CAUTION!
Meeting is
October 16,
NOT the 9th.
All other monthly meetings will be the 2nd Wednesday.
DAY: Wednesday, October 16, 2024 (NEW DATE! )
TIME: 7:00 pm - Socializing begins at 6:30 pm
TYPE: Zoom (click HERE when time to join meeting)
LEARN - Feeding Pollen While Putting Small Hive Beetles to the Torch
WHO: Dr. Lewis Bartlett, Professor of honey bee health at the University of Georgia.
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SCHEDULE
| 6:30.pm.ET | Virtual Socializing | |
| 7:00.pm ET | Club Announcements and Member News | |
| 7:30 pm ET | Presentation by Dr. Lewis Bartlett, "Feeding Pollen while putting Small Hive Beetles to the Torch" |
EVENT DESCRIPTION
This talk will cover the threat of small hive beetles in their southeastern range:
* The "expanding front" of small hive beetle's pressure
* How they damage hives
* Their connection to protein supplements
* Ways we can control small hive beetles through honey bees' naturally evolved defenses
* New control agents being developed to trap and kill SHBs in the hive, but safe for bees
SPEAKER BIO
Dr. Lewis Bartlett is a professor of honey bee health at the University of Georgia. He specializes in infectious bee diseases, and the biology of honey bee parasites. Dr. Lewis trained in York, Cambridge, Exeter, & Falmouth in the UK, in San Francisco, California, and Atlanta and Athens, GA. While his research originally focussed on understanding what drives outbreaks of honey bee diseases, it has grown to include studying the effects of poor nutrition and pesticides on bee health. He is also developing a treatment for small hive beetles that is deadly to beetles but safe for the bees!
