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Find out if oregon's latest cottage food exemption impacts how you harvest and sell your hive products

What is the Cottage Food Exemption? The Cottage Food Exemption allows people to produce certain food items in their home kitchens and sell them retail to consumers, in-person or online, and wholesale through grocers and other businesses without having to obtain a food establishment license or undergo an inspection from the Oregon Department of Agriculture (ODA).

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Be on the lookout for small hive beetles


The small hive beetle is an invasive and damaging pest of honey bee colonies. It has been occasionally observed in honey bee colonies in Oregon, but no significant damage from this beetle has yet been reported. It is not clear whether this beetle can thrive in Oregon’s soil and climatic conditions. Early detection, reporting, and monitoring of small hive beetles may help mitigate its establishment in this region.

Keep small hive beetle OUT of Oregon!

Learn them, watch for them, and report them!

The adults are:

  • brown to black in color
  • oval shaped
  • about ΒΌ inch (5.7 mm) long (about one-third the size of a honey bee)
  • stout, squat in shape
  • no additional elongated segments of the other beetles

Where to find them:

  • Cracks and crevices in colony
  • Weak colonies
  • Honey houses with stored honey supers
  • Protein patties

Prevent SHB establishment!

  • Keep strong colonies
  • Promptly remove deadouts
  • Extract honey immediately after harvest
  • Do not feed protein patties during almond pollination
  • Carefully inspect packages, nucs, queens purchased from areas with established SHB
  • Watch for them, report them if you find them.


Mission

The Oregon State Beekeepers Association is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the well-being of honey bees and to the fields of beekeeping, apiculture, research, and education. The association is organized exclusively for charitable, education, and/or scientific purposes under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Our stated purpose is to unite the beekeepers of Oregon in an effort to improve beekeeping in the state.

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The Oregon State Beekeepers Association is a non-profit organization dedicated to the well-being of honey bees and to the fields of beekeeping, apiculture, research, and education. Members of the OSBA are a diverse group of individuals who share a fascination for the honey bee and its workings. We range from full-time beekeepers and pollinators with thousands of hives to hobbyists involved in back-yard beekeeping.

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