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Upcoming Events

Monthly Educational Meeting
Always free and open to the public!  

​Date:  Tue, July 13, 2021  |  Time: 7 pm  |  Location: Online    

​Darwinian Beekeeping with Dr. Thomas D. Seeley

Darwinian beekeeping is an evolutionary approach to beekeeping, one that seeks to provide managed honey bee colonies with living conditions that are as close as possible to those of wild honey bee colonies. The goal is to harmonize our beekeeping methods with the natural history of Apis mellifera, and thus allow the bees to make full use of the toolkit of adaptations that they have evolved over the last 30 million years. I will review ways in which the living conditions of honey bees differ between wild and managed colonies. I will also show how we can pursue beekeeping in a way that is centered less on treating a bee colony as a honey factory and more on nurturing the lives of the bees.

The main presentation starts at 7 pm, but feel free to sign in beginning at 6:30 pm for an open Q&A session. See our Facebook page or join via the Zoom link here.

Speaker: Dr. Thomas D. Seeley is the Horace White Professor in Biology at Cornell University. He is based in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, where he teaches courses on animal behavior and does research on the behavior and social life of honey bees. His work is summarized in three books: Honeybee Ecology (1985), The Wisdom of the Hive (1995), and Honeybee Democracy (2010).  Visit our blog for more.

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