Join club vice president and bee charmer Sung Lee for a free session about managing varroa mites at the club apiary!
Sung has over 80 hives himself, and also manages many clients’ hives. He’ll demonstrate both methods of checking for mites (the sugar roll and the alcohol wash), and he’ll explain how to treat for mites -- both reactively with various treatments when the count is high, and continually as part of an Integrated Pest Management system.
If you're coming to this event, please register so we know how many people to expect.
The Alameda County Beekeepers Association will have a booth at the Solano Stroll in North Berkeley and Albany — the East Bay's largest street festival. It'll include a live bee display. Join us in front of 1749 Solano Avenue (the cross street is Ensenada Avenue).
Join us for our monthly in-person meeting! Our speaker will be Dr. Elina Niño, UC Davis Associate Professor of Cooperative Extension - Apiculture.
Dr. Niño runs the E. L. Niño Bee Lab and the California Master Beekeeper program. She'll give an update on recent discoveries in the lab.
Join experienced club member Greg Mau for a free hands-on activity at the club apiary! Everyone is welcome, regardless of beekeeping ability. You'll see how other people handle bees, and handle them yourself, gaining experience and confidence. Bring your questions about your hive, too!
If you're coming to this event, please register so we know how many people to expect.
Join us for our monthly in-person meeting! Our speaker will be Jerry Przybylski on the topic of “Fall-Management - Goals for the Beekeeper and Issues in the Yard”.
Jerry will discuss what we need to do to get our bees through our mild winter and into the spring nectar flow.
Join us for our monthly in-person meeting! Our speaker will be Scott Jorgensen on the subject of top-bar beekeeping. Scott has kept bees continuously since 2011, starting off with top bar hives while serving in the US Peace Corps from 2011-2013. With over a decade of California beekeeping experience in both frame and top bar hive designs, Scott (and the bees) continue to learn in San Joaquin county.
Nicola Twilley is the author of the book Frostbite.
We all know how important bees are for pollination and our food supply. She'll give a talk on what she learned about food while writing her book about food refrigeration -- including a piece of bee-related refrigeration history that she didn't share in the book.
Join us for our annual pot-luck end-of-year celebration and officer elections. Note this event is at a different location in San Leandro compared to previous monthly meetings.
