Kim Skyrm | Honey Bee Health Update from MA Beekeepers

Kim Skyrm, the Chief Apiary Inspector will be talking to our BABA members! Join the Chief Apiary Inspector, Kim Skyrm, as he shares a summary of the 2021 Apiary Program highlights, inspection data, and trends in the honey bee health for the Commonwealth.

Rich Morris | BroodMinder – Hive Monitoring Devices

Please join us for a presentation from BroodMinder about the state of the art in Electronic Beehive Monitoring. The team at BroodMinder has shipped over 24,000 devices since 2017 and has learned a number of lessons during that time. Rich Morris will share those lessons and will discuss how we observe a growing number of […]

Heather Mattila | Honey Bee Nutrition

More information on this presentation to follow. To register, please email president@bostonbeekeepers.org. Presentations are free to all BABA members, and $5 to non-members.

Jamie Ellis | Queen Related Issues

ECBA and BABA are hosting Jamie Ellis for a zoom presentation to talk about queen related issues. If you want to register, please email president@bostonbeekeepers.org. Free to BABA members, $5 fee to non-members.

Tour at The Colony in Tyngsboro, MA

BABA members will get an exclusive tour through The Colony's meadery and Rick will talk about his his experience on commercial beekeeping.https://thecolonyma.com/ This event is for BABA members only, to register please email president@bostonbeekeepers.org You can become a member here: https://www.bostonbeekeepers.org/members/

Julia Mahood | Game of Drones – Drone Congregation Areas

Julia Mahood is a Georgia Master Beekeeper who has been keeping bees since 2004. She created the citizen science website MapMyDca.com to gather data on drone congregation areas. Julia was awarded the Georgia Beekeeper of the year in 2018. A graphic artist, she designed the Georgia "Save the honey bee" license plate. She is passionate […]

Colin McCallum-Cook | Planting for Pollinators: Bee-friendly Gardening in the Northeast

Colin McCallum-Cook is a horticulturalist at the Arnold Arboretum, where he cares for the oak, viburnum, juniper, hornbeam, mountain laurel, and corkwood collections. He is also responsible for managing some of the Arboretum’s wilder, naturalized landscapes such as Bussey Brook, the Rockery, and the Hunnewell Meadow.Colin has a long experience in stewarding natural and anthropogenic […]

Tom Sullivan | Native Bees & How to Provide Them With the Ideal Habitat

Tom Sullivan, Masters of Arts in Landscape DesignA life long student of nature and lover of honey and honeybees from an early age, Tom took a winding path to unearth his passion. He has organized community gardens, led teens on wild food hikes, worked on vegetable farms; was an intern at The Rural Education Center […]

Jean Miller | Hive Inspections, When Things Go Wrong!

What to look for outside the hive, at entrance and in the hive during an inspection.Presentation addresses the following: Bears, Raccoons, Skunks Robbing Swarming Bad Temperament Disease Queen right (or not) Evaluating Resources (Nectar/Pollen/Brood) Small Hive Beetle, Wax Moths and (the dreaded) Varroa Mite… and so much more! Jean Miller Beekeeper since 2014. Cornell University […]

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