For the past 18 years, Jennifer Berry has been the Apicultural Research Professional and Lab Manager for the University of Georgia Honey Bee Program. She has discovered a love of pollinator plants for gardens and will share them with us!
Harold Lanier is a Georgia Journeyman Beekeeper and a member of our club. He operates Lanier Bee Barn right up in Commerce GA, where he teaches hands-on classes in beekeeping as well as offering equipment, packages and nucs for sale. Tonight he’ll be speaking to us about beekeeping equipment.
Georgia master Beekeeper, Brutz English, will discuss First Quarter Management of your hives. This is a critical time for honey bees in our climate.
This is a late posting. We had Tom Seeley discussing Bait hives (swarm traps). We met in person and he was on the big screen.
Hives on The Move!
Learn how to prepare hives, move them up to the mountains for Sourwood Honey and extract it.
Mary Lacksen is a UGA Journeyman Beekeeper. BeeCo Apiaries is a sideline bee business with a focus on nucleus hives and queen production. The hives are located in Hancock County Georgia and in late June move to North Carolina for the sourwood flow.
Our goal is to raise healthy bees. Since 2012, I have been involved with the Lake Country Beekeepers Association and manage the observation hive at the Sparta-Hancock County Library. My mentor, Bruce Morgan used to call me a ‘bee-haver”, but now calls me a beekeeper. Teaching, learning and working with other beekeepers is all part of this beekeeping journey. I am honored to be asked to talk with your group.
Who-sa-zygous-what-zis?
Join Olivia Menard for a memorable review of honey bee biology. Why do honey bees make honey? How do bees regulate nest temperature? What, exactly, do bees “do” with all those different glands? We will explore these questions and more in this presentation.
Olivia Menard is a UGA Journeyman Beekeeper in Lawrenceville, GA, and the beekeeper for Hurricane Hives at Monroe Area High School. An Aerospace Engineer by trade, Olivia began keeping bees to help her garden and practice mindfulness. Today she shares the craft of beekeeping with others through mentoring, pollination consulting, and program development.
Master Beekeeper Brutz English will discuss training and certification for honey bee removal from structures. This will be viz Zoom. Club members will receive this link via email.
This meeting will be virtual. Members have been emailed the Zoom link.
Our Native Bees (And Why Beekeepers Should Care)
Public awareness and concern for native bees is soaring. But with no honey crop to harvest, why should Georgia beekeepers care about the almost 500 species of native bees that call our state home? This fully illustrated talk will explain why native bees are essential, touching on the eco-system services they provide, basic identification, and their interactions with honey bees.
Peter Helfrich is a hobbyist honey beekeeper and native bee enthusiast who lives in Decatur, GA, where he chairs the city’s Bee City USA committee (a.k.a., “Beecatur”). He holds Certified and Journeyman Beekeeper certifications through UGA’s Master Beekeeper program and serves as a director with the Metro Atlanta Beekeepers Association, and newsletter editor for the Georgia Beekeepers Association. He frequently speaks about bees and other pollinators in schools and at community events.
Our regularly scheduled meeting for August is canceled. We hope to have an in-person hive inspection for beginners on the 21st; National Honey Bee Day.
Woohoo! We have a date to begin meeting in person at our new location! It’s at the brand new Athens-Clarke County Extension Office. It’s just off the Loop and there’s plenty of parking right by the building.
We’re thrilled to have Dr Keith Delaplane scheduled to speak with us about honey bees. We’ll also have door prizes and more!
We hope to see you there! 7pm Directions
