Date: Tuesday, November 9 | Time: 7 pm | Location: Online on Zoom Topic: Irish Honeybee Conservation with Wild ColoniesMichiel from Boomtree Bees will share his experience with honeybee conservation in Ireland. The main presentation starts at 7 pm, but feel free to sign in beginning at 6:30 pm for an open Q&A session. See our Facebook page or join via the Zoom link above. NOTE: Please post questions/comments in the Zoom chat. Facebook is not monitored during our educational meetings. Speaker: Michiel Verspuij from Boomtree Bees "Growing up in my hometown Wellseind, a little place along the river Maas in the Netherlands, I was always out in nature. From a young age I was fascinated with the environment around me, particularly trees. I was intrigued by how adaptable they are, their different shapes and structure and how useful they are to both wildlife and humans. This led me to go on to study Forestry and Landscape Management in Velp, Gelderland, NL. After completing my studies I came to Ireland in 2001 where I started a forestry contracting business in Galway. Throughout these years I became increasingly aware that things needed to change. Hedgerows were disappearing and biodiversity on farms was diminishing because of the intensification of farming practices. At this point I changed career and went into organic farming. Here it became clear that bees were vital for pollination of crops. With that in mind I started a beekeeping course and got a hive of bees. It soon became apparent to me that conventional beekeeping is more focused on honey production and is less concerned with what the bees require to live a healthy, natural life. I began to research and found that there were more wholesome ways of beekeeping which in turn led me to explore how bees live in the wild. Given the increasing loss of wild habitats I looked at ways to mimic their natural nesting sites in cavities in trees." Please join us - our monthly meetings are always free and open to the public!Date: Tuesday, October 12 | Time: 7 pm | Location: Online on Zoom Topic: Preparing Your Hives for Winter
Please join us - our monthly meetings are always free and open to the public!Date: Tuesday, September 14 | Time: 7 pm | Location: Online on Zoom Topic: Colony ManagementHow Your Management System Impacts the Health and Productivity of Your Colonies 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!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. 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! 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. Native plant expert Mark Charles of Wild Ones was our guest speaker at the April 12 club meeting. He has been growing native plants in his Ann Arbor yard since 1995. He has organized pollinator events for children, and helped with schoolyard butterfly gardens. He is a volunteer park steward for the City of Ann Arbor Natural Area Preservation. Mark generously provided us with some handouts on planting for pollinators; download them below. Visit the Wild Ones website for more helpful info: http://www.wildones.org/.
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