This month, on July 15, 2008, and for the foreseeable future, we will be meeting at 7:30 p.m. at the Bayland Community Center, 6400 Bissonnet, Houston, Texas 77074. Get complete directions below.
The July program of the HBA will be a talk by Nancy Greig on “The Observation Hive at the Houston Museum of Natural Science.” The meeting will be on Tuesday, July 15, 2008, beginning at 7:30 p.m. at the Bayland Community Center. The public is invited. Admission is free.
At our July meeting, Nancy Greig, curator of the Cockrell Butterfly Center, will give a talk on her experiences setting up the observation hive that is now a popular part of the Butterfly Center. In May, 2007, the museum installed a four-frame observation honeybee hive inside the butterfly center as part of the renovation of the insect wing. Nancy will talk about how the observation hive works, sources for such hives, and the museum's experience with maintaining this type of hive on a permanent basis.
Observation hives are, by their very nature, unusually hard to maintain.
Nancy will discuss the specific problems she encountered with the observation hive and what has been done to resolve those problems. If you have ever considered having an observation hive, you should not miss this talk.
For directions to the new meeting place, click here.
To read about past programs of the Houston Beekeepers Association, Click here.
Observation Hive at the Museum