Join the Maryland State Beekeepers Association for a fascinating day packed with insights on honey bees & useful tips to keep them.
- Elections!
- Expert Speakers!
- HONEY SHOW!
- AWARDS! Free State and George Imirie
EVENT: MSBA will convene its 116 ANNUAL FALL MEETING, and 87th Honey Show with Guest Experts
DAY: November 16, 2024
TIME: 8:30AM - 4-ishPM
LOCATION: Zoom AND Montgomery College Germantown Campus
ADDRESS: If attending in person: 20200 Observation Drive, Germantown, MD 20876
The main meeting room will be Globe Hall in the High Technology (HT) Building.
Adjacent spaces on the first and second floor are reserved for honey show, vendors, and catering/food.
The meeting spaces are on the ground level and second floor with conveniently located elevators and restrooms on both floors.
Here is a link for a PDF map of the MC Germantown Campus: Germantown_Campus&Vicinity.pdf (montgomerycollege.edu)
HONEY SHOW
PRESENTATIONS:
"The intricate Process of Honey Bee Swarming" - Gard W. Otis, Professor Emeritus, University of Guelph
"The Biology of Mating" - Gard W. Otis, Professor Emeritus, University of Guelph
"Take Better Bee PHOTOS With Your Smartphone" - Phil Frank, EAS & Cornell Master Beekeeper, Co-Author of the Photo Book "Hive Tour: The Insider's Guide to Honey Bees"
Get loads of tips and techniques to take honey bee pictures better, closer, and faster. (Just in time for your holiday photos!)
You'll learn:
* how to give your phone-camera new capabilities
* how to overcome the most common phone photography mistakes
* 7 ways to avoid blurry photos
* Which lens to use
* how to focus tricky shots
* and much more.
"Comb and Nest Architecture" - Grai St. Clair Rice, Writer, Artist, Organic Beekeeper
A look at how honeybees construct comb using their unique physiology. It is both an act of community building and a feat of precise, structural integrity.Knowing how honeybees transform crystalline beeswax into the dynamic skeletal structure ofthis superorganism has the capacity to transform simple beekeeping habits into complex appreciation.
"Honey bees in the Garden: A Dance with Evolution" - Grai St. Clair Rice, Writer, Artist, Organic Beekeeper
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.
Understand how honeybees forage and how they interact with flowers in their search for nectar
and pollen.
BIOGRAPHIES:
Dr. Gard Otis studies the ecology, behaviour and evolution of honey bees and other insects. During his career, he has studied the swarming biology and population growth of Africanized honey bees in South America; drone behavior; the impact of tracheal mites on bee colonies; breeding bees resistant to tracheal mites; and defensive strategies of Asian honey bees to hornet attacks. From 2006-2013 he directed a highly successful beekeeping development project in Vietnam, for which he received the Order of Vietnam. He is recognized as an authority on the diversity of honey bees in Asia and is the only person in the world to have observed all of the species of honey bees in their native habitats.
During his career at the University of Guelph Gard taught more than 7000 students about the fascinating lives of honey bees and other insects.
Now retired, he remains involved in research and writing projects related to honey bees, hornets, and butterflies. He currently collaborates with researchers in India on the ecology and behavior of giant honey bees and in Vietnam on honey bee responses to attacking hornets. Gard lives with his wife and son near Guelph, Ontario.
Phil Frank is a science journalist and TV producer, writer, and director of non-fiction films. His programs have been seen on CNN, Discovery Channel, National Geographic Channel, Science Channel, A&E, Travel Channel, Headline News, History Channel, TLC, NYTimes website, Washington Post website, and international channels.
Phil is webmaster for MSBA and MCBA. He is a Certified Master Beekeeper certified by EAS and Cornell University. Phil recently co-authored and published 'Hive Tour' a photo rich book showing the extraordinary lives of honey bees.
Grai St. Clair Rice is an organic beekeeper, with 19 years of experience, as well as a writer/artist based in NYC.
In 2022, Grai started a solo company BeeJoy.org, to continue teaching and coaching beekeepers, and consult on landscape plantings for pollinators. She engages the public with visual presentations on beekeeping and gardening for honey bees, and helps broaden the vital knowledge and appreciation of honey bees and other pollinators. Grai co-founded HoneybeeLives in 2005, as an organization dedicated to encouraging a strong honey bee population by teaching in-depth workshops with an Organic, Biodynamic approach. Grai is the founder of the contemporary Ulster County Beekeepers Association. Grai became a badge carrying Citizen Pruner in NYC in 2013.grai@beejoy.org
https://www.facebook.com/BeeJoy
Instagram: beejoy.ny
AGENDA - subject to change
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Submit Honey Show Entries | Jim Fraser, Master Beekeeper, owner Maryland Honey Company |
| 9:00 AM | Welcome | Mary Laura Fitzgerald, MSBA President |
| 9:15 AM | Apiary Inspectors Report | Cybil Preston, Chief MD Apiary Inspector |
| 9:30 AM | "The Biology of Mating" | Gard W. Otis, Professor Emeritus, University of Guelp |
| 10:30.AM | Break | |
| 11:00 AM | "Take Better Bee PHOTOS With Your Cell Phone" | Phil Frank, EAS & Cornell Master Beekeeper, Co-Author of the Photo Book "Hive Tour" |
| 12 Noon | Lunch Break | |
| 1:00 PM | "Comb and Nest Architecture" | Grai St. Clair Rice, Writer, Artist, Organic Beekeeper |
| 2:00 PM | "The intricate Process of Honey Bee Swarming" | Gard W. Otis, Professor Emeritus, University of Guelp |
| 2:50 PM | Break | |
| 3:05 PM | "Honey bees in the Garden: A Dance with Evolution" | Grai St. Clair Rice, Writer, Artist, Organic Beekeeper |
| 4:00 PM | Closing Questions and Answers. | Mary Laura Fitzgerald, MSBA President |