Meets once a month at the Hansen Nature Center in Tinker Park
Saturdays from 1:30-3:30pm, with an onsite bee yard visit
(link A small informal style club to meet and talk about bees, honey & beekeeping. Topics are ad lib. Please check EVENTS for dates.
2020 Beginning Beekeeper Class starts February 8, 2020
2020 Beginning Beekeeper Class starts February 8, 2020
LIKE Rochester Beekeepers!
 SUPPORT NY Bills S3321 & A5164
Help is needed now to support the Honey Standard of Identity bill in the legislature;
. This bill is needed in New York to protect the image of honey and to assure the consumer that when a jar reads "Pure Honey" it is real honey not "Funny Honey". Pure Honey in NY Petition ********************************************************************************** |
Mandatory Hive Registration in NYS This is a serious issue that will affect all NYS beekeepers. Unfortunately few beekeepers are aware of the undertaking to reinstate mandatory registration (which was repealed in 2010), and that most beekeepers are being kept woefully uninformed and is some instances misinformed. What many would like to see is for the State of New York to provide services for all beekeepers, with no strings attached, and release information about disease info, spraying, and other programs which may affect honey bees such as tick control measures using pesticides-- all info which Albany possesses. There is a website with an online petition, press articles, Q&A page, comments page, and contact info for your representatives. https://www.freenybees.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------- NY Bee Wellness- an educational grassroots nonprofit program to teach beekeepers honey bee disease recognition & to promote honey bee health 
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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
Call 585-820-6619
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
Call 585-820-6619
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
