We meet the 3rd Thursday of the month, 1:30 p.m. at the OSU Extension office, 1211 SE Bay Blvd, Newport, OR. Mailing address:
Central Coast Beekeepers
P.O. Box 1916
Newport, Oregon 97365
Don’t miss this opportunity at our July 16th meeting……
Benjamin Nichols will be discussing honey bee nutrition which is a vital component of honey bee health, but is often overlooked. Summers and falls in western Oregon are noted for their rough forage conditions. Benjamin’s presentation will discuss the basics of honey bee nutrition, impacts on the health of both individual bees and the colony. He will also discuss ways beekeepers can manage their apiaries to mitigate risks in regards to local forage.
Benjamin was born, raised, and lived in central Illinois for most of his life. He came to Oregon two years ago to work on his PhD at the Oregon State University honey bee lab. He has worked with honey bees for nearly ten years, and conducted research with them over the past five years. He is very passionate about honey bee nutrition, integrated pest management, and resource management that help our honey bees and native pollinators. His dream is to have a small beekeeping business in the coastal range working on honey bee nutrition research, and applying land management techniques to provide bees with a year-round buffet in this beautiful part of the world.
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See our newsletter for the calendar and schedule or our full list of presenters, topics and links for 2026.
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Thanks to everyone who participated in the PNW honey bee survey!
Beginning in May you may go to pnwhoneybeesurvey.com to find reports of state and local bee club responses. All responses are anonymous without identifying individual respondents.
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Typical bee friendly plants of the central Oregon coast.
Honey Bee Videos from OSU
Carolyn Breece of OSU Oak Creek Apiary fame has put together a video channel with some great stuff on many aspects of the honey bee world. Check it out.
In the Bees with the OSU Honey Bee Lab
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