Learn how to FIGHT THE MITE! This full-day, interactive workshop, co-hosted by the MDAR Apiary Team and UMass Extension, will leave you prepared to control Varroa in your hives. It will include: --Vital information on VARROA LIFE HISTORY AND BIOLOGY --INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT (IPM) basics, considerations for Varroa mites and opportunity to create your own IPM plan --Introduction to […]
Spend time with a beekeeper in the Boston Area Beekeepers Association's apiary (bee yard) at MassAudubon's beautiful Boston Nature Center. Visitors will don beekeeper jackets and hoods, and work right alongside the beekeeper as they open their hive, look for honey, young developing bees, and a healthy queen. You will learn basic beekeeping techniques for […]
Spend time with a beekeeper in the Boston Area Beekeepers Association's apiary (bee yard) at MassAudubon's beautiful Boston Nature Center. Visitors will don beekeeper jackets and hoods, and work right alongside the beekeeper as they open their hive, look for honey, young developing bees, and a healthy queen. You will learn basic beekeeping techniques for […]
Join us for a club meeting where we will discuss beekeeping issues that may be currently affecting you as a local beekeeper, new club events, updates on our club apiaries and the occasional guest speaker. Members attend club meetings for free, for more information see our membership page here.
Year: 2019Genre: Documentary - Environmental Classification: Check the classification Producer: Sally Roy, Peter Nelson and Michael Reuter Director: Peter Nelson Thousands of semi-trailers crisscross the country in the dead of night delivering goods through the darkness to stores, warehouses and factories nationwide. But some of them carry an unsuspected and highly unusual cargo. Honey bees. […]
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MEETING IS CANCELLEDSORRY FOR THE LATE NOTICE - JOIN US FOR OUR NEXT ONE Join us for a club meeting where we will discuss beekeeping issues that may be currently affecting you as a local beekeeper, new club events, updates on our club apiaries and the occasional guest speaker. Members attend club meetings for free, […]
Zoom Meet Up - email president@bostonbeekeepers.org by Thursday noon for confirmation email with login code. $5.00 fee for non-members.
BABA & The Trustees present THE SECRET LIVES OF BEES, a lecture by Nick Dorian, native bee expert and Tufts PhD candidate. You’ve probably heard the saying “Save the bees!” as news reports of global insect declines flood the media. But do you know which bees need saving? Over 4000 species of bees inhabit North […]
In this speedy workshop (30 min to one hour), you will learn several ways to make a very simple mason bee house, where and how to hang it, and the ideal time of year to watch these industrious bees as they come and go. Mason bees are extraordinary pollinators, even more efficient than honey bees, […]
It's a party!... kind of. Someday soon we'll all be able to hang out together (!) but, until then, Zoom over to the online social, see some familiar friends and meet new ones, and bring some fun beekeeping stories and a few of those nagging questions we all have. We're scheduled to end at 7:30 […]