Members and Friends, please join us on July 21 for our Membership Meeting and educational session. This will be an IN PERSON and ZOOM meeting at the University of Missouri Extension Center at 260 Brown Road in St. Peters. The club meeting will begin at 7:00.  You can come early – 6:00 PM –  for Q&A with experienced beekeepers.

Our Guest Speaker, Jim Masucci, is the owner of JDM Bees and he is a frequent contributor to The American Bee Journal.  Jim has presented to TRB beekeepers on many occasions.

Jim is local to the St. Louis area and is both a honeybee researcher and a sideliner.  As a honeybee researcher, Jim ran some of the largest field trials ever to develop a new varroa-control product.  He recently retired to focus full time on his honeybee business where he is up to ~200 production hives and 70 nucs.  He has written about his transition to a full beekeeper in BeeCulture magazine and has contributed to The American Bee Journal as well.  He continues to consult and run field trials for Greenlight Biosciences in their effort to bring an RNAi-based varroa control product to the market.

Web Page:  www.jdmbees.com  e-mail:  jdmbees@gmail.com