Meeting location has been changed due to Lynchburg City Public Works needing our meeting space to coordinate recent storm damage cleanup. Aprils meeting will be held at the Lynchburg Business Development Center at 147 Mill Ridge Road Lynchburg, Virginia. This is located on the road beside Taylors Brothers (across the street from the Home Depot entrance). The speaker will be Virginia State Apiarist Keith Tignor and and he will be covering a variety of topics including laws and ordinances related to beekeeping in Virginia.
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Earlier Event: March 15
March 15, 2018 - Monthly PBA meeting
Later Event: April 21
Amherst Honey Bee Festival
April 16, 2026 Club Meeting
The speaker for April’s meeting was Davanna McClellan. She addressed her recent research on the potential medicinal uses of Lantern fly “honey”. Davanna is a junior at Liberty University and is the president of Liberty’s beekeeping club. She is pursuing a degree in Zoo & Wildlife Biology and hopes to someday work in the field or in a zoo.
Adult and Nymph Lantern Fly
Nymphs hatch in spring and develop into adults by summer.
Davanna McClellan
Davanna and club member, Dr. Morgan Horning, are working on a research project involving European honeybees and the invasive spotted lanternfly. Their project examines the differences in the antimicrobial performance of wildflower honey and honey contaminated with spotted lantern fly honeydew. The team decided to undertake this research because honey is used as medicine, and if it is found that one honey outperforms the other, then that specific type of honey could be marketed as more effective against bacteria.
Julie Arthur demonstrated how to do a mite wash.
Check out our photo gallery page to see the swarm pictures sent in by our club members.
