Gala December Club Meeting, 2015

[jeanne hansen]

I hope all of you are planning to come to our Gala December Club Meeting, Fitchburg Library, 6:30 pm. on Tuesday Dec. 1. Besides cleaning wax and making various kinds of candles, we also have business about our club paver for the Minnesota Pollinators Lab, being build for/by Marla Spivak. Please note that the lab is not only for honeybees, but for all pollinators. Perhaps this should be reflected in the verse we choose?

Attached are the 10 verses that have been submitted. This list will be reduced to the favorite 3 by a vote at the meeting. If you can't attend, please send me your votes by e-mail. I plan to have the final vote for one verse at the January meeting, or else here on the list-serve; does anyone have a preference?

Further donations for the paver have come in, bringing the total to $180 out of a needed $250. I will again pass the hat, so people who haven't yet donated will be able to do so. Bring small bills to the meeting!

Thanks!
Jeanne Hansen
824 Jacobson Ave
Madison, WI 53714
608-244-5094

[Joseph Bessetti]

Hi All,

 

I'm looking for bulk beeswax to use in making foundation.  I would love to find a source for purchase of 50-100 lbs or more from beekeepers who have not used synthetic chemicals for mite treatment.  Dadant and others sell bulk wax for $7 - $8 per pound, but it is broadly known to contain detectable levels of coumaphos (CheckMite), fluvalinate (Apistan), or amitraz (Apivar), and I would prefer to avoid these if I can.  Wax foundation from Dadant and others is similarly contaminated.

 

If anyone has extra wax that they are willing to sell, which hasn't been exposed to synthetic mite treatments (formic acid, thymol, and oxalic acid are OK),  please contact me.

 

Thanks,

 

Joe

[jeanne hansen]

Joe,

I have close to 5 pounds of clean wax, all from honey supers. The supers go on after spring treatments are over, and come off before fall treatments go on. I only use the treatments you mentioned, and then only in the brood nest.

I would be willing to sell the wax to you for $7 per pound. My phone number is below.

Thanks!
Jeanne Hansen
824 Jacobson Ave
Madison, WI 53714
608-244-5094

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[William Palmer]

Joe;  You could reach out to the top bar beeks. To harvest , they cut and crush and strain the honey.  There wax would be as clean as you could get. The small starter strip of foundation would be of no consequence.   

  You may have trouble getting wax in a large quantity.

          Just a suggestion.     William Palmer    East Troy Honey.

[lin...@tds.net]

As I recall the researchers who tested wax in recent years found impurities in all samples they tested.  Worldwide.  No pure wax exists.  check the Bee-L list for further information.  Larry

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[Matthew Hennek]

As I recall Larry, that study was looking for agrochemicals. I can't imagine how amitraz or coumaphos would be found in treatment free hives. It's like looking for nicotine on a non-smokers clothing vs a smokers: sure technically you might find it on both but the levels will be vastly different.

Personally joe, you might want to exclude thymol as well given its lipophillic nature.

[Joseph Bessetti]

Everything is relative.  Better natural comb with minimal contamination than 5 year old combs being rotated out of an annual synthetic chemical treatment program.  A lot of agricultural pesticides show up in many of those samples at alarming levels too, unfortunately.  There's no way to avoid contamination even in our food and water anymore.  

Thanks,

Joe

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