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Types of Honey Bees and their Traits

A link to the W.A.S. news letter – May, 2016

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Bob Reiners is our SD State Apiarist and he will provide free hive inspections for those of you who have registered your hives with the State AND you have lost your colony for unknown reasons.  He will try to help determine what went wrong.  His contact information (as well as information for all other states) can be found here – the Apiary Inspectors of America.

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In South Dakota, you must register your honey bee hives within 10 days of aquiring your bees.  As of this writing (2011), the registration fee is $12.00 per location.  Follow this link to get a printable ‘Application for Registration and Permanent Location Permit‘.  Here’s a map to the registered apiaries in Pennington County

See ‘Contact/About‘ for links to newspaper articles about local beekeepers

Links to Other Pages on this Site

• Colony Collapse Disorder – various articles on Colony Collapse Disorder
• Honey Bees Disappearing – various articles – some related to Colony Collapse Disorder
• Save the Bees – Avaaz organization petitioning to save the bees

South Dakota Links of Interest

• SD Department of Agriculture – Apiary Program
• SD Department of Agriculture site – The Value of Honey Bees

References & Educational Tutorials

• From June, 2013 – Marla Spivak:  Why bees are disappearing
• The Warre’ Store Site is full of information on bees and beekeeping
• Brushy Mountain Bee Farm(great resource for beekeeping videos & more)
  • Brushy Mountain Farm Videos
• Hive Tracks– an application that lets you create your own hive tracking and record maintenance on-line
  • Brush Mountain Farms HiveTrack Video 1
  • Brushy Mountain Farms HiveTrack Video 2
• Sourcing to stem illegal honey (RC Journal, December 2010)
• State Beekeepers / Colony Collapse Disorder Study (RC Journal, June 2010)
• University of Georgia – Honey Bees and Beekeeping – a very good beekeeping overview & tutorial.

Articles about other beekeepers in our area

• Cheyenne, WY Bee Whisperer (August, 2009)

Other Organizations/Sites

The following is a list of beekeeping websites (or links to specific pages) that you may find useful.  If you know of any other sites of interest, contact the bee club (or use the Blog link) to let us know of others that should be added.

• Milwaukee Waukesha Beekeepers Association
• Back Yard Beekeepers Association (Conneticut)
• Back Yard Beekeepers ‘Beekeepers Calendar’

Government Policies and Programs