For the past two beekeeping seasons, the presence of the Spotted Lanternfly (Lycorma delicatula) has rapidly increased in the greater Pittsburgh area, affecting our local beekeeping community in a number of ways. Join Burgh Bees Director and Certified Master Beekeeper Christina Neumann at Hop Farm in Lawrenceville, for an open discussion on SLF’s impact, from both horticultural and apicultural perspectives. At the event, we’ll be organizing a honey swap, so we can begin to compare tasting notes for this unique new honey profile in our region. Bring a 1-1.5 ounce jar of your fall reserves to included in the profile. Topic: Spotted Lanternfly in the Burgh Beer & Everything Bees Location: Hop Farm Brewery 5601 Butler St., Pittsburgh, PA 15201 Date/Time: November 14, 2022, 7-8:30 pm

Burgh Bees was recently select as one of the 2017 Peck Family Foundation gift recipients. We recently had the pleasure to meet Josh Bailey a family member, who recently relocated to the Pittsburgh area to pursue a opportunity in the real estate industry. Josh became very interested in Burgh Bees mission, our educational outreach, and community events and decided to sit down with the board in July to talk about the future of our organization and how the Peck Foundation might support Beekeepers in the local Pittsburgh area. At the Annual Peck Foundation Yearly Meeting in Seattle WA this August, Josh made a formal presentation on Burg Bees our accomplishments and his interest in having the Peck Foundation support our organization in future expansion projects, specifically the Brookline Apiary. Josh requested a $2,000.00 donation and was granted a $2,900.00 contribution from the Foundation. We appreciate the support of Josh, the Peck Family and The Foundation for its generous support of our organization and future development of the Brookline Community Apiary. The Peck Family Foundation is the legacy of Norton L. and Barbara B. Peck. The Foundation web site is The Peck Family Foundation

In cooperation with the PA Queen Improvement Project and Burgh Bees, a field day has been planned that will provide an outstanding educational opportunity and daughter queens reared from instrumentally inseminated queens of Purdue improved genetic stock (AKA: Leg Chewers). This event is limited to 50 participants as we expect a large number of interested beekeepers. Due to the anticipated interest in this event, we are requesting that you complete a simple questionnaire that will help us select participants with the best potential to overwinter the queens, propagate the genetics, and meet the overall goals of the PA Queen Improvement Project. We do not want to discourage anyone with interest from applying, so please apply if you are interested! While there are challenges in raising new genetics and propagating these queens, the field day will provide training to increase everyone’s chance of success. The plan for the field day is for participants to bring one or two 5 frame nucs to the field day, participate in educational sessions, and install the virgin queens. The nucs will remain on site surrounded by apiaries with known quality genetics for the virgin queens to be mated. When the queens are mated and laying, participants will be scheduled to pick up the nucs. Prior to the field day, there will be a workshop on creating strong queenless nucs to ensure that participants show up at the field day with nucs ready to accept virgin queens. Schedule: Creating Queenless Nucs Workshop: 25 June; 10 AM – 12 PM Queen Improvement Field Day: 8 July; 8 AM – 5 PM Nuc Pick Up: Weekend of 29 July (scheduled as queens start laying) Program: The 50 participants will attend a few sessions

Would you like to learn more about honeybees and beekeeping?  Are you curious about seeing the inside of a beehive?  Then come to our monthly Open Apiary.  You will be given a guided tour of the inside of a beehive by an actual beekeeper. Our apiary tours are held at our Community Apiary in the Homewood Neighborhood of Pittsburgh. 6933 Susquehanna St., Pittsburgh, 15208 Protective head gear will be provided.  Please wear or bring long a long sleeved shirt, preferably with a collar, and long pants (no Capris or shorts please!)  Also, closed toed shoes such as sneakers are recommended.  Honeybees are gentle but we want to keep as covered up as possible. A donation of $10 per person is appreciated. Open Apiaries are limited to 15 people so please register early.  RSVP by email to Kyle Pattison (kyle@burghbees.com) by 5pm on the Friday before the scheduled Open Apiary. The tentative schedule is below.  Actual dates will be determined by weather and will be posted in the events section on our website.  Events will start at 11:00am (gates close at 11:15am - no late arrivals are permitted. Please allow 2 hours for the event. Sunday May 21 Saturday June 17 Sunday July 23 Saturday Aug 19 Sunday Sept 17 We have also partnered with Penn State's Master Gardener Program.  We will have students from the Master Gardener program on hand to discuss pollination and pollinator friendly gardens.