DAY: Wednesday, September 13th, 2023 (2nd Wednesday of every month)
TIME: 6:30pm - 9pm
WHERE: RECORDING IS AVAILABLE
LEARN - A Year in the Life of the Honey Bee Colony

WHO - Jamie Ellis

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TALK DESCRIPTION

Honey bees live in perennial colonies. Survival and reproduction are the ultimate goals of any organism and honey bee colonies are no different. Jamie will discuss the yearly life-cycle of a colony and what it does to survive the fluctuations in temperature, rainfall, forage availability, and other stressors that it faces.

TUNE IN TO LEARN...

• The yearly life-cycle of a colony
• The two main goals of a honey bee colony
• What it means when a honey bee colony swarms
• The major changes in a honey bee colony and the season in which those changes occur.

SPEAKER BIO

Jamie Ellis is the Gahan Endowed Professor of Entomology in the Department of Entomology and Nematology at the University of Florida. He has a BS degree in Biology from the University of Georgia (USA) and a PhD in Entomology from Rhodes University in South Africa.

At the University of Florida, Jamie has responsibilities in Extension, instruction, and research. Regarding his Extension work, Jamie created the UF/IFAS Bee College and the UF/IFAS Master Beekeeper Program. As an instructor, Jamie supervises PhD and masters students. Currently, Jamie and his team have over 30 active research projects in the fields of honey bee husbandry, conservation and ecology, and integrated crop pollination

DID YOU KNOW...

Jamie Ellis has hosted more than seventy episodes of the podcast "Two Bees in a Podcast"?
You can listen HERE or on your regular podcast player.

Info for swarm control: https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/IN785

Info on Jamie's lab: https://entnemdept.ufl.edu/

https://entnemdept.ufl.edu/honey-bee/

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