Held earlier this month, our "Beekeeping Mid-year Maintenance" class continued the recent GBA two-part series to support experienced and brand new beekeepers succeed in our communities. The online portion focused on sharing insights and tips on growing your hive including nutritional requirements and how to protect your bees in our setting. We can't speak enough … Continue reading GBA class to help your hives thrive
Preparing your hive for honey
In our current online education series, we have covered a series of topics important for the hobby beekeeper. This evening, our Education Committee Directors and Master Beekeepers, Sara Cutrignelli and Arthur Kubogamell, feature in a special video presentation created especially for GBA by Jamie Haskell: How do you know when your hive is ready to … Continue reading Preparing your hive for honey
What’s in My Pollen – Dr. Kirsten Traynor
We were honoured to have Dr. Kirsten Traynor jump on a middle-of-her-night call with us this month and share her insights. Dr. Traynor investigates honey bee health and how pesticides impact social behavior. She is the Director of the Institute of Bee Research in Celle, Germany. In 2020, she launched a new quarterly magazine 2 … Continue reading What’s in My Pollen – Dr. Kirsten Traynor
How’s your hive?
In our current online education series, we have covered a series of topics important for the hobby beekeeper. This evening, our Education Committee Directors and Master Beekeepers, Sara Cutrignelli and Arthur Kubogamell, asked new beekeepers what has been happening in their hives since the nucs or bee packages were installed, and also what to expect … Continue reading How’s your hive?
Treatment-free Varroa Control – Ross Conrad
Ross Conrad learned his craft from the late Charles Mraz, world renowned beekeeper and founder of Champlain Valley Apiaries in Vermont. Conrad is a former president of the Vermont Beekeeper's Association, a regular contributor to Bee Culture - The Magazine of American Beekeeping, author of 'Natural Beekeeping: Organic Approaches To Modern Apiculture' published by Chelsea … Continue reading Treatment-free Varroa Control – Ross Conrad
Our Beekeeping for Beginners Class
Master Beekeepers and GBA members - Sara Cutrignelli (UC Davis) and Arthur Kubogamell (Cornell) - helped design our new, two-part seminar for beginner and curious beekeepers to find out what they need to get started. The first part of the program was delivered via Zoom to go over the nuts and bolts, and to prepare … Continue reading Our Beekeeping for Beginners Class
The Game of Drones – Julia Mahood
Our entertaining guest speaker in March spoke about her passion for drones and drones and how she came to create her DCA map project. Master Beekeeper, Julia Mahood, has been keeping bees since 2004 at her home in Atlanta, Georgia, and has long been fascinated by the secret life of drones. After frustrating failures to … Continue reading The Game of Drones – Julia Mahood
Rain doesn’t deter the San Martin 4-H meeting
Our local 4-H junior beekeepers were so happy to get together in person after all this time, they weren't going to let the weather prevent them from having a great meeting! In the words of their 4-H adult sponsor and Gilroy Beekeepers Association member, Sara Cutrignelli: "Today our project was finally able to meet in … Continue reading Rain doesn’t deter the San Martin 4-H meeting
A discussion of re-queening and splitting of hives
In our current online education series, we have covered a series of topics important for the hobby beekeeper. This evening, our Education Committee team, Sara Cutrignelli and Arthur Kubogamell, discussed the merits of re-queening or splitting hives and so much more. Members are invited to attend the Zoom meetings. The video presentation is available for … Continue reading A discussion of re-queening and splitting of hives
Re-queening the Hive – Zac Lamas
Our guest speaker in February was Zac Lamas, a PhD student in the Hawthorne Lab at the University of Maryland, where he studies varroa feeding behavior and how pesticides affect honey bee queens. His current work uncovered how varroa are actively feeding and switching from one adult bee host to another. Zac also created a … Continue reading Re-queening the Hive – Zac Lamas