Givin' a durn about bees since 2009
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Trap Pollen for fun and science!
There’s some urgency to this opportunity. The Center for Pollinator Research at Penn State is seeking beekeeper volunteers in southeast and southwest Pennsylvania to provide weekly samples of pollen trapping
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Let’s Overwinter Together
Join us at the Azuka Theater on Saturday March 9 at 7pm for a performance of Overwinter by Mackenzie Raine Kirkman. We’ll attend as a group and some of us
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Small Hive Beetles (Aethina tumida): What’s in (and around) your hive?
A few years ago, when I opened a hive for inspection, I was greeted by slimy, smelly honey and brood frames. Adult small hive beetles (SHBs) were scurrying across the
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Conceptos básicos de Apicultura
Penn State Extension is offering a basic bee keeping class is Spanish!
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Robyn Underwood – November Monthly Meeting
Well it took me long enough to post, but here’s the recording of our November Meeting featuring Robyn Underwood. Robyn covers bee anatomy in great detail. As usual there’s lots
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2024 Guild Classes & Workshops
This year we’re offering our classic Introduction to Beekeeping class as well as an ongoing class for folks who are starting or continuing their Beekeeping Journey. We also plan to
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Oxalic Acid in the crisp autumn breeze
Oxalic acid can be a very effective mite treatment during the winter brood break. Oxalic is a relatively well tolerated treatment and when the mites are all outside of capped
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It’s that time again – 2024 Board Selection
These are just a few of the fun things you can do and fun people who have done them before and served on the Board. And Board selection is something
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Extra Extraction?
Are you a member of the Philadelphia Beekeepers Guild at the Hobbyist or Beekeeper level? Do you have some honey to extract? Would you like to extract your honey in
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We were on the morning show!
It was a beautiful Tuesday morning in the bee yard (or apiary) when Drew and Jared from Fox29 met us to have a look at the bees for the Good