Month: March 2026
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NWIABKA Annual Meeting April 26,2026
Read More: NWIABKA Annual Meeting April 26,2026Sunday, April 26, 2-4:30 pm Expo Building on the Dickinson County Fairgrounds 1600 15th St., Spirit Lake, IA The NWIABKA annual meeting is the opportunity for members to join in fellowship with beekeepers to celebrate beekeeping and the good work of the Association. What to expect at the 2026 annual meeting. Guest Speaker: Entomologist and 17 year beekeeping…
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Level 3 Beekeeping Class – March 28, 8:30 a.m
Read More: Level 3 Beekeeping Class – March 28, 8:30 a.mAdvanced techniques for mastering beekeeping. Skills: Small scale raising of local queens: selecting and culling breeder colonies, managing for successful mating of virgin queens, managing five frame and double nucs as “brood factories”, using the Demaree (and modified Demaree) split for swarm control, quality control for selling nucs and queens, IPM and biosecurity advanced practices, and…
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Beekeeping Classes to attend
Read More: Beekeeping Classes to attendLevel 2 – February 28th, 2026, Saturday 8:30 a.m. registration at the Expo Building, Dickinson County Fairgrounds, Spirit Lake, IA. Level 2 – Saturday, February 28 – Raising healthy & resilient colonies that overwinter and thrive. Skills: Making spring and late season splits; maintaining emergency queen nucs; requeening colonies, managing five frame and double nucs that overwinter; Integrated…
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NWIABKA ‘25-’26 Mid-Year Update
Read More: NWIABKA ‘25-’26 Mid-Year UpdateSeason’s Greetings from your NWIABKA Board of Directors, Hopefully your beekeeping activities have quieted down enough as winter approaches to read a mid-year update about where we’ve been and where we hope to go in 2026. Not long after our annual meeting we held a zoom meeting with Dr. Kiara Wagoner about a new means…
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Iowa Honey Producers Association’s Annual Conference
Read More: Iowa Honey Producers Association’s Annual ConferenceThe Northwest Iowa Beekeepers Association is pleased to once again offer two scholarships for first time attendees to the Iowa Honey Producers Association’s Annual Conference, Friday, October 24th and Saturday, October 25th at the Prairie Meadows Events & Conference Center, Altoona, IA. Qualifying applicants should have their dues with NWIABKA up to date for the 7/1/25-6/30/26 year…
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Preparing Colonies to Survive Winter
Read More: Preparing Colonies to Survive WinterNWIABKA Bee Smart Zoom Meeting Thursday, September 18, 7:30 pm. Preparing Colonies to Survive Winter Managing Colonies During Extreme Fall Winter Zoom, Contact Tim for zoom link tim@nwiabka.org if you are a member of NWIABKATopics: Late season feeding of colonies – reviewing Georgia beekeeper, Bob Binnie’s lessons on “The Chemistry Behind Feeding Bees” Late season Varroa mite…
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Beekeepers Fair Booth September 6-14th, 2025
Read More: Beekeepers Fair Booth September 6-14th, 2025NWIABKA has a honey bee booth at Clay County Fair in Spencer Iowa. This Week September 6-14, 2025. Please visit us and purchase some local honey products from local area honey producers. Located at east entrance building: Tower Gate Pavilion Speak with members of Northwest Iowa Beekeepers Association to learn more about bees and become a member of…
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Rendering wax and creating saleable products.
Read More: Rendering wax and creating saleable products.August 24th, 2025 Sunday 2-4:30 pm – Association Meeting – NWIABKA members. NWIABKA Board member Jean Irwin will demonstrate how she adds value to her beekeeping business by rendering wax and creating saleable products. Options for managing high moisture honey – (robbing & Varroa control if delaying the removal of honey supers) Demonstration of techniques for preparing…
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Managing Virgin Queens
Read More: Managing Virgin QueensHello Beekeepers, Congratulations on joining the journey to move toward self-sufficient & resilient beekeeping that has the potential for improved winter survivability and healthier bees. With your Lloyd St. VSH virgin queens you may observe the post summer solstice mated queen phenomenon of a vibrant young summer queen that is an egg laying machine while…
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Manage Queen Bee Class June 22, 2025 Time: 2-4:30 pm
Read More: Manage Queen Bee Class June 22, 2025 Time: 2-4:30 pmNWIABKA Association Meeting Topic: The Principles & Practices of On the Spot (OTS) Queen Rearing Guest Speaker: Phil Breed, VP of Siouxland Beekeepers & OTS Practitioner Sunday, June 22,2025 2-4:30 pm Dickinson County (ISU) Extension and Outreach Office, 1600 15th Street, Spirit Lake, IA Class Description from Phil: “Ready to be a small-scale beekeeper ASAP (As…
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NWIABKA Annual Meeting April 26,2026
Sunday, April 26, 2-4:30 pm Expo Building on the Dickinson…
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Level 3 Beekeeping Class – March 28, 8:30 a.m
Advanced techniques for mastering beekeeping. Skills: Small scale raising of local…
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Beekeeping Classes to attend
Level 2 – February 28th, 2026, Saturday 8:30 a.m. registration…