Tag: bees
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Honey Fest and Chestnut Hill Fall for the Arts Fest – Our best sales days yet!
On Sunday Sept 15th, we put up our yellow tent on Germantown Avenue and spent the day talking about honey bees and showing off the girls in their observation hive. Our volunteers (which could be you next!) had the chance to share tastes of our honey with festival attendees. The variations in honey flavor profiles…
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Honey Fest This Saturday and Bee Chat Tonight
That’s right, the best Saturday of the year is upon us! We’ll be celebrating bees and all things honey, from mead to candles to the raw local good stuff directly from our beekeepers. Join us for Honey Fest – A Philadelphia Beekeepers Guild Tradition at Wyck House on Germantown Avenue from 10 to 4. If…
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Breaking into beehive medicine
Check out our favorite Vice President Dr. Katie Krebs who is making quite a name for herself in Veterinary circles. This is a link to an excellent article about Katie on the web site of the American Veterinary Medical Association.
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Here comes Beryl
The weather has turned brutal, but relief is coming with Hurricane Beryl. Thank you AI overlord for your summary.
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Whatta you know? A nice day for a change
Philadelphia beekeepers are gearing up for honey harvesting season, with concerns about colony health and nectar flow timing. Picnic and Honey Kitchen on July 14th! Additionally, a plea for participation in the PA honey bee colony winter loss survey. Read about the Penn State Drone Workshop, and don’t forget the State Beeks Picnic on July…
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Pennsylvania Beekeepers Arise and Unite!
The 2023-2024 US Beekeeping Survey is Live! Go to: https://aub.ie/colonysurvey Apparently a courageous three dozen or so beekeepers from PA have stepped up to their duty to provide DATA. We must all join these few, proud, committed bee heroes and provide our DATA as well! Onward to the pure land where even more than one third…
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Please Lobby for Reality Based Beekeeping Miticide Regulation
The Guild is sharing this request from Charles Lindner, Randy Oliver, and others for a change to the Federal legislation that regulates what we can use as miticides in our hives. The regulations are far behind and sometimes contradict current approaches and need to be updated to accommodate current and future practices. Please read and…
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Don’t Miss the 2024 CCBA Conference – Saturday, March 9th
The 2024 Chester County Beekeepers Association (CCBA) Annual Virtual Conference is set for Saturday, March 9th, from 8am to 5pm. The Chester County Beekeepers Association has lined up more than 20 distinguished speakers, including Tom Seeley, Randy Oliver, and Dewey Caron, to present on topics including honey bee biology, apiary management, and honey production. Top…
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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 from March to late May (~12 weeks). Your honey bee pollen will help us understand the role of tree pollen in providing early spring honey…
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October 2023 General Meeting featuring Doug Tallamy and the Little Things
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…