AGENDA:
| 7:00.pm | SEASONAL BEEKEEPING Q&A (Scroll down to see how to submit questions) Seeing something odd in your hive? Something you don’t understand or can’t identify? This is the place to ask and share. |
| 7:30.pm | GUEST SPEAKER |
GUEST SPEAKER: Tracy Farone, DVM
GUEST SPEAKER TOPIC: "Biosecurity for Bees" - How to stop the spread of bee diseases.
DAY: Wednesday, March 10, 2021
TIME: 7:00pm - 9:00pm (link will work starting a 15-minutes early so you can set up your computer or phone)
WHERE: Online ONLY. Use the Zoom Link BelowParticipate to learn...
PARTICIPATE TO LEARN: Biosecurity for bees
TALK DESCRIPTION:
Biosecurity is a set of protocols to reduce the spread of disease. For human-diseases like Covid-19, people can wear face masks and social distance. But protecting our bees from bee-diseases requires whole different strategies (If you can get your bees to wear mandible masks, let us know!). Veterinarian Tracy Farone will give us biosecurity methodologies and practical tips to reduce health threats to your bees.
BIOGRAPHY:
Dr. Tracy Farone, is a veterinarian, and a Professor of Biology at Grove City College in Pennsylvania. Since late 2016, Dr. Farone has been researching beekeeping and bee medicine in Europe and throughout the United States, observing the inner workings of thousands of hives.
Now, she has a unique perspective on the relationships between veterinarians and beekeepers which she shares in lectures to both vet and beekeeper associations. Dr. Farone’s work has been featured in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association (JAVMA), and she has published several articles on bee medicine, including a “Bee Vet” series for Bee Culture magazine, written biosecurity industry guidelines for veterinarians entering bee yards, and developed an educational website, https://www.gccbeeproject.com
She is on the board of the Honey Bee Veterinary Consortium. She is currently writing chapters on bee medicine for veterinary textbooks and is consulting nationally and internationally (including Apimondia) with industry stakeholders.
On the Grove City College campus, Dr. Farone and her research students built a certified "pollinator friendly" garden used for research and teaching.
FUN FACT: I'm a certified master SCUBA diver.