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  • April Monthly Meeting

    Powder Valley Conservation Nature Center Auditorium 11715 Cragwold Road, Kirkwood, MO, United States

    Understanding Varroa Mites and their impact on our honey bees by Dr. Juliana Rangel-Posada Juliana has a Ph. D. in Neurobiology and Behavior from Cornell University and is currently Associate Professor of Apiculture in the Department of Entomology at Texas A&M University. She is an active member of the Texas Beekeepers Association and has spoken… Read More »April Monthly Meeting

  • Bees surrounding a bee-made pot of royal jelly

    May Monthly Meeting

    Powder Valley Conservation Nature Center Auditorium 11715 Cragwold Road, Kirkwood, MO, United States

    Raising Local Queens | Jane Sueme, Co-founder of Saint Louis Beekeepers Jane will present on the Saint Louis Beekeepers Sustainable Stock Apiary's work to raise local, regionally-adapted queen stock. Jane will share the story of how their project was inspired by Randy Oliver with Scientific Beekeeping and SLU bee researcher Geraldo Camillo. The team of… Read More »May Monthly Meeting

  • June Monthly Meeting

    Powder Valley Conservation Nature Center Auditorium 11715 Cragwold Road, Kirkwood, MO, United States

    Dr. David T. Peck, Director of Research and Education at Betterbee will discuss treatment options for Varroa mites. Dr. Peck's doctoral work in Cornell University's Department of Neurobiology and Behavior focused on the transmission of mites between bee colonies, as well as the mite-resistance traits of the untreated honey bees living in Cornell's Arnot Forest. After… Read More »June Monthly Meeting

  • July Monthly Meeting

    Powder Valley Conservation Nature Center Auditorium 11715 Cragwold Road, Kirkwood, MO, United States

    Eugene Makovec will present “Packaging and Selling Honey in Missouri: A Guide for small and medium-sized Beekeeping Operations”.  He’ll discuss the laws for bottling, labeling and selling honey in Missouri — partly the kitchen rules he help to  change in 2015, but also the various rules and exemptions on sales tax, and where and how… Read More »July Monthly Meeting

  • On left: Man removing honey frames that have been extracted from a stainless steel extractor and putting them back in the white wooden super hive box that is sitting on the floor. On right: A woman holding a frame of honey on top of a large tub uncapping station. She is working on removing the cappings wax that the bees put over the wax when it is ready to store in the hive.
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    July Extractaganza

    Isabee's 765 Gravois Road, Fenton, MO, United States

    DON'T FORGET TO REGISTER for the 2023 Extractaganza. If you have supers full of honey to extract, and don't own your own extractor, this is your opportunity to use an electric extractor to harvest your honey. We will have motorized extractors & uncapping stations set up. Members are invited to bring up to 4 supers to extract that day. Experienced beekeepers will… Read More »July Extractaganza

  • August Monthly Meeting

    Powder Valley Conservation Nature Center Auditorium 11715 Cragwold Road, Kirkwood, MO, United States

    Randall Cass Iowa State UniversityBee Extension Specialist Join us in August for a fun talk from our keynote speaker Randall Cass who will share research that suggests beekeepers need to get stung with some frequency to avoid becoming anaphylactic.  He’ll also share ISU's published research on the effect of prairie strips, which are in-field contour… Read More »August Monthly Meeting

  • Sept Monthly Meeting

    Powder Valley Conservation Nature Center Auditorium 11715 Cragwold Road, Kirkwood, MO, United States

    In addition to "This Month in Beekeeping", John Pashia and Ken Heitkamp will present how to make mead, a wine made from fermented honey. Mead is the oldest known alcoholic beverage (older than beer), discovered in clay vessels found in Asia to be ~9,000 years old and is mentioned in much of Nordic mythology. John… Read More »Sept Monthly Meeting

  • Oct Monthly Meeting

    Powder Valley Conservation Nature Center Auditorium 11715 Cragwold Road, Kirkwood, MO, United States

    Our October keynote speaker will be William Hesbach.  He'll discuss Winter Management: How honey bees thermoregulate and survive in cold climates. Bill Hesbach is the President of the Connecticut Beekeepers Association, a Connecticut native with a background in engineering where he teaches bee biology and various beekeeping methods at regional beekeeping club meetings. He's an… Read More »Oct Monthly Meeting

  • Nov Monthly Meeting

    Powder Valley Conservation Nature Center Auditorium 11715 Cragwold Road, Kirkwood, MO, United States

    Our keynote speaker will be Paul Landsberg, he will discuss "Over Wintering For Spring Success". Paul Landsberg age 42 from Clinton, Missouri, owner of Paul’s Honey Farm LLC which was established by his father Chris Landsberg when Paul was 3 years old in 1983.  In November of 2015 the business, still more of a hobby,… Read More »Nov Monthly Meeting

  • Jan 2024 Monthly Meeting

    The Lodge Des Peres 1050 Des Peres Road, Des Peres, United States

    Our keynote speaker will be Cory Stevens on Queen Rearing.  Tom Sostsman will also talk about wax dipping hive bodies.  Join us for a light refreshments (it's free) and social time at 6:30pm, the meeting will start at 7:00 pm. Cory Stevens comes to us from his 27 acre farm in Bloomfield, Missouri; which he… Read More »Jan 2024 Monthly Meeting