October Membership Meeting

When
October 11, 2022
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM (EDT)
Location
Wake County Commons Building, 4011 Carya Dr, Raleigh, NC 27610

7:00 PM: Come hangout with your fellow beekeepers!
(No Workshop this month – Zoom will start at 7:30)

Based on member feedback we have scheduled a social gathering in place of this month’s workshop. The club will provide light snacks, bottled water and a small selection of soft drinks. This is a perfect opportunity to ask questions, catch up with friends and make new ones.

7:30 PM Honey Bee Colonies as a Super-Organism: That's Incredible!
Randall Austin

Randall’s presentation takes each of the dictionary requirements for a living organism and examines how the colony itself meets those functions, many of which an individual bee cannot do. The thesis is two-fold: 1) there is no such thing as a single honey bee, and 2) we should call ourselves "colony keepers" instead of "beekeepers"?

The presentation is either fun and interesting or really profound, depending on how someone approaches it. There is plenty of information to pique the curiosity of beekeepers of all experience levels.

Randall Austin is a Master Beekeeper in northern Orange County, NC. He is Education Director for Orange County Beekeepers' Association, a Piedmont Regional Director for NCSBA, and co-chair of the NCSBA Master Beekeeper Program Committee. Retired from careers in the pharmaceutical and electric utility industries, Randall enjoys sharing with others about honey bees. He is Headmaster of Orange Beekeepers' annual Bee School and has traveled to Dominican Republic and west Africa to learn and share there. In addition to being an occasional contributor to the NCSBA Bee Buzz quarterly, for the past 9 years he has written a monthly educational article for Hillsborough's Bailey Bee Supply newsletter, archived here.

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October Membership Meeting