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April 2024

RBA Monthly Meeting: Dr Nuria Morfin – Buzzworthy Breakthroughs: Exploring Cutting-Edge Research in Bee Science

April 9, 2024 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Cambie Community Centre – Richmond, 12800 Cambie Road
Richmond, British Columbia V6V 0A9 Canada
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What's the latest?? Nuria Morfin, is the Technology Transfer Program Lead in British Columbia. She has been working with honey bees for fifteen years as an extensionist, beekeeper, and researcher. Nuria got her PhD from the University of Guelph – Honey Bee Research Centre, where she later worked as a researcher studying the impact of stressors on health and behaviour, analyzing the mechanisms behind behavioural immunity. Nuria also worked as a Bee Inspector for the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food…

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May 2024

RBA Monthly Meeting: Strategies for Spring

May 14, 2024 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Cambie Community Centre – Richmond, 12800 Cambie Road
Richmond, British Columbia V6V 0A9 Canada
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Please join us at our upcoming monthly RBA meeting. It will be an opportunity for members to share knowledge, collaborate on beekeeping strategies, network, and learn from each other. Our focus will be members working in small groups with a mix of skills and knowledge. The discussions will centre on current seasonal issues for beekeepers such as swarm management, mite monitoring and treatment, brood management and more.

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June 2024

Field Day – Hosted by Urban Bee

June 9, 2024 @ 11:00 am - 3:00 pm
Urban Bees, 5300 34b Ave
Delta, BC V4L 2P1 Canada

Come and join us for a fun day of demonstrations and learning, designed to improve your own set of “Beekeeping Toolkits”. Experienced and successful beekeepers talk of developing the following skill sets: • Your mental game - how to deal with what you see regardless of what you planned • Your physical toolkit - what should your personal bee kit include? • The skills and techniques to use your tools efficiently and to manage your bees calmly while getting the…

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September 2024

RBA Monthly Meeting: Reflections on the Season

September 10, 2024 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Kinsmen Nature Pavilion, 11851 Westminster Highway
Richmond, British Columbia V6X 1B4 Canada

Join us in person (only) as we're finally able to reconvene at the Kinsmen Pavilion at the Richmond Nature Park.  Reconnect with your fellow keepers in person, talk about the season that is almost behind us and your winter preparation.   Hopefully people will have extracted some honey by September as we are also looking at a honey blind taste test during the meeting. So, bring your honey samples in very small jars! More details in the next newsletter.

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October 2024

RBA Monthly Meeting: Jane Lakes, Native Bees and Honeybees

October 8, 2024 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Kinsmen Nature Pavilion, 11851 Westminster Highway
Richmond, British Columbia V6X 1B4 Canada

Our speaker is Jane Lakes; she is a professional beekeeper and native bee enthusiast. She has worked in the field of urban beekeeping since 2019 and has recently expanded her interests into the wild world of native bees. She is currently a member of the Native Bee Society of British Columbia and is a student in the Master Melittollogist program with Oregon State University. She will highlight some of the adverse effects that honey bees can have on our wild…

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November 2024

RBA Monthly Meeting: Problem solving your hive

November 12, 2024 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Kinsmen Nature Pavilion, 11851 Westminster Highway
Richmond, British Columbia V6X 1B4 Canada

The event will be an interactive evening of problem solving in small groups with hot topics which we encounter in every day beekeeping. There will be prizes for participation and prizes for ingenious sleuthing. There’ll be lots of time to chat during and in between activities.

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January 2025

AGM and Dr Medhat Nasr – What does it take to successfully winter honey bees?

January 14 @ 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
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Join us for an early start for the AGM followed by a talk by noted research scientist Dr. Medhat Nasr. Dr. Nasr is a highly regarded apiculturist, educator, and regulator with over 50years of experience in both the public and the private sector.  In Alberta, he served as Alberta Provincial Apiculturist from 2002-2019. Topic: What does it take to successfully winter honey bees? The beekeeping industry worldwide is greatly affected by the recent challenges to managed honey bee (Apis mellifera…

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February 2025

RBA Monthly Meeting: Oxalic Vapourizing

February 11 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Kinsmen Nature Pavilion, 11851 Westminster Highway
Richmond, British Columbia V6X 1B4 Canada

Join us for an in person meeting (only) to discuss all things oxalic vapourizing.  We will have several different models on hand to explore and ask questions.  Due to nature of oxalic vaping, we won't actually be firing them up, but this is the closest you'll get to getting hands on with a a few different models.  We'll also discuss, as a club, the possible purchase and management of vapourizers for members to use. New VP Barbara Forster-Rickard will also…

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March 2025

RBA Monthly Meeting: Getting Ready for Spring

March 11 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
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RBA Members Jeff and Amanda Lee of Honey Bee Zen Apiaries Ltd will guide us through their tips and tricks for spring beekeeping tasks, such as doing post mortems, promoting colony build-up, treatment and swarm control as we all prepare for the upcoming season. This may be an in person meeting or a Zoom meeting.  Stay tuned and check back closer to the date.

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April 2025

RBA Monthly Meeting: Swarm Season will be upon us

April 8 @ 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Kinsmen Nature Pavilion, 11851 Westminster Highway
Richmond, British Columbia V6X 1B4 Canada
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Join us for a discussion on all things swarm.  Though spring seems slow this year it will happen.  Several RBA members will be on hand to discuss their favourite swarm prevention technique as well as their tools for catching.  Also, learn about the swarm list and if it's some thing for you.  This will be an in person event.

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