August Meeting
Be sure to join us for our August meeting, this Thursday August 20th at 6:00 pm (NOTE TIME CHANGE)
ALsO PLEASE NOTE!!!
This month’s meeting will be a Club Picnic and educational/demonstration progressive field trip .
We will meet at Davd Henschke’s (near Roger’s).
First, we will meet at Dave’s for a picnic dinner (no need to bring anything but yourself)
at 6:00pm
Direction to Dave’s::
We will have a picnic as well as a “show and tell” discussion and demonstration time on various ways to extract honey
Then we will travel over to Roger’s (only a couple of miles away) for dessert and demo of Roger’s honey operation.
We would really like to see you. If you know of any other beekeepers, potential beekeepers, or just someone who wants to learn about beekeeping, invite them to come!
Please Join us!
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Explore The World of Bees
Did you know….
A typical beehive has around 40,000 to 60,000 bees
Queen bees mate over a few short days, then spend the rest of their days laying eggs
Drone bees (males) only purpose is to mate with the queen bee then die
Worker bees (females) face the same fate when they sting , normally instant death!
Worker bees generally live around 30 days, unless they are born at the onset of winter, in which case they might last through till spring
A single bee can produce about 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
Drones won’t sting you – they have no stinger