2023 SPRING BEELINE

• Meet our new honey queen and princess

• New CIBA officers

• Are honey bees the good guys or the bad guys?

• Brood box size: important things to consider

• And more...

2023 WINTER BEELINE

• What’s in your bee tool box?

• CIBA gets nonprofit status

• Observation hive are great

• Keeping bees in CRP

• And more...

2022 FALL BEELINE

• Meet Val Just

• Cherry Glen Learning Farm

• Susan Kelly Remembrances

• Winter Survival

• Check Your Smoker

• And more...

2022 Summer BEELINE

• Meet Don Sievers

• Auction photos

• CIBA community apiary update

• Adding supers

• Making mead

• And more...

2022 Spring BEELINE

• New CIBA Honey Queen Olivia Moody

• A handy new feature: Central Iowa Timeline of Beekeeping Tasks

• Step-by-step method to do splits

• Meet CIBA board member Jim Crandell

• Andy Joseph’s tips on cooking with honey

• Register your bee hives

• And more...

2022 Special Edition New Beeks

• Various resources for new beekeepers

• Beekeeping magazines​

• Local and online resources for supplies

• Benefits of joining a club such as CIBA

• Tips and Tricks

• Iowa Honey Bee Day

• And more...

2021 Winter BEELINE

• Meet Susan Kelly

• CIBA Royalty, A reason to be proud

• Remembering our friend, Pat Randol

• New phenology planner

• Marketing and label tips from the experts

• CIBA moves closer to federal nonprofit status

• And more...

2021 Fall BEELINE

• What’s going on inside your hive? New ways to know!

• Touring member apiaries, a great experience

• Looking ahead to the Winter Seminar

• Meet new board member, Mark Moberly

• Honey bees and soybeans, a good combination

• Honey harvest and extracting for the beginner

2021 Summer BEELINE

• Online auction is a success!

• Meet new board member Ray Knapp

• New apiary contests at the fair

• Essential tasks for beekeepers

• Margaret’s FAQs

• And more!

2021 Spring BEELINE

• CIBA has a queen AND a king!

• Meet long-time CIBA member and state bee inspector Arvin Foell

• Details about our annual auction

• News from our state apiarist and extension bee expert

• And more!

2021 Special Edition New Beeks

• Various resources for new beekeepers

  • Beekeeping magazines​

  • Local and online resources for supplies

• Benefits of joining a club such as CIBA

• Tips and Tricks

• Iowa Honey Bee Day

• And more...

2020 Winter BEELINE

• Introducing new CIBA website

• Bright future for CIBA Royalty program

• Are beekeeping classes for you?

• What to do with all that beeswax: Body cream, beeswax wraps

• And more...

2020 Fall BEELINE

• Tribute to John Johnson

• Extraction on the go

• What to do with all that beeswax

• Beekeeping mistakes to avoid

• New research: Bees and native flowers

• And more...

2020 Summer BEELINE

• Making up a honey bee nuc

• What to do with all that beeswax: Candles

• Building a wax melter

• New research: How bee virus spreads

• And more...

2020 Spring BEELINE

• Caring for and installation of package bees

• Great Plains Master Beekeeping Program

• Cover crops become bee pastures

• And more...

2020 Special Edition New Beeks BEELINE

• Local and online beekeeping resources

• FAQ's

• Beekeeping magazines

• Practical beekeeping articles

• And more...

2019 Winter BEELINE

• Liquifying crystalized honey

• Get to know your leadership: Trisha Hedges

• Great Plains Master Beekeeping Program

• And more...

2019 Fall BEELINE

• News from your Extension entomologist

• US-approved varroa chemical treatments

• Wintering bees in central Iowa

• Queen’s Corner

• And more...

2019 Summer BEELINE

• John Johnson recognized for community service

• Get to know your leadership: Jim Crandell

• Meet a mentor extraordinaire: John Johnson

• New research: Weed killer residues found in 98% Canadian honey samples

• And more...

2019 Spring BEELINE

• BeeCheck apiary registry

• Trees are the bees knees

• Think and research that plant before you plant it

• Creamed honey tips

• And more...

2018 Winter BEELINE

• CIBA auction update

• Trees are the bees knees

• Get to know your leadership: Jeremiah Kusel

• And more...

2018 Fall BEELINE

• CIBA Queen Cameron Vannoy

• Get to know your leadership: Jamie Beyer

• Biology of the varroa mite: What you need to know

• And more...

2018 Summer BEELINE

• CIBA committee opportunities

• Beekeepers around the world: Chuck Magri

• Get to know your leadership: Steve Hanlin

• National Pollinator Week

• And more...

2018 Spring BEELINE

• Get to know your leadership: Jolene Eriksen

• Honey bee swarms

• Splitting a colony

• And more...

2017 Winter BEELINE

• Honey bees help scientists create new antibiotics

• Eight things that happen when you eat honey daily

• Get to know your leadership: Margaret Hala

• Buzzworthy honey recipes

• And more...

2017 Fall BEELINE

• Get to know your leadership: Valerie Just

• Winter hive preparation

• Life’s Lessons: A humbling experience

• Absconding: The mysterious disappearance of colonies

• And more...

2017 Summer BEELINE

• Get to know your leadership: Mike Sander

• USDA: Iowa honey statistics

• Queenless colony: What to do

• State Fair honey requirements

• And more...

2017 Spring BEELINE

• Sensitive Crops Directory update

• Show me the honey

• Musings from a neophyte beekeeper

• Mentoring

• And more...