Hive Dive
Events
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ACBA Zoom Presentation: Benjamin Powell, Invasive honeybee pests
FeaturedZoom presentation: Click to join meetingOur speaker will be Benjamin Powell of Clemson University. The topic will be Murder, She Wrote — but what she got is way worse!, discussing invasive new pests like the Asian Giant Hornet and Yellow-legged Hornet. -
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September In-Person ACBA Meeting: Jennie Durant, author of Bitter Honey
FeaturedAll Saints Episcopal Church Meeting Room 911 Dowling Blvd, San Leandro, CA, United StatesJoin us for our in-person monthly meeting! Our speaker will be Jennie Durant, author of Bitter Honey: Big Ag’s threat to bees and the fight to save them.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.
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ACBA Zoom Presentation: Dr. Boris Baer, “The Crazy Sex Life of Social Insects”
FeaturedZoom presentation: Click to join meetingOur speaker will be Dr. Boris Baer of UC Riverside. The topic will be The Crazy Sex Life of Social Insects!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.”
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October In-Person ACBA Meeting: Brian R. Johnson, UC Davis
FeaturedAll Saints Episcopal Church Meeting Room 911 Dowling Blvd, San Leandro, CA, United StatesJoin us for our in-person monthly meeting! Our speaker will be Dr. Brian Johnson, UC Davis Associate Professor in the Department of Entomology and Nematology.
Schedule:
- 7:00–7:30: Social time; new beekeeper round table (bring your questions, no matter how basic they seem!)
- 7:30–8:00: Club business, announcements, etc.
- 8:00–9:00: Speaker and questions.