The Lodge Des Peres

Return Home Page Please join us for our November meeting, our guest speaker will be Chef Heidi Haller.  She will talk about cooking with honey, and we're having our annual honey baking contest!  To enter the baking contest please bring a baked good that features honey.  It will be even sweeter if you print out your… Read More »Nov 2025 Monthly Meeting

Home Please join us for our October meeting, our guest speaker will be Bill Hesbach talking about Thermoregulation and Ventilation in the Hive.  In this engaging talk, Bill will discuss how honey bees manage internal hive temperature through thermoregulation—and how this critical function affects the colony. He'll then examine the role of convection flows within… Read More »Oct 2025 Monthly Meeting

Home Please join us for our August meeting, our guest speaker will be Eugene Makovec.  Eugene will be discussing Missouri's Honey Law and Feeding Colonies for winter preparation. Eugene Makovec is a 30-year, third-generation beekeeper with about a dozen colonies in Lincoln County. He has been Editor of American Bee Journal since 2018, and has… Read More »Aug 2025 Monthly Meeting

Home Please join us for our July meeting, our guest speaker will be Kent Williams.  Kent is a Kentucky-based EAS Certified Master beekeeper who has been in beekeeping industry for 30+ years. In that time, Williams established the Kent Williams Bee School in conjunction with the Lake Barkley Beekeeper’s Association, as well as provided education… Read More »July 2025 Monthly Meeting

Home Please join us for our June meeting, our guest speaker will be Kamon Reynolds!  He will talk about varroa mite & pest management. Kamon Reynolds and his wife Laurel run one of the world's largest bee conferences, The North American Honey Bee Expo. They also run a small professional honeybee operation in middle Tennessee… Read More »June 2025 Monthly Meeting

Home Join us for our May meeting featuring guest speaker Myron Beachy, president of the Nassau County Beekeepers Association and a state-certified Queen Breeder based on Black Hammock Island in Northeast Florida. Myron is the owner of Beachy Queens and supplied the queens for our club in 2025. His work focuses on breeding honeybee lines… Read More »May 2025 Monthly Meeting

Home Please join us for our April meeting, our guest speaker will be Jim Masucci, talking about Managing your Hives for Honey Production. Jim, a St. Louis native, is both a honey bee researcher and sideliner beekeeper. As a researcher, Jim led some of the largest field trials ever conducted to develop a new varroa… Read More »Apr 2025 Monthly Meeting

Home Please join us for our March meeting, our guest speaker will be Tom Sostman, talking about Spring Management and Making Nucs. Tom Sostman has been a passionate beekeeper since 2018, dedicating himself to both the art and science of apiculture. Currently enrolled in the prestigious Great Plains Master Beekeeper program through the University of… Read More »Mar 2025 Monthly Meeting

Home If you attended the EMBA's Beginning Beekeepers Workshop on February 8th, 2025, please join us at this very informative follow up session.  This meeting will focus on everything you need to know to get started with your first hives in the Spring.  Come prepared with all of your questions!  There is no additional cost… Read More »2025 Beginner Workshop Follow Up Session

Home NO MEETING THIS MONTH, WE HOPE TO SEE YOU AT OUR 2025 EMBA WORKSHOP--Visit our Home Page to learn more about this exciting event and to buy tickets.