The Blog is Back!

After an over 8 year hiatus, we are resurrecting the old blog to make information available about club activities.  The website which replaced the blog is down for the foreseeable future, so we'll resume posting information here.  When we get a website back up, We'll post that here too.

We still have the highly active Facebook group, but not everyone uses FB.

Frankly, I'm shocked any of us still had a working logon.

This is the OLD blog for COBA - Central Oklahoma Beekeepers Association, LLC

This is the OLD blog for COBA - Central Oklahoma Beekeepers Association, LLC

For the latest information, please go to one of the following:

COBA Website:

• centralokbeekeepers.org 

COBA Facebook Group:

•  www.facebook.com/groups/CentralOkBeekeepersAssoc

COBA Christmas Party - Friday, December 18, 7pm-9pm

For dues-paying member families only.  Sorry folks, this is the only event of the year restricted to dues-paying members only.

We could use help with decorations! If you have any greenery or other Christmas decorations you'd like to bring, we'd love to have some help at 6:30pm. 

Please bring food to share and items for the drawing. The club is supplying some very nice things! 

If you are a COBA member, please join us!!!

October 22 COBA Meeting reminder

COBA's last regular meeting of the year will be Thursday, October 22, at 7:00 pm
 Will Rogers Gardens Exhibition Center
 3400 NW 36th St
 Oklahoma City  OK  73112

Items on the agenda include:
  Pauls Valley bee truck wreck (suggestions for improved response/management)
  Colony Management through January
  Making Mead
  Winter feed reminders
  Time for mouse guards
  Class starting Saturday October 24
  OSBA Meeting November 7

As usual, we appreciate your bee-related contributions to the door prize drawing, and snacks.  Beverages will be supplied by COBA.

While this is the last regular meeting of the year, COBA will have the usual paid-members-only Christmas party at the same time and location on Friday 12/18.

September COBA meeting is WEDNESDAY September 23 (Not Thursday)

September COBA meeting will be WEDNESDAY Sept 23, 7pm-9pm at Will Rogers Gardens.

Ms Urkhardt will be speaking about bee-friendly native flowering plants.

Forest Chapman will give a presentation about horizontal hives.

Please bring food to share or an item for the drawing.

Oklahoma State Fair beginning soon. Warning to nearby beekeepers.

If you live within 3 miles of the Oklahoma State Fairgrounds, Caroline Baker made a very good suggestion:

Start feeding your bees now, and continuously feed them through the end of the State Fair. If they start feeding at the fairgrounds, they are likely to get poisoned

The fair sells LOTS of sweet things (soda, cotton candy, caramel apples, ...). If the bees become a nuisance there, they may be deliberately poisoned. Caroline has lost hives that way before, when she lived near a fairgrounds.