

In March our Guest was Aladin Borioli. He discussed his work with Apian the Ministry of Bees. It was a fascinating talk that covered several aspects of his work.
We were fortunate enough to get Dr. Phil Lester from New Zealand for our March Meeting speaker. A next-generation biopesticide for Varroa management: gene silencing and the use of dsRNA with Dr. Phil Lester. Varroa destructor is a global pest that has developed resistance to synthetic pesticides. In this talk, I’ll discuss a novel, next-generation…
In February local removal expert Ty Kelius shared his business and current work with us. It was an impressive show and well worth your time. Removals need to be done carefully and with a detailed understanding of the structure you’re removing from. Ty combines a love of beekeeping with a family legacy of contracting to…

Austin Martin discussed political ecology and his research on urban bee populations, challenging the luxury effect hypothesis, which suggests affluent areas boost insect diversity. His findings indicated greater bee diversity in neglected urban landscapes near affluent ones, contradicting earlier predictions. The event included pizza from Founded, and a video of his presentation is available to…

Eric Malcolm gave a master class on hive inspection this month at our virtual monthly meeting on August 15. Dang it! It looks like you’ve been bushwacked! This content is for members only. If you are a member and you’ve logged in before Click Here to go to the Login page. If you’re pretty sure…

We had a couple of wonderful speakers in May with Mark Antunes discussing the trials and tribulations of building a honey house and Keith Jardine updating us on his rolling Demaree method. Dang it! It looks like you’ve been bushwacked! This content is for members only. If you are a member and you’ve logged in…

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 of excellent questions and commentary from the Guild community. Dang it! It looks like you’ve been bushwacked! This content is for members only. If you…

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Doug Tallamy of the University of Delaware joined us to offer an inspiring talk about how we can each, on a small scale but with a large cumulative impact, help support the little things that we all depend on. We did not do any door prizes this month and unfortunately, we forgot to bring the…

Selina Bruckner of the Lopez Uribe Lab spoke to our group on 8/17. She presented the data developed by Robyn Underwood and others evaluating three somewhat typical approaches to keeping bees. This excellent research identified distinct families of beekeeping practice that can be evaluated based on measurable outcomes. Organic management, which I would say is…