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The 2nd Saskatchewan Bee Healthy Workshop
March 8 @ 8:30 am - 5:00 pm
The 2nd Saskatchewan Bee Healthy Workshop
(Skill Up: Quality Queen Production and Varroa and Bee Diseases Management)
Virtual Workshop Agenda
March 8 @ 8:30 am – 5:00 pm (CST)
8:30 Opening Remarks.
Nathan Wendell – President of SBDC, Dr. Medhat Nasr, SBDC-TAP
8:35 Quality of commercial queens
Dr. Dave Tarpy, Professor and Extension Apiculturist, Department of Applied Ecology
North Carolina State University, Raleigh NC, USA
9: 20 The Forgotten sex: The honey bee drone and their critical role in bee health
Dr. Garatt Slater, USDA Honey Bee Physiology and Genetics, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
10:00 Break (15 Min)
10: 15 Breeding honey bee colonies for lw Varroa growth (LVG) in Ontario
Dr. Alvaro De la Mora (Ph.D. Candidate), University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada
11:00 Assessment of Saskatchewan queen qualities.
Dr. Medhat Nasr – SBDC-Technical Adaptation Program Lead, Prince Albert, SK, Canada
11:30 Open Discussion with Saskatchewan Queen Producers
Commercial honey producers: Sasha Howland, Karen Pedersen, and Oxana Sukmanyuk Moderator: Dr. Medhat Nasr
12:15 Lunch
1:00 Bee Informed Partnership Survey says; Insights from a decade of documenting colony losses
and management practices in the USA.
Dr. Nathalie Steinhauer, Science Coordinator for the Bee Informed Partnership (BIP Research
Coordinator), University of Maryland, MD, USA
1:30 Bee Informed Partnership (BIP) BIP Bites; An overview of the BIP Tech Transfer Team Program.
Anne Marie Fauvel (BIP Technical Transfer Coordinator), University of Maryland, MD, USA
2:00 Field Trials of a New Acaricidal Compound Against Varroa destructor in Honey Bee Colonies
Dr. Stephen Pernal- Beaverlodge Research Farm, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Government of Canada, Beaverlodge, AB, Canada
2:40 Strategic Field Program – Western College of Veterinary Medicine: European Foul Brood
sampling analysis and potential antibiotics for disease treatment.
Dr. Sarah Wood, – University of Saskatchewan, Western College of Veterinary Medicine
Saskatoon, SK, Canada
3:10 Coffee break
3:30 Strategic Field Program – SBDC-TAP: Survey Results of European Foul Brood in Saskatchewan
Dr. Medhat Nasr – SBDC-Technical Adaptation Program Lead, Prince Albert, SK, Canada
4:00 Spring is around the corner, what and how you adjust management to keep healthy bees!
Mr. Geoff Wilson – Provincial Specialist in Apiculture, Government of Saskatchewan, Prince Albert, SK, Canada
4:30 Open Discussions
Moderator: Dr. Geoff Wilson – Provincial Specialist in Apiculture, Government of Saskatchewan, Prince Albert, SK, Canada
4:50 Concluding Remarks.
Nathan Wendell, SBDC President
5:00 Adjournment
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