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March 2024 Events

1. Tickets for Steve Gibson Chance Drawing:  Dru: [email protected] Randy Edwards: [email protected]   2. Youth Scholarship Applications, email to either: Dru [email protected]   4. Bee Curious Bee Market vendor registration https://www.eventbrite.com/e/861799143437?aff=oddtdtcreator   5. Western Landscape Symposium Sign-Up Genius https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0B48ACAC2AA5FFC25-48533964-western   6. Average Joe Beekeeper: Joe Komperda a. [email protected], email for PDF version of the presentation, put “Dead-Out PDF” in the subject line b. Honey Bee Health Coalition Book, free download: https://honeybeehealthcoalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/HBHC-Guide_Varroa-Mgmt_8thEd-082422.pdf   7. Scott Tanner, Hives for Heroes hivesforheroes.org   8. Mentor Program, email either [email protected] Rick Ludwig: [email protected]   9. PCBA membership registration https://www.eventbrite.com/e/765768372817?aff=oddtdtcreator   10. Science Fair Judge Pam Caprio: [email protected]   11. CSU: Extension Plant Sale https://i0.wp.com/puebloshed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/2024-SHED-Plant-Sale-Half-Sheet-Flyer-2.21.24.jpg?ssl=1 Click here to subscribe to our eNewsletter to be notified about next events.

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PCBA Biennial Speaker Conference & Vendor Fair

Pathfinder Park Event Center Address: 6655 CO-115 Florence, CO 81226 Phone: (719) 276-7399 Saturday, March 29th, 2025 • Starts at 8 am Speaker Event will include: Professional speakers, vendor booths, silent auction, chance drawing, food trucks on-site selling coffee, breakfast and lunch, etc. Click here to subscribe to our eNewsletter to receive updates about and register for this next event.

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Varroa Mite Clinic – Field Day

EventBright Sign Up Members, make sure to use your code for the discount, click “apply” discount. Saturday, June 8, 2024 10:30am – 2pm Register at EventBright to find location of the event. A hands-on workshop on managing varroa mites in your beehives. Our experienced beekeepers will teach you practical strategies to keep your bees healthy and thriving. Don’t miss this opportunity to connect with fellow bee enthusiasts and gain valuable knowledge to protect your precious pollinators. We will also have a light lunch for all that are enrolled. Please bring: A chair, sunscreen, bee suit, water to drink. No refunds. Click here to subscribe to our eNewsletter to be notified about this next event.

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Bee Caste & Communication

National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is part of the United States National Library of Medicine (NLM), a branch of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Together with the honey bee dance, honey bee pheromones represent one of the most advanced ways of communication among social insects. Pheromones are chemical substances secreted by an animal’s exocrine glands that elicit a behavioral or physiological response by another animal of the same species. In honey bees the targets of pheromonal messages are usually members of the same colony, but there are some exceptions in which the target can be a member of another colony (Free 1987). The composite organization of the honey bee society, which consists of three adult castes (queen, worker, and male) and non-self-sufficient brood, provides for many coordinated activities and developmental processes and thus needs a similar elaborate way of communication among the colony members. Pheromones are the key factor in generating and maintaining this complexity, assuring a broad plasticity of functions that allow the colony to deal with unforeseen events or changing environmental conditions. Pheromones are involved in almost every aspect of the honey bee colony life: development and reproduction (including queen mating and swarming), foraging, defense, orientation, and in general the whole integration of colony activities, from foundation to decline. Pheromones allow communication among all the honey bee castes: queen–workers, workers–workers, queen–drones, and between adult bees and brood (Trhlin and Rajchard 2011; Winston 1987). In honey bees, as in other animals, there are two types of pheromones: primer pheromones and releaser pheromones. Primer pheromones act at a physiological level, triggering complex and long-term responses in the receiver and generating both developmental and behavioral changes. Releaser pheromones have a weaker effect, generating a simple and transitory response that influences the receiver only at the behavioral level… Click to read more: Chemical Communication in the Honey Bee Society  

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