Ann Zudekoff, PBA Club Educator will be presented a presentation on Varroa Mites called, “You know you’ve got them, so what can you do about them?” This is the time of year to start (or be finished) extracting spring honey, doing mite counts and treatments if necessary, or consider making splits. Varroa mites testing and treating is one of the top priority of beekeepers to maintain healthy colonies and help ensure our bees are healthy enough to make it into and through winter.
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Earlier Event: May 31
Va State Beekeepers Association 2019 Spring / Summer Conference and Meeting
Later Event: July 15
Eastern Apiculture Society 2019 Summer Conference
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.
