Category: Guild
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TR7 – Guggenheim Fellow
The Bee Guild does have a favorite artist in Philadelphia and that artist is Taji Ra’oof Nahl. Taji discovered us at the Wyck Rose Festival some years back and we’ve been collaborating ever since. WELL! Taji has been named a Guggenheim Fellow for 2024 along with a constellation of other bright stars. Here’s a bit…
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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 will have a dialog with Autumn Blalock the Azuka’s Dramaturge after the performance. Azuka has a pay what you can model. Please purchase your tickets…
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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 inner cover and on the frames headed for deeper darker places in the hive. Fast moving larvae were wiggling in and out of cells on…
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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 offer workshops in more advanced topics, and those will be announced as we develop them. Stay tuned to this page as we update it with…
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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 we do this time of year. Our by-laws specify an election every year for every member of the board. In practical terms no one has…
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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 a certified honey kitchen? Perhaps you would like to bottle it there too? If you agree strongly with all of those statements then you may…
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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 Day Philadelphia morning show. Eric, Aleicia and Dave showed up to talk with them and show them around a colony and discuss some of the…
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More and better barriers
This weekend the Apiary Committee put in posts for our new barrier between the apiary and the road. You can see the apiary on the left side of the image. The road runs down the right side but is not visible here. When ‘activated’ the posts will have largish fabric panels suspended between them, plus…
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What about these new memberships?
So you may have noticed that our membership options have changed a little. Yes. Yes they have. We’ve written a few e-mails about this but essentially we need to update our membership options to keep up with increased expenses and to expand our programs. Right now – the first few weeks in April – the…
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Focus on Charles Henry Turner
Early pioneer in the field of insect behavior Charles Henry Turner (1867-1923): Charles Henry Turner trained as a zoologist and did groundbreaking work in the fields of entomology and comparative psychology, publishing over 70 papers and working for equality in the sciences. He devised many brilliant experiments furthering our understanding of the natural world –…