SIBA meetings occur the 3rd Thursday of each month, 6:30pm at the Sunman American Legion unless otherwise stated ahead of time. ALL are welcome! No dues. Monthly newsletters are sent out typically the Monday before the meeting. Subscribe to our newsletter for timely tips and meeting reminders from our website home page.

Join us this Thurs. to hear David Hocutt talk Honey bee anatomical structures, honey bee communication, honey bee pheromones and the effect they have on honeybees, and honey bee reproduction on an individual and colony level.

Club librarian, Don Burkart will be leading the topic of meadmaking for the December meeting!

Mike and Debbie Seib will present "Marketing Honey & Indiana Labeling Regulations" and give us an update on The Beekeepers of Indiana and the upcoming Bee school in February.

Garry Reeves and Jeff Montag will be demonstrating their methods for “Swarm Prevention for Honey Production”.

Mike Bentz will be presenting “Queen Rearing Basics and Equipment”.

Roger Rickabaugh will present “Growing Your Apiary”.

Bring your veils, a bottle of water and maybe even a chair for this one, and weather permitting, we'll get outside and look into some hives! Jason Morgan will cover monitoring varroa in your hives.