BYBA Blog
Knot Yeti
It’s amazing how many people think we have Abominable Snowmen inhabiting the U.S.! I got to say; Not Yeti, but Bigfoots. Yeti are native to Asia mostly in the Himalayan mountains. Perhaps they were brought here by early settlers to work in the forest industry and...
What’s Buzzing at the Bee Yard – June 2022
SWARMS! Earlier this month, Michael and I showed up to do our regular bee yard work and we found a wonderful surprise! A swarm had moved itself into some of our empty equipment. Earlier in the season, we had set some extra equipment on a bench. We didn't want...
Queen Rearing Class – Cycle 2
Join the Backyard Beekeepers in the club’s queen rearing efforts this year! The club has had a queen rearing yard established for 2 years at Randall’s Farm Preserve, an Aspetuck Land Trust property, located in Easton, about 5 minutes away from the BYBA Bee Yard at...
Queen Rearing Class – Cycle 1
Join the Backyard Beekeepers in the club’s queen rearing efforts this year! The club has had a queen rearing yard established for 2 years at Randall’s Farm Preserve, an Aspetuck Land Trust property, located in Easton, about 5 minutes away from the BYBA Bee Yard at...
BYBA Members Open House at the Bee Yard
Last week at the split workshop, we split hive 6. This weekend we will be pulling queen cells and possibly splitting hives 1 and/or 3. Be sure to bring your bee suit. If you'd like some practice lighting a smoker, be sure to bring your smoker too! Saturday, May 21,...
Join Us for our May General Meeting, May 24th at 7:30PM. With Guest Speaker Raina Jain!
About the Speaker Raina believes entrepreneurship and science are powerful ways to make an impact. She is the inventor of HiveGuard, a patented device that works to eliminate varroa mite infestations from honeybee hives, the root cause of Colony Collapse Disorder...
Bee Informed Partnership Survey 2022
The 2021-2022 Annual Loss and Management Survey Live April 1 to April 30th Take the survey here New season, new survey! The Bee Informed Partnership team, in collaboration with the Auburn University Bee Lab, are enthusiastically inviting all U.S. beekeepers to take...
Interview With A Beekeeper – Laura Amodeo and Michael Brokaw, April 2022
T: Greetings and thank you for talking with me! First question, how did you become a beekeeper? L: I was the catalyst for this. I’m a biologist by training and when I started my first lab position after college, my boss, Chris Pargellis, was a beekeeper. He was...
Genetic Dysfunctionality
Characteristics Excluding Africans: Italians - big populations that use a lot of food, good honey production, calm on the comb, fairly gentle, with a tendency to drift and rob Carniolans - one of the gentlest bees, very clean, slows or stops brood rearing in times of...
Interview With A Beekeeper – Patricia Pulliam & Serge Boyce
Interviewees: Patricia Pulliam and Serge Boyce Interviewer: Tammi Worsham March 14, 2022 Tam: Hi. Its nice to meet you both! In person would be better, but maybe that will be possible soon! I’d like to start out with how you both became involved in beekeeping....
Our general membership meetings are held on the last Tuesday of the month at 7:30 PM at the Norfield Church in Weston, CT
