Category: Public
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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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Honey Fest Sales Trends
We need your honey! The signup form is here You need to be a paying member of the Guild to sell honey, but we’re pretty sure you’ll make more than your money back if you do. Last year our 13 vendors sold an average of 18 @ 1 pound jars of honey, and 28 @…
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Piping
There’s an interesting discussion on Bee-L about piping (if you don’t know Bee-L you should check it out). In 1964 Harald Esch wrote the following: Harald Esch, 1964: Novices that follow the dancing bees can stop the dancers by eliciting a “Piep-Laut” (piping). A dancer which has already been accepted is attacked if it doesn’t…
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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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Say hello to the new extractor
In this archival video the Guild’s friendly president, Dave Harrod, gets Elliott and Aleicia to talk about the new extractor. As we mention in the video it’s an 18 frame Mann Lake Extractor. It will do any size frame. We’ve also recently gotten a Simple Harmony Farms uncapper which makes an appearance but is not…
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2023 Bee a Hero Grant from Planet Bee and Farnell
Our friends at Planet Bee are partnering with Farnell to offer grant opportunity this year. Farnell are the folks who make the Raspberry Pi computer. Grant EligibilityThis grant opportunity is available to individual beekeepers and community organizations that strive to improve their environment, build community, focus on the areas of science, technology, engineering, and math…
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Please, please fill out the winter loss survey
The Penn State Center for Pollinator Research is now administering the annual winter loss survey for Pennsylvania Beekeepers. As you know, this data is tremendously helpful in assessing drivers of winter colony loss in Pennsylvania and we’re grateful for all the beekeepers who have contributed their data over the years. We are trying to help disseminate this…
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Fire Risk – Beekeepers be careful with your smoker!
It hasn’t really rained in Philadelphia in over a month. Stuff is drying out. New Jersey is on fire. So, be careful with your smoker folks! You should have some water with you every time you go out to put the smoker out. We don’t want to start any fires. It’s late and I’m having…