April Meeting

Our April Meeting is this Tuesday April 28Th @ 7 pm. We meet at the OSU County Extension Office, NW 10th and Portland in Oklahoma City. Our meeting will be on what you need to be doing next month (May) and Collecting Swarms. If time allows we will also cover Honey Bee Removal.


The yellow sweet clover has begun to bloom officially starting our honey flow here in Central Okla. Also the vetch, black locust trees, crimson clover, Dutch clover, Canola and Alfalfa are all presently blooming. I planted some Mustard and Turnips for the deer last fall. The Mustard bloomed all the way through February and then I mowed it down. Now the Turnips and the Mustard are blooming again.

When Carol and I were in Sacramento last year I talked to a local beekeeper and he said they get a honey crop from wild mustard every year. Maybe Okla. needs some wild mustard?

Well the small hive beetles are most definitely here. If you haven't seen them you need to look fast. See you at the meeting Tom