Date: November 12, 2011 8:30 AM – 4 PM
Location: Maryland Department of Agriculture, 50 Harry S Truman Parkway, Annapolis.
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Zachary Huang, impact of pests and diseases on honeybee behavior.
75th Annual Fall Honey Show: Bart Smith, Honey Show Chair. [Honey Show Rules][Honey Show Entry Form]
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Keynote Speaker: Dr. Zachary Huang – The Effects of Nosema on Honey Bees, Varroa Mite Reproductive Biology
Dr. Zachary Huang is an associate professor of entomology at the Michigan State University. Growing up on China and attending agricultural college there soon after the cultural revolution, he won a national scholarship to study honey bees in Canada. After obtaining his Ph.D from the University of Guelph, he went to the University of Missouri at Columbia to work with plant mites. Soon after he moved to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and returned to honey bees. In 1998, he joined Michigan State University and became an associate professor in 2004.
At MSU, his main responsibilities include extension, research and teaching. He is known for developing the social inhibition model (at UIUC), the mitezapper (MSU), his cyberbee.net site and award winning photographs. He was awarded the J.I. Hambleton Award for Outstanding Research by the Eastern Apicultural Society of North America in August 2008.
Dr. Huang is joining us between a research trip to China and a beekeeping project in Haiti with the Farmer to Farmer Program of the Partnership of the Americas.
Speaker: Ms. Heidi Wolff – Urban vs. Rural Apiculture: An Observation Study of Pollen Quality and Content
Ms. Heidi Wolff is a graduate student in the Entomology Department of the George Washington University in Washington, DC. This summer she embarked on a cooperative project with Dr. Pettis’ team at the Beltsville Bee Lab to explore the nutritional resources available to urban, rural, and suburban bee stocks through comparisons of pollen collected. She has recently completed collections from the pilot phase of the project and will discuss the underlying questions, tools, and methodologies for this study.
Speaker: Dr. Frank Linton – Five Reasons You Should Become an EAS Master Beekeeper
Dr. Frank Linton is the most recently certified EAS Master Beekeeper in the state of Virginia, and a long term contributor to the beekeeping communities on both sides of the Potomac. He has maintained and measured with extraordinary accuracy the activities of an observation colony he maintains permanently within his home, and will discuss the reasons and the resources for pursuing higher education and accreditation in the field of beekeeping.
Honey Show Judge: Mr. David Morris is a Master Beekeeper, past-President of the Maryland State Beekeepers Association (with many other previous board positions), certified Maryland Honey Judge (and many-time chair of the November Honey Show), as well as newsletter editor and short course organizer for the Bowie-Upper Marlborough Beekeepers Association (BUMBA).
Directions:
Take Rt. 50 towards Annapolis.
In Annapolis, take Exit 22, Rt. 665 to Riva Rd.
Follow the Riva Rd. exit onto Riva Road South.
Go 4/10 miles to Harry S Truman Pkwy and turn right, at the light.
Go 1.2, miles to 50 Harry S Truman Hwy; the MDA building is on the right. Look for the yellow “BEE MTG” signs and the cows at the entrance to the drive.
