Bee News

Spring Field Trip Time!

Our Annual Spring Hands-On Field Trip will be rescheduled tentatively for Saturday, April 4, 2020 (due to the ongoing COVID-19 Pandemic) – (Packages, Splits, Nucs, Beginning and Advanced Workshop) – Host: Ken Bobo – Location: Bob McKenzie’s 8:30AM – 11:00AM – 592 Town Creek Dr.…
Educational Classes

Practical Beekeeping Course 2020

The Pickens County Extension Service and local beekeepers (Randy Tudor and BJ Weeks) are hosting a 5 week course on beekeeping for beginning beekeepers. The course will cover starting beekeeping, building equipment, understanding bee pests, medications, strategies for keeping bees, producing and extracting honey. A…
Educational Classes

Bee School 2020

A Beginning Beekeeping Workshop With A Strong Emphasis On Practical Beekeeping Who: Individuals and families interested in learning about bee keepingDate: Saturday, February 8, 2020When: 8:00 AM – 4:00 PMWhere: Pickens Extension Office, 500 Stegall Dr, Jasper, GA 30143What to bring: Pen & paper for…
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Beekeepers Seek to Save Honeybees From a Colony-Invading Pest

By Paige Embry, Undark Magazinesmithsonian.comSeptember 30, 2019Read the original and full article here. Give the gift of Smithsonian magazine for only $12! http://bit.ly/1cGUiGvFollow us: @SmithsonianMag on Twitter Virtually everyone in the beekeeping business will tell you that the biggest threat facing honeybees isn’t pesticides, starvation, or even the…
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To save honey bees we need to design them new hives

September 10, 2019Article written by Derek Mitchell, The Conversation View the original article here. Credit: Aleksandr Gavrilychev/Shutterstock Despite the importance of nests to honey bees, the hives we build them bear little resemblance and have few of the properties of the natural tree nests European…