Garden Club News
The Extraordinary Lives of
Honey Bees
How they make babies, honey,
wax, fill our dinner plates, and are the smartest insect.
Sunday September 8, 2024, 2-4pm
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Why honey bees are irreplaceable (how they are unlike any other
insect or pollinator)
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How a colony of 10's of thousands of honey bees behaves as a
single animal
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How honey bees make honey (very labor intensive!) and where
honey gets its flavor.
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How honey bees make more honey bees (bizarre and always deadly)
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What is killing the bees, and how you can help them
· Loads of fascinating bee facts you can take home to impress your friends... including "No male honey bee has a father, only a grandfather." And you will be able to effortlessly identify the gender of any honey bee you see on flowers in your garden!
Our speaker, Phil Frank, is a science journalist, writer, TV producer, and director of non-fiction films. His programs have been seen on CNN, Discovery Channel, National Geographic Channel, Science Channel, A&E, Travel Channel, Headline News, History Channel, TLC, NY Times website, Washington Post website, and international channels. While producing a National Geographic program about mass animal die-offs, Phil became fascinated by honey bees. In 2014, he started his first hive and now has 15 hives on his deck, and one glass walled hive in his kitchen where he studies busy bees year round. Phil developed and runs websites for the Maryland State Beekeepers Association and Maryland’s Montgomery County Beekeepers Association. He designs beekeeping curricula and teaches honey bee biology for beekeepers. After years of study, he earned a Master Beekeeper certification from Eastern Apicultural Society.
Phil recently coauthored and published 'Hive Tour' a photo-rich book showing the extraordinary lives of honey bees.
There will be time for a Q & A.
Light refreshments will be served.
The Garden Club plant sale table will be available.
Admission to this event is free for Museum Members (use promo code memberssm).
There is a $10 fee for nonmembers.
Please register at www.Sandy Spring Museum.org
or
call 301-774-0022
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Upcoming Events
Managing Stormwater Runoff and Increasing Biodiversity in
the Home Landscape with RainScapes
Sunday November 10, 2024
2pm – 4pm
Come and learn about how to evaluate your home landscape for
stormwater runoff opportunities and what kinds of solutions have worked in
Montgomery County! The focus will be on showing predominantly native RainScapes
gardens that are managing stormwater and providing beautiful biodiversity
benefits too.
Bio: Ann English, PLA, ASLA, LEED® AP BD+C, CBLP 1 &2( D+I)
has a life-long love of plants and nature. Her design work has been in the
private, non-profit, governmental as well as the academic sectors. Her focus is designing with plants that
perform well in the environments in which they are planted, with emphasis on
stormwater management. She has degrees in American History/ Architectural
History (BA, Penn) Regional Planning (MRP, Penn State) and Landscape
Architecture (MLA, UGA) and is the manager of the Montgomery County RainScapes
Program of the Department of Environmental Protection and has been gardening
since she first planted tulips and zinnias with her father at age 5.
Light refreshments will be served.
Hosted by the Sandy Spring Museum Garden Club, a plant sale will be held concurrently
Free admission with registration at www.SandySpringMuseum.org
Or call 301-774-0022
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The Sandy Spring Museum Garden Club is an activity group of the Sandy Spring Museum. Our activities can be found on the Garden Club webpage: https://www.sandyspringmuseum.org/programs-and-events/garden-club/.
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