Jan 2024 Monthly Meeting

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 manages for wildlife and pollinator habitat. Cory and his wife Jaime own Stevens Bee Company where they have selected a VSH line of bees they call "Missouri Mite Hunters." Cory is a Past President of Missouri State Beekeepers Association. He was certified as a Master Beekeeper by the Eastern Apicultural Society in 2013, and earned a MS in entomology from University of Nebraska - Lincoln. He was trained by Sue Cobey in 2014 to instrumentally inseminate queen bees. Cory slips bees into random conversation with strangers, and annoys his wife by constantly talking about bees.