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George Imirie's PINK PAGES

About This Project

What's New
Got Back Issues?
Important Note!
Thanks!
About This Project
Status of This Project
Notes About Editing
About Me

What's New

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NEW 2023! PINK PAGES IS BACK! Sorry to all of you who've missed this site and its wealth of information. After 10 years of independent agile consulting (I'm NOT a web designer - can you tell?) I took a full-time job in 2020 and let my website lapse. Since then, a steady barrage of emails caused me to search for a MUCH more reasonably priced hosting solution, which I've found in AccuWebHosting. I bought the hosting plan over the weekend and after playing with CPanel and some A records, here we are!

Believe it or not, I DO have content to add and update, thanks to a series of emails back in 2018 from Jerry Worrell, a founding members of the Association of Southern Maryland Beekeepers. Thank you Jerry.

I switched to AccuWebHosting as my new hosting provider on Sunday 2023-05-14. Please let me know if you experience any access issues - email me at My Email Address if you encounter any problems with the site on its new host.

I believe I've updated all pages to use SSL. Please let me know if you come across any pages that don't show the "Lock" on your browser's address line indicating a secure connection.

Got Back Issues? Send Them In!

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Do you have issues of George Imirie's Pink Pages that I don't have on this site? I welcome Pink Pages issues submitted in any format (though I prefer electronic!) - please email me at My Email Address so we can work out the details! Specific stuff I need:
  1. Copies or scans of the ORIGINAL 2001 AND EARLIER issues. My copies for these years were obtained electronically, and some are still mixed up (though I got dates for some that were undated - will be updated soon); I'd like to get this corrected.
  2. Issues I am missing! Did George publish any more issues in 2005 or later? I last spoke with George in 2005 and he was in poor health at that time.

Important Note!

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The intent of this archive is to provide access to what I believe is a valuable repository of beekeeping information compiled and documented by George Imirie. Yet as I write this (2013), even the most recent of George Imirie's "Pink Pages" is nearly 10 years old; much has been learned and many things have changed (e.g. CCD, SHB) with regard to beekeeping since George's passing. I still believe much of the information in George's "Pink Pages" is valuable, but I also think it's crucial to read George's recommendations with the added context of current information and knowledge. For example, varoa treatments have changed considerably since 2005 and earlier when George compiled his recommendations.

Please enjoy the information you find here. But please also take the time to expand your beekeeping horizons using current information and literature. Consider subscribing to one of the beekeeping magazines to keep up on the latest research. Join one or more of the numerous beekeeping forums like beesource.com and beemaster.com, and seek out one or more of the excellent beekeeping websites like Michael Bush's fantastic site (my personal favorite). And of course, consider joining your local beekeeping organization, which in the case of the Montgomery County (MD) Beekeeper's Association was the original recipient of George's hard-won wisdom via his "Pink Pages."

Thanks!

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Many thanks to David Winkler, a friend of George Imirie who took the time to send me scans of 18 issues I did not have in my archive. All of these "new" issues have been converted to html and posted on the site.

NEW 2023! Additional thanks to Jacklyn Moore with the Haywood County Beekeepers. Jacklyn reached out some time ago and suggested a MONTHLY index, and even sent me a list of the issues I'd had at the time, arranged by month! It's taken me a few years, but I'm finally thanking her here; without her idea and email, I wouldn't have created the monthly index page!

NEW 2023! And another round of thanks out to Ronald Harris, who helped with pdf conversion many years ago!

About This Project

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When I first stumbled upon copies of George Imirie's Pink Pages online, I knew I'd discovered a valuable source of beekeeping information. Add to that the fact that George's opinions were often quite entertaining, and I knew I'd have to read more.

Unfortunately, there was no single site where I could go to read all of George's Pink Pages newsletters. Even worse, when I found copies scattered across the web, they were always in widely differing formats and often difficult to read, difficult to print, or both. And of course without a single source, there was no alphabetical index that let me quickly find information on a specific topic.

So I started scouring the web for copies of Pink Pages newsletters. George's own site was the source of many of the copies I found, but even George didn't have them all, and while he did have a table of contents, he didn't have an index. I also found issues of Pink Pages on various other sites across the web, in all sorts of different formats. I downloaded every issue I could find and began the painful task of reformatting every one into html so I could present them on this site. By now my goals for this project had become:

I first put up my newly formatted copies of Pink Pages in late 2005, before I'd found all the issues I have now, and before I'd indexed very many issues at all. I indexed when I had time, but typing, reformatting, and indexing was time-consuming and I eventually let it fall by the wayside after indexing only back through 2002. I got back into the indexing job again in late 2006, but didn't finish due to other priorities, and I lost my personal site in 2008 when I cancelled my Comcast subscription.

Fast-forward to December 2009. I have Comcast again, and when I did a recent Google search for some information on George Imirie, my old page came up #1 on the list! Apparently some of you found this information valuable enough to mention it and link to my pages, so (after nearly two full days of html and css cleanup - my original html/css was a MESS!) I've put this content back online.

By now I've put quite a bit of time into this effort, which I hope others find useful; I will do my best to keep this site up and available for as long as I have internet space. Until I decide to purchase a site specifically for this and other beekeeping content, this material will be available here. If you like this site, please send me an email at My Email Address and let me know!

Status of This Project

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NEW 2023! Lots in progress. I'm adding issues and re-categorizing some that were previously undated. Google has removed this site from its index - I'm working on that now and it should be back in Google's database within a few days; until then, the embedded search bar doesn't work. If you run across a problem with any of these pages, please email me at My Email Address with the details and I will do my best to correct the problem as quickly as possible. Indexing continues to be time-consuming, and I do not expect to get back to it any time soon. That said, enough issues have been indexed that most important topics are included in the index at least once. The below is mostly correct - I'll get to it at some point...

Stuff I still have to do:

Notes About Editing

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In formatting these issues, I have made as few edits as possible, with the following general exceptions:
  1. Spelling errors have been corrected
  2. Missing/extra words have been corrected
  3. Formatting hyphens have been removed
  4. Miscellaneous formatting changes have been made (e.g. all caps in a heading changed to a larger, bold font; data reformatted in tabular form)
  5. George's contact information has been removed

About Me

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NEW 2023! My name is Pete Chrisbacher, and I keept bees from 2004 - 2015. Back then, depending on the time of year, I had between 20 and 30 hives and nucs, which were split across three bee yards in Royersford and Kennett Square PA. Nearly all of my colonies were descended from removals and swarm captures I did here in southeast Pennsylvania. My goal was a collection of bees descended from surviving feral stock that I hoped had the genetic diversity and/or resistance needed to tolerate the many diseases, pests and other pressures that plague honeybees here in North America. I managed my bees "my way," though I have been heavily influenced by the management practices and teachings of both Michael Bush and Michael Palmer.

I am also an experienced Agile Coach, and am sometimes available to coach agile organizational transformation and software development engagements through Chrisbacher Consulting LLC.

In case you're wondering why I don't currently keep bees... In 2015 while introducing my girlfriend (now wife) to my hobby, she was stung several times around her waist during an inspection. A short time later she said she didn't feel so good, and went to sit in the truck. When I checked on her a few minutes later, she was feeling worse, so I had her drink an ounce or more of liquid Benadryl (always on hand in my bee bag) and we left for home. When she didn't feel any better during the drive, we headed for the hospital. Long story short, she had a very serious anaphylactic bee sting reaction, and is lucky to have lived. Needless to say, my bee bag now contains epi-pens, and for now, I don't keep bees.

If you have questions or comments about this site or its content, please email me at: My Email Address