Meets every 4th Monday, 7p, at the Monroe Cooperative Extension,
249 Highland Ave., Rochester New York
Informal style club to meet and talk about bees, honey & beekeeping. Topics are ad lib. Please check schedule for changes.
 
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Sorry, Wasps NOT Wanted
During the summer and early autumn, wasps will build large papery, grayish nests. Unfortunately beekeepers are not interested in collecting these. Wasps are enemies to honey bees and sometimes will invade bee colonies to kill and rob. Contact an exterminator or follow directions on wasp spray containers.
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During the summer and early autumn, wasps will build large papery, grayish nests. Unfortunately beekeepers are not interested in collecting these. Wasps are enemies to honey bees and sometimes will invade bee colonies to kill and rob. Contact an exterminator or follow directions on wasp spray containers.
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BEE SWARMS WANTED!!!
*Do you have Spring bees on your lawn or yard? - you may have mining bees (link).
A youtube video taken by a homeowner with a bee swarm outside his front door!
Bee swarm season is upon us. Beekeepers are desperately seeking honey bees to replace bees that may have died during the last cold Winter. Beekeepers are prepared to collect or remove swarms
FREE OF CHARGE.
Generally a bee colony will send out a queen and bees to find a new home. This is their way of creating a new colony.
The bees will alight on a branch or other place for only a few hours or days. They then leave to a more sheltered permanent place such as a hollow tree, abandoned building, house soffit, and so on.
1) If you see a bee swarm, contact a beekeeper immediately, either through the Rochester Beekeepers 585-820-6619, or the Ontario Finger Lakes Beekeepers,(585) 394-7279 (greater Canandaigua area) ; both groups have lists of beekeepers on their "swarm list", as does the
Monroe County Master Gardener Helpline 585-473-5335
2) Do not spray with pesticides or water, as this may kill the Queen and other bees.
3) A fresh bee swarm usually will not sting as they are concerned with moving to a new home.
4) If possible, please tell the beekeeper:
a) how high the swarm is, what is it on?
b) How long has it been there?
c) How big is it? basketball size, watermelon size?
Click for an educational video on Honey Bee Swarms
A youtube video taken by a homeowner with a bee swarm outside his front door!
Bee swarm season is upon us. Beekeepers are desperately seeking honey bees to replace bees that may have died during the last cold Winter. Beekeepers are prepared to collect or remove swarms
FREE OF CHARGE.
Generally a bee colony will send out a queen and bees to find a new home. This is their way of creating a new colony.
The bees will alight on a branch or other place for only a few hours or days. They then leave to a more sheltered permanent place such as a hollow tree, abandoned building, house soffit, and so on.
1) If you see a bee swarm, contact a beekeeper immediately, either through the Rochester Beekeepers 585-820-6619, or the Ontario Finger Lakes Beekeepers,(585) 394-7279 (greater Canandaigua area) ; both groups have lists of beekeepers on their "swarm list", as does the
Monroe County Master Gardener Helpline 585-473-5335
2) Do not spray with pesticides or water, as this may kill the Queen and other bees.
3) A fresh bee swarm usually will not sting as they are concerned with moving to a new home.
4) If possible, please tell the beekeeper:
a) how high the swarm is, what is it on?
b) How long has it been there?
c) How big is it? basketball size, watermelon size?
Click for an educational video on Honey Bee Swarms
