BYBA Blog
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...
Our general membership meetings are held on the last Tuesday of the month at 7:30 PM at the Norfield Church in Weston, CT
