The Alameda County Beekeepers Association has a booth near the Safeway Barn at the Alameda County Fair, including a live bee display. Can you find the queen? Join us!
If you’re a member of the club, we need you to volunteer!
Join us for our in-person monthly meeting! Our speaker will be David Teckam, speaking about home brewing quality mead (an ancient alcoholic beverage made by fermenting honey with water).
David is an avid homebrewer of beer and mead who has been tasting and judging the brews of Californians for decades. He’s a former professional brewer (Sacramento Brewing), as well as a former Beer Judge Certification Program Western regional representative.
Join Sung Lee for a free hive inspection demonstration at the club apiary!
We'll go over what to look for as part of an inspection, and what to do next. Beginners are welcome: if you're new to beekeeping, you'll have a chance to get hands-on experience with bees. All we ask is that you join the club if you haven't already.
Sung Lee is Alameda County’s famous Bee Charmer, with over 80 hives he inspects every week.
Our speaker will be Dr. David Tarpy, Professor and Apiculture Extension Specialist at North Carolina State University. The topic will be Making good queens and avoiding bad ones.
Jennie Durant is a writer and researcher focused on bees, agriculture, and the environment. She has spent more than a decade working with beekeepers, scientists, and policymakers, including time at the USDA and the University of California in Berkeley and Davis. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, LitHub, Live Science, Grist, The Huffington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, and The Conversation.
Boris says “We have studied social insect reproduction for several decades, and every time we look more closely, we uncover something new— from sperm competition and the remarkable long-term sperm storage of queens to the ways males physiologically influence queens. Our latest work on how honey bee societies ear their future queens provides just another example of that story.”
