Meets once a month at the Hansen Nature Center in Tinker Park
Saturdays, with an onsite bee yard visit, check for updates
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Beginning Beekeeping Class 2025
Rochester NY
If you would like info about the 2025 class, when available, please send an email to: [email protected] or Contact
Rochester NY
If you would like info about the 2025 class, when available, please send an email to: [email protected] or Contact
BEE SWARMS WANTED!!!
Bees or Wasps? --check THIS PAGE first
CLICK HERE for a list of beekeepers ready to collect and capture honey bee swarms (Bee Swarm Catchers list).
*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
the SWARM LIST
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
*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
the SWARM LIST
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
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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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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