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The Beehives at the DCC

May 30, 2020

A Message from Hives for Humanity:

Hello All!
Thank you for those who attended our event online last night, for your questions and presence, and for your patience with a few tech issues (our Zoom account says we can have 100 people but we were unable to add people after 50 last night).
For any of you who signed up but did not make it into the call, our apologies for that: we are learning as we go on this platform. We have two offers to make up for that error:
1) Here is the recorded workshop – we will post it in our socials soon, please feel free to share it, and a note that it is unedited! The password to access is: 8R!2Y$1& 
2) We have scheduled another “Wonder of the Honey Bee” online for those that were not able to access last night’s zoom event. The online workshop will be held on June 2nd at 6pm. At this time we ask that only the people that were not able to access the live event last night register for the second workshop. Please register here.
Thanks all!

May 20, 2020

Hello all,

The Dunbar Community Centre, the DCC Beekeeping Club and Hives for Humanity would like to invite you to two online zoom pollinator workshops.  All ages welcome to the first workshop, but the second of these is targeted to children (ages 6-12) and takes place during school hours.

1) Wonder of the Honey Bee: https://hives4humanity_intro2bees.eventbrite.com**

Tue, May 26, 2020
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM PDT
**THIS NEIGHBOURHOOD SMALL GRANT PROJECT WAS FUNDED BY THE VANCOUVER FOUNDATION AND ADMINISTERED BY KITSILANO NEIGHBOURHOOD HOUSE.
WWW.NEIGHBOURHOODSMALLGRANTS.CA
2) Pollinator Plants and Bees Knees: https://hives4humanity_pollinatorplants.eventbrite.com

Wed, June 3, 2020

10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PDT

 

 

Greetings Dunbar,

Spring has arrived and the bees are buzzing. All four of the community centre hives made it through the winter. We have had an amazing spring for blossoms and this shows in the health and honey production of our hives.  In the next weeks, you will notice the introduction of honey supers on each hive. These are shallower boxes that go above the deeper boxes used for brood rearing.

If you have questions or comments or would like to help or learn more about beekeeping, reach out to dunbarbeekeepers@gmail.com

Till next time, Diane

Our bees busy at work and clearly not needing to social distance!

A comparison between the European honey bee (right) and a native bee (left).
Shadows of flying honey bees seen in black.

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