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Paper Newsletter: The Florida
Beekeeper
The Florida State Association publishes a quarterly newsletter, The
Florida Beekeeper, in booklet form that also contains
advertisements. A paper edition is sent my regular mail to members
only. The following is a sample for illustrative purposes and
does not reflect the current format:
Newsletter
of May 4, 2004
Electronic Dissemination of Information: As the newsletter
comes out only quarterly, much of the Association's other business
and news of a more urgent natjure is sent by electronic mail via the
F.S.B.A. list at Yahoo.com. This is a list moderated by the Executive
Secretary and open to anyone whether member or not.
Only important messages strictly relating
to the Association's activities will be posted and forwarded.
Members can expect no more than a handful of messages a month.
Importantly, this is a self-managed list by users themselves, and
therefore, does not take up anyone's valuable time in doing the
tedious activity of managing subscriptions.
There are many other electronic lists that beekeepers may wish to
participate in, including:
1. The Florida
Beekeepers list moderated by Doc Bullard, a life member of the
Association.
2. The electronic Apis
Newsletter published by Dr. Malcolm T.
Sanford, Professor
Emeritus, University of Florida and sponsored by Bee Culture
magazine, and also a life member of the Association.
For a more comprehensive list of electronic
communication resources, see "Digital
Dialogue" at Beesource.com.
Northeast Florida Short Course: January
14, 2006.
Africanized Honey Bees In The News:
A spate of news (June 2005) about
Africanized honey bees has caused a stir in Florida. The
Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Pest
Alert web page at the University of Florida provides relevant
information (scroll down to see entries). Besides that there
have been reports of the bee in southwest Arkansas, and Texas
has decided to no longer quarantine honey bees in that state for
being Africanized. Updated analyses on this insect were
published in both the November 2004 and June 2005 paper newsletters.
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