Events and Calendar

Club meetings

We meet the second Thursday (6:30 PM) of each month (details and directions in the calendar below). Our typical meeting agenda is:

We meet in the building at the back pictured to the right a Coleman Nursery.

Here is our near term schedule of speakers:

April 14 - Keith Tignor, State Apiarist Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS)
May 12 - Judith Alberts, VCE Master Gardener Topic: If You Plant It, They Will Come – Gardening for Our Pollinators
June 9 - Roger Schürch, Research Assistant Professor of Social Insect Ecology and Evolution Topic: TBA

Month	Beekeeping Task	Education Moment Topic	Guest Speaker
January	Value	Value
February	Spring Preparations Hive Checks	When and How to Check your Hives Spring Hive Inspections	To be announced
March	Spring Feeding Hive Inspections	Spring Feeding and Feeders	Lisa Horth, PhD, Professor of Biology Old Dominion University Tentative Topic: Benefits of Mason Bees and what can we learn from them OR honey bee disease data for Pungo
April	Brood Management, Hive Management Nectar Flow and Supering	Comb Building & Management	Keith Tignor, State Apiarist Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS) Topic: Brood and hive management; BeeCheck Program
May	Swarm Management/Splits Swarm Recovery Swarm Traps Queen Rearing	What is a Swarm? Swarm Cells, Emergency Cells and Supercedure Cells	To be announced
June	Bees and Comb Building	Local Bee Ordnances and State Laws	To be announced
July	Honey Harvesting Extraction/Bottling & Label	How to check Honey Moisture Content	To be announced
August	Integrated Pest Management Techniques Mite Count and Treatment Making Winter Bees.	Integrated Pest Management and Mites	To be announced
September	Preparing for Winter Feeders Sugar Mixes 1:1 vs 2:1 etc.	Winter Feeding methods	To be announced
October	Winterizing the Hive Mice and other Pests	Winterizing the Hive Mice and other Pests	To be announced
November	Winter Colony Behavior Brood Breaks and Mite Treatments Hive evaluations for Winter Stores etc.	What I learned this past Year	To be announced
December	Winter Break		To be announced