BYBA Blog
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....
Mite Bee Management
When the theories of atoms started, the thought of comparing the smallest parts of matter to the biggest seemed strange! But here we are - nucleus, sun and orbiting planets, electrons. I say let’s look at the management of bees. We'll look at one of the biggest...
What’s Buzzing at the Bee Yard
Today, looking inside, we were pleased to learn that while we have lost a few colonies, several colonies are alive and thriving. The most important thing I learned today was that winter bees do not have the same disposition as fall bees. If any of you have ever seen...
Interview with a Beekeeper – BYBA President, Ben Haase
Interview by Tammi Worsham TW(Tammi Worsham): Hi, Ben! How’s it going? Is this a good time? BH(Ben Haase): Yes, my wife and I are just pulling into the driveway, so you may hear some background noise, but now’s fine! TW: Great. I’ll just jump right in, then! ...
Words From Our President – January 2022
Happy New Year Back Yard Beekeepers! I hope you, your families, and your hives had a wonderful holiday season. 2022 is in full swing and the Back Yard Beekeepers Association is ramping up for another year of education and tending to honeybees. At the end of last year,...
The Porch
Growing up in a beach neighborhood, all the cottages and houses had porches. The place to gather as a family or with neighbors - the “social media” of the day! Most of the houses were built before the 1920’s and had gas heat and lights, no electricity, and no AC....
Bee School 2022, Register Today!
Registration is now open for the BYBA Bee School, which will be held Mondays, January 10, 17, 24, and 31, 7-9 p.m. We’ll be offering the class in-person for a limited number of attendees, and also via Zoom. This will allow us to maintain social...
Our general membership meetings are held on the last Tuesday of the month at 7:30 PM at the Norfield Church in Weston, CT
