August's Monthly Meeting: Mite Biting Behavior - How to Improve Your Apiary the Inexpensive Way7/23/2021
Topic: Mite Biting BehaviorDorothey will explain mite biting behavior, finding it in your state, replacing your queen inexpensively, and expanding your apiary. The main presentation starts at 7 pm, but feel free to drop in beginning at 6:30 pm for a beginners' Q&A session.
Please join us - our monthly meetings are always free and open to the public!The main presentation starts at 7 pm, but feel free to drop in beginning at 6:30 pm for an open Q&A session. To view take home points from this meeting please visit the "General Meeting Take Home Points" section of the members only tab. Darwinian beekeeping is an evolutionary approach to beekeeping, one that seeks to provide managed honey bee colonies with living conditions that are as close as possible to those of wild honey bee colonies. The goal is to harmonize our beekeeping methods with the natural history of Apis mellifera, and thus allow the bees to make full use of the toolkit of adaptations that they have evolved over the last 30 million years. I will review ways in which the living conditions of honey bees differ between wild and managed colonies. I will also show how we can pursue beekeeping in a way that is centered less on treating a bee colony as a honey factory and more on nurturing the lives of the bees. Dr. Thomas D. Seeley is the Horace White Professor in Biology at Cornell University. He is based in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, where he teaches courses on animal behavior and does research on the behavior and social life of honey bees. His work is summarized in three books: Honeybee Ecology (1985), The Wisdom of the Hive (1995), and Honeybee Democracy (2010). He has also written Following the Wild Bees (2019) and The Lives of Bees: The Untold Story of the Honey Bee in the Wild (2019). Dr. Seeley received his undergraduate degree in chemistry from Dartmouth College. He received his PhD in 1978 from Harvard University, where he studied with Bert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson. He held a postdoctoral fellowship in the Society of Fellows at Harvard until 1980, when he accepted a faculty position at Yale University. He remained there until 1986, when he joined the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior at Cornell University. In recognition of his scientific work, he has received the Alexander von Humboldt Distinguished U.S. Scientist Prize, been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, received a Gold Medal Book Award from Apimondia for The Wisdom of the Hive, and been elected a Fellow of both the Animal Behavior Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His most enduring honor, though, is to have had a species of bee named after him: Neocorynurella seeleyi. Please join us - our monthly meetings are always free and open to the public! The main presentation starts at 7 pm, but feel free to drop in beginning at 6:30 pm for an open Q&A session. To view take home points from this meeting please visit the "General Meeting Take Home Points" section of the members only tab. Presenter: Grai St. Clare Rice is a co-founder of Honeybee Lives, with Chris Harp. She is an organic beekeeper, with 16 years of experience, as well as writer/photographer based in New York City. Grai is a native of New York City and describes herself as a city girl with a country heart. After ten years as an Editor/Producer at CNN’s New York Bureau, and many years before in the film, art, and publishing worlds, Grai’s focus turned to beekeeping and writing. With her love and knowledge of honeybees she is able to use her talents to encourage a better understanding and appreciation of honeybees by the public at large and help nurture beekeepers to embrace a gentle spiritual approach to their care thru intensive classes, presentations and writings. Topic: During the course of evolution, pollinators and plants have been involved in a seductive relationship that has been instrumental in creating the fecund world we live in today. Honeybees are the most productive pollinators because of how they communicate within the community of their colony. Understand how honeybees forage and how they interact with flowers in their search for nectar and pollen. Please join us - our monthly meetings are always free and open to the public! Meghan Milbrath has a vision. In her vision, no Michigan beekeeper would ever have to order bees from another state ever again. How can you, as a local Michigan, hobby beekeeper, help with this? Step one is overwintering your hives successfully (i.e. Varroa mite management). Step two is splitting your hives in the spring to prevent swarming (and to help with mite management). Step three is to sell or donate your extra bees from those splits to other beekeepers in your community through your local bee club. Interested? Hear about the program from Meghan herself: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhVpOcsls4A. Or learn more at https://pollinators.msu.edu/programs/michigan-local-nuc-program/. And, if you'd like to volunteer or take part in the A2B2 Nuc Pilot Program, please contact David Kazyak at dakazyak@gmail.com. Date: Tue, May 11 | Time: 7 pm | Location: Online on ZoomThe main presentation starts at 7 pm, but feel free to drop in beginning at 6:30 pm for an open Q&A session. Speaker: Dr. Jamie Ellis is the Gahan Endowed Professor of Entomology in the Department of Entomology and Nematology at the University of Florida. Dr. Ellis has responsibilities in extension, instruction and research related to honey bees. Regarding his extension work, Dr. Ellis created the UF, South Florida, and Caribbean Bee Colleges, and the UF Master Beekeeper Program. As an instructor, Dr. Ellis supervises Ph.D. and masters students in addition to offering an online course in apiculture. Dr. Ellis and his team conduct research projects in the fields of honey bee husbandry, conservation and ecology, and integrated crop pollination. Please join us - our monthly meetings are always free and open to the public!Date: Tue, March 9 | Time: 7 pm | Location: Online on Zoom Learn to identify reasons for a colony’s death based on the clues the bees left behind and how to prevent colony loss in future beekeeping seasons. The main presentation starts at 7 pm, but feel free to drop in beginning at 6:30 pm for an open Q&A session. Ana Heck has been an Apiculture Extension Educator at Michigan State University since July 2020. She was introduced to beekeeping while working in Nicaragua for two years with a non-profit organization that engaged local communities in rural development projects. She joined the University of Minnesota Bee Lab's Bee Squad in 2014, and she began with Michigan State University in 2019. Her work involves apiculture education initiatives and implementing policies to protect managed pollinators. Heck holds a Master’s degree in Public Policy and a graduate minor in Entomology from the University of Minnesota. Please join us - our monthly meetings are always free and open to the public!Date: Tue, February 9 | Time: 7 pm | Location: Online on Zoom
Presenter: Dr. Cem Akin
Cem Akin, MD, PhD, is a Professor of Internal Medicine in the Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology at the University of Michigan. He earned his medical degree from the Istanbul University School of Medicine. Afterwards, he completed his residency in Internal Medicine and PhD in Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. He then did his fellowship in Allergy and Immunology at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, where he also worked as a physician and researcher after finishing his fellowship. After an initial stint as an Assistant Professor at U-M, he took a position with Harvard Medical School as an Associate Professor of Medicine and established and led the Mastocytosis Center at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He then came back to Michigan in 2017 to work at U-M where he sees patients at allergy clinics and runs a research program on mast cell disease and anaphylaxis. He is internationally recognized for his research on mast cell disorders and anaphylaxis and has been asked to give numerous lectures on these areas. He is an active member of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI), chair of the Mechanisms of Allergy Asthma and Immunology interest section of the AAAAI, and has been named to the Top Doctors list in Hour Detroit Magazine and Boston Magazine. He has been selected to serve as President of the Michigan Allergy & Asthma Society (MAAS) beginning in July 2019. The mission of the MAAS is to provide continuing postgraduate education to allergists/immunologists of Michigan and to promote best clinical practices in a collegial environment. To see a recording of this presentation, click here.Online meeting February 6, 2021, 1pm - 3pmJoin Dave Pearce, A2B2's Bee School lead instructor, for an overview and discussion of what it takes to get started in beekeeping, why you might want to, and what to expect. FREE and open to the public via the Zoom platform. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86885160696?pwd=K0VlRkl2emlaZEFWNFFhWGZFbzM0UT09 Meeting ID: 868 8516 0696 Passcode: 825737 Dave Pearce is the owner of Local Buzz Bees and Honey and is the lead instructor at the A2B2 bee school. Questions? Please feel free to contact him @ 248-302-7797 or dpearce007@hotmail.com.
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