Burgh Bees

Xerces Pollinator Conservation Short Course, Society for Invertebrate Pathology Annual Meeting, and the Eastern Apicultural Society Annual Meeting

sekinger — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 01:08:45 +0000

There will be a Xerces Pollinator Conservation Short Course at Penn State on August 14, the Society for Invertebrate Pathology Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh, PA on August 11-15, and the Eastern Apicultural Society Annual Meeting in West Chester, PA on August 5-9.

For more information on the International Pollinator Conference, please contact the conference organizers, Christina Grozinger (cmg25@psu.edu), Chris Mullin (camullin@psu.edu), and Neal Willliams (nmwilliams@ucdavis.edu). The conference is supported by Penn State’s Center for Pollinator Research, Department of Entomology, College of Agricultural Sciences and the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences. We are also grateful for the generous support of Bayer, BASF, and Ernst Conservation Seeds.

We look forward to seeing you in August!

International Conference on Pollinator Biology, Policy and Health

sekinger — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 01:04:35 +0000

Registration for the 2013 International Conference on Pollinator Biology, Policy and Health is now open! The conference will be held at Penn State from August 14-17, 2013. For more information and to register and submit abstracts, please see:

http://agsci.psu.edu/pollinator-conference

We have an outstanding group of internationally renowned speakers, with sessions including behavioral ecology, physiology and development, host-parasite interactions, ecology and conservation, ecosystems services, and policy. A theme of the conference will be examining and mitigating the effects of environmental contaminants on pollinators.

The deadline for submission of abstracts for oral and poster presentations is May 15, and the early registration deadline is July 1.

Beginning Beekeeping Out yard Demonstration

sekinger — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 00:00:30 +0000

An out yard beekeeping demonstration meeting for new beekeepers is set for Saturday May 4, 2013. The program will be conducted at the Pennsylvania Railroad Supervisors Club about 950 Tevebaugh Hollow Road, Freedom, PA 15042. The time of the meeting will be 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM.

More details are located here.

Beginning Beekeeping Out yard Demonstration

sekinger — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 22:50:05 +0000

More details are located here.

Top Bar Hive Class, March 16 and 17

sekinger — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 18:51:51 +0000

Top Bar Hive Class
Interest in Top Bar hives has grown in the last several years and there are a few folks out there who keep them in the Pittsburgh area. It’s not a common beekeeping practice, but Burgh Bees has joined with Gold Star Honeybees of Maine to put on this one time event to allow some insight of the pros and cons of top bar beekeeping and how to manage them so that you can succeed. This class will be offered with limited spaces. These classes draw folks from several states so don’t wait to register!

Class Details:
When: March 16 and 17, 2013. 8:30am to 4:00pm with an hour lunch at noon.
Where: Penn State Extension of Allegheny County. 400 Lexington Street – 3rd floor, Pittsburgh.

Early bees catch the buzz, and save $25 off the $175 tuition. Early registration until March 1st.

You can register here: Top Bar Class Registration

Beekeeping 102 on March 9th, 2013

sekinger — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 18:10:49 +0000

This classroom-based course offers new beekeepers detailed information on what to expect the second year of beekeeping. The course will include: an overview of seasonal management issues, with strong focus on swarm management. The goal is for students to learn how to maximize hive health and productivity.

Much more information can be found here: Course Info

2013 Western Pennsylvania Beekeeping Seminar

sekinger — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 01:23:58 +0000

The Western Pennsylvania Beekeeping Seminar will be conducted Friday evening February 15 and Saturday February 16 at the Four Points Sheraton, Mars (Cranberry Township), PA. Featured speakers will be Dr. James Tew, Alabama and Ohio extension bee specialist, Dr. Larry Connor, author, Jennifer Berry, University of Georgia, Honeybee research and Doug Oster, TV host, writer. Presentations will, include, Bee Behaviors, Nosema, Swarm management, Drones, Making Splits, Disease and Pest Control, Queen Rearing, IPM in Pollinator Friendly Gardens, Cooking with Honey and much more. Special sessions for new and beginning beekeepers will be conducted. The registration is $50, and $30 for spouses. For registration information contact or call 724-774-3003 or 724-544-2900

Burghs Bees in Bee Culture Magazine

sekinger — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 19:24:24 +0000

Click here to read the full article from Bee Culture on our community apiary written by our very own Stephen Repasky.

Upcoming Talk – “Apiforestation, the Future of Beekeeping” with Tammy Horn

Josh Kucharski — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 04:21:38 +0000

Topic: “Apiforestation, the Future of Beekeeping”

Speaker: Tammy Horn

Time: Friday, September 28th @ 7PM
(Doors will open at 6:30 PM for mingling)

NOTE: Following the talk, Tammy will be signing copies of her books and there will be a tea and honey tasting for all to enjoy!

Location: The Big Idea Cooperative Bookstore & Cafe
4812 Liberty Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15224

EVENT IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Biography:
Dr. Tammy Horn graduated with a B.A. in English from Berea College in 1990. In 1997, she finished her doctorate at the University of Alabama in 1997 in Twentieth Century Modernism. This same year, she volunteered to assist her grandfather in his apiaries. The real education began. So, while teaching in English and Appalachian Studies departments in Alabama and Kentucky, she wrote Bees in America: How the Honey Bee Shaped a Nation (University Press of KY 2005). She was a perfectly horrible beekeeper during this time.

Then, while teaching at Berea College, she was named NEH Chair of Appalachian Studies in 2006. Horn started a small honey bee monitoring project on coal mine sites. She also traveled to South Africa and Hawaii to intern with Big Island Queens. This time in the field was a first-rate education into industrial extraction and industrial queen production. Horn began to formulate a way to reclaim with pollinator habitat on mine sites in an effort to set up industrial beekeeping in eastern Kentucky.

In 2007, Horn traveled to Australia, specifically to study surface mining laws at Peabody Mine Sites, in MacKay, Queensland. In 2008, Horn started developing beekeeping-related reforestation methods on reclaimed mine sites at the Eastern Kentucky University. Her second book Beeconomy: What Women and Bees can teach us about Local Trade and Global Markets profiles international women beekeepers. Her third book Apiforestation: The Future of Beekeeping will complete a trilogy of bee awareness. In the meantime, Horn has lobbied successfully for the Pollinator Habitat Bill, which passed without opposition in 2010. The North American Pollinator Protection Campaign awarded her the 2010 Pollinator Advocate Award.

For more information about this lecture, please contact Burgh Bees at info@burghbees.com.

Burgh Bees Beekeeping in the Classroom 101 January 15th, 17th, & 22nd

sekinger — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 17:21:19 +0000

This is a three night class to be held on: Tuesday, January 15th, Thursday January 17th and Tuesday January 22nd from 6:00 pm to 9:30 pm. Your registration is for all three nights. Space is limited, please register early.

This classroom-based course offers beginning beekeepers an introduction to honey bee biology and basic approaches to beekeeping. The course will include: an overview of honey bee castes and races, a discussion of bee biology in order to understand the challenges facing honey bees, and an overview of the basic equipment necessary for successful beekeeping. The goal is for students to learn how to keep bees for the first year. For more information, email info@BurghBees.com

Instructors: Steve Repasky, Master Beekeeper and Burgh Bees Vice President Joseph Zgurzynski, Master Beekeeper and Burgh Bees President

Course information and registration can be found here: Beekeeping 101.