The SEPTEMBER meeting of the

East Richmond Beekeepers Association will be

Tuesday, SEPTEMBER 14, 2010, 6:30-8:30 pm.

Keith Tignor, the State Apiarist, will be speaking on

Drones:  The Underappreciated Bee.

The meeting will be held at the Fort Lee Baptist Church,

corner Laburnum Avenue & Charles City Road,

2727 Charles City Road, Richmond, Va 23231.

Refreshments will be provided.

What’s blooming now, for honey bees, in August, in the Eastern Virginia area around Richmond, Mechanicsville, New Kent County, Charles City County, Prince George County, Hanover County, Henrico County … ?  It’s been a very intensely hot summer in this area, with little rain in many parts of this locality, and corn and other crops have suffered and died.  A little rain has helped what remains.

Beside your garden with vegetables such as pumpkin and squash, there are field crops and garden patches of buckwheat and sunflowers blooming, and so-called weeds such as partridge pea, goldenrod, chicory, knotweed, shrubs such as chaste tree, crepe myrtle bush, and single petal row of roses, and more, blooming!

Want to see the types of programs we’ve enjoyed in the past?  Check out the Club History page in this web site!

Photo Credits in this web site:  Thanks to Jones Tyler, David Stover, Evelyn Waring, Clark S. Donley, Anne Morrow Donley, Douglas N. Ladd.