorado-beekeepers/1200/129 "2017-01-28T01:14:23Z")
Hi Everyone! In my neck of the woods it’s going to be warm enough this weekend to look for bee activity and give the hives a heft to see how much food is left. More on my Facebook page BeehaveLLC. I’ll be teaching classes again! Here’s a brief summary and you can see more on my website [http://beehavementoring.com](http://beehavementoring.com) or if it doesn’t redirect, then [https://sites.google.com/view/beehavementoring](https://sites.google.com/view/beehavementoring) **Beekeeping is NOT for Dummies** Sat 4 Feb 8:30 am -5:30 pm Sat 11 Feb 8:30 am -5:30 pm Sat 4 Mar 8:30 am -5:30 pm Sat 11 Mar 8:30 am -5:30 pm **Early Spring Management - Feeding and Swarm Control** Thurs 2 Feb 7-9pm Thurs 16 Feb 7-9pm **Starting Right with Packages, Nucs, Swarms** Thurs 2 Mar 7-9pm Thurs 16 Mar 7-9pm **Fight the Mite - Varroa Management** Thurs 6 Apr 6-8pm Thurs 13 Apr 6-8pm **SPECIAL OFFER!** If you are within a 2 mile flight radius of my bees (see map below), you can attend for FREE! This is how concerned/committed I am about varroa’s effect on honey bee health and the importance of a neighborhood approach to managing it! Please let me know if you’re coming. Spring isn’t far off. Maples will bloom and queens will start laying in February. Hang in there! Cheers, Kristina Williams Boulder, CO ---
**Author:** ![Kristinahoney](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a9a28c/32.png) [@Kristinahoney](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/Kristinahoney)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2017, 1:22am UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/colorado-beekeepers/1200/130 "2017-01-28T01:22:11Z")
I’m updating then CSBA website with springtime info (I’m an advisor now). This is my first venture into a real website, but I think the basics are there, like where to get bees, equipment, information on bee health, and the bee club nearest you. Check it out. [http://coloradobeekeepers.org](http://coloradobeekeepers.org) Cheers, Kristina Williams Boulder, CO ---
**Author:** ![Kristinahoney](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a9a28c/32.png) [@Kristinahoney](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/Kristinahoney)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2017, 4:06am UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/colorado-beekeepers/1200/132 "2017-11-25T04:06:28Z")
Only 3 1/4 hours left for the Early Bee registration rates for the Colorado State Beekeepers Winter Meeting! After midnight tonight rates go up by $5 (and it will get harder to figure out how many lunches to preorder). Check out the program and register at [http://coloradobeekeepers.org/2017-winter-bee-meeting.html](http://coloradobeekeepers.org/2017-winter-bee-meeting.html) Bee There or Bee Square! Kristina Williams Mile Hive Bee Club Prez BCBA, CSBA boards Beehave LLC ---
**Author:** ![Kristinahoney](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a9a28c/32.png) [@Kristinahoney](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/Kristinahoney)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2017, 1:14am UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/colorado-beekeepers/1200/133 "2017-12-27T01:14:45Z")
Hi, Beekeepers! The 2018 National Western Stock Show will take place from January 6 - 21. The Boulder County Beekeepers Association provides a beekeepers’ booth, but I think all of us in the Metro Denver area did a great job of staffing it last year and I’d like to do it again. After all, many of those people are from the Denver area, which is our home territory. This gives us a unique opportunity to talk with thousands of people about the incredible honey bee. Public outreach helps us all with a wide variety of human interactions with bees — municipal ordinances about bees, neighbor relations, planting pollinator forage, applications of pesticides, purchase of honey and other bee products, and general good will and support for honey bees and other pollinators. Please consider signing up for a shift here [https://doodle.com/poll/kadfp9u9mztqiwwn](https://doodle.com/poll/kadfp9u9mztqiwwn) . It’s great fun to go to the National Western Stock Show, plus you get to share your knowledge and passion for bees with anyone who walks by. Beginning beekeepers, don’t worry that you don’t know enough. You know lots more than the crowds that are just walking by, and your enthusiasm is infectious — sign up! You can use this link to sign up, change shifts, check when your friends are working. Please try to stick to your shift so we don’t have to scramble at the last minute to cover holes. Thanks for stepping up, and for being part of our greater beekeeping and agricultural community. The booth will be in the Education Hall, yellow brick building with black cameos of various stock animals (no bees) on the front. Since this is an educational booth, we have tickets to cover your general admission and parking. We’ll distribute them once everyone is signed up. Along with being an educational booth, we’re prohibited from doing or displaying anything remotely commercial. So, no sales, business cards, advertising or displays of your wares, please. Bee clubs can display their cards and we’ll have the CSBA Why join a bee club? flyers with local clubs’ stickers on the back. (There’s also a stipulation that no drones are allowed, but we’re assuming that queens and workers are okay. ; ) Woopie-ty-ay-o! Kristina Williams Colorado State amnd Boulder County Beekeepers Ass’ns boards Mile Hive Bee Club president ---
**Author:** ![tredekop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f9ae1b/32.png) [@tredekop](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/tredekop)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 9:19pm UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/colorado-beekeepers/1200/134 "2018-05-29T21:19:24Z")
My bees are drinking a lot of water this year. More than what I’ve noticed before. But maybe its because they finally are drinking from the water i have setup for them. ![Bees_Drinking](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/honeyflow/original/2X/e/e2a7099699807b4f127e7291aa0b3bd35842c13c.jpg) [Previous page](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/colorado-beekeepers/1200.md?page=6)