Delaware Bee History
1936
DSBA founded
1937
John Amos Study of Roadside Marketing published
1938
1st Annual Meeting
1940
3rd (Jan) & 4th (Dec) Annual Meetings DSBA
1943-45
NO Meetings
1946
5th Annual Meeting (June) DSBA; DE Apiary Law written (passed 1947)
1949
8th Annual Meeting DSBA; UD Apiary established by Dr Dale Bray; DE Apairy Law revised for EFB.
1955
14th Annual meeting; Dr Richard Darsie, Entomology Dept UD spoke
on “Bees & Sprays”
1956
Following 15th Annual Meeting [at UD] association DISBANDS
1969
Dr Dale Bray organized UD meeting and revives Association; Joint meeting with MD beekeepers at Salisbury, MD
1971
Proposed Newark ordinance prohibiting “Pigs and Bees” defeated by beekeepers.
1973
1st appearance of Dewey Caron at DE meeting; DDA gets 1st ETO fumigation chamber (Richard Goerger Apiary Inspector)
1974
Issue #1 NEWSY BEE [December]
1975
Phil Bowman becomes 1st “full time” DDA Apiary Inspector
1977
EAS 1st tiem in DE Dale Bray President, Dr Gay VP
1981
Issue #18-20 NEWSY BEE; Dewey Caron on DSBA program [1st year as Entomology Department Chair]
1983
Silver Issue #25 [Charles Mason editor] of NEWSY BEE
1984
Issue #32 NEWSY BEE (Sept) Dewey Caron becomes editor
1985
Bob Mitchell becomes full time Apiary Inspector; tracheal mites “discovered”
1986
EAS in DE; Dewey Caron President, Robert MacIntire VP
1987
DE gets 2nd ETO chamber (in use until 1997); DE Apiary Law revised.
1988
Bob MacIntire, Angola becomes 1st DE Master Beekeeper (the Payne’s would follow two years later); Joint Meeting with MD (Salisbury)
1992
Bob Mitchell discovers 1st Varroa in DE bees during inspection (in package cols)
1995
Dover passes restrictive bee ordinance
1996
DE meeting leads to development of regional bee res/ext program MAAREC
1997
EAS for 3rd time in DE; Warren Seaver, President, Bob Mitchell VP; Jerry Caldwell receives recognition for his Boy Scout bee effort with Divelbiss award
1999
State Fair exhibits takes 1st place (+ again in 2000); Dewey Caron publishes textbook: HONEY BEE BIOLOGY & BEEKEEPING
2001
SHB discovered in Bee package at UD; Africanized Honey Bee book published
2002
ISSUE # 100 NEWSY BEE (Caron still editor)
2004
50th Annual Meeting DSBA.
2005
Electronic publishing of NEWSY BEE begins
2006
UD Africanized Honey Bee meeting & Action Plan developed (1st plan 1994) 2007 EAS for 4th time in DE; Dewey Caron retires after Issue # 122 NEWSY BEE.