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MSBA Spring 2022 Meeting

• 2022 June 11 MEETING

  WHERE: RECORDING AVAILABLE!

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  This meeting will be BOTH in-person and Zoom.
  In-person attendees must continuously wear a face mask covering mouth and nose [UMD Mask Policy].

  GUEST SPEAKERS	KAMON REYNOLDS and Dr. LEWIS BARTLETT
  PHYSICAL LOCATION	University of Maryland Plant Sciences Building, Room 1140 (the auditorium) 4291 Fieldhouse Dr, College Park, MD 20742
  VIRTUAL LOCATION	Zoom (CLICK HERE when time to attend) Optional phone-in info (audio only) ph. 1-301-715-8592. Meeting ID: 951 3660 9719 One tap mobile: +13017158592,,95136609719#
  TIME	9AM - 4PM  (Doors open at 8:30 AM)
  	DOOR PRIZES Today for Zoom and In-Person Attendees!!!!

   

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  • Kamon Reynolds will present two talks:
    • Queen Rearing for the Small Apiary: LEARN: How to easily raise the best queens you have ever had from a 5 frame nuc.
    • Great Queens, Dead Mites, and Good Nutrition. (A class about our approach to beekeeping) LEARN: what honey bees need to thrive and what you can do as a beekeeper to help them do just that!

  • Dr. Lewis Bartlett will also present two talks:
    • Problems and Promises of Darwinian Beekeeping
      Breeding better bees remains a tantalizing and elusive goal of current US and EU beekeeping communities. Evolution is however fickle, and there are lessons we can learn from evolutionary biology to better avoid pitfalls in our bee breeding and target how we can help future bee breeds to thrive in face of Varroa and other threats. I’ll cover my own thoughts as an evolutionary biologist on how we can breed better bees, and the outcomes we’ll have to choose between.
    • How do bees wash their hands? Hydrogen peroxide in the hive.
      Bees work very hard to try and keep their hive clean and disease free, especially when it comes to protecting their precious and vulnerable larvae. In this lecture, we’ll cover some of the unique biology honey bees have that helps them protect against bugs both small and big, and new research updates from my lab group on how honey works so well as an antimicrobial.

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  BIOS:

  

  KAMON REYNOLDS is founder of the extremely successful Hive Live Conference  https://www.hivelifeconference.com/ , founder of Tennessee's Bees and has been keeping bees in North Central Tennessee for 18 years.
  Kamon keeps over 300 Hives, with his wife Laurel, fulltime. Kamon and Laurel also have filmed hundreds of educational videos to help new and veteran beekeepers around the world keep their bees successfully. Though Kamon does 99.9% of the talking, Laurel has been Beekeeping for 13 years, was a Beekeeper prior to their marriage, and is an invaluable part of their Business Tennessee’s Bees LLC. Tennessee’s Bees specializes in quality Bee Genetics, Pure Tennessee Honey, and Honeybee Education. Their videos can be found on https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkoAuqRak
  Kamon currently has 4.7 thousand followers on Facebook and 45.8K subscribers on YouTUBE. 

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  Dr. LEWIS BARTLETT is a post-doctoral fellow at the UGA Honey Bee Program and Odum School of Ecology working at the intersection of infectious disease biology and beekeeping. His research focuses on how infectious diseases and parasites cause so much harm to honey bees and how we can help honey bees defend themselves. Lewis began keeping bees ten years ago as part of scientific research and as a hobbyist in the UK before moving to America in 2016. He has worked with scientists across the UK, Europe, and USA, on topics including the risk to beekeeping from mosquito control, how sugar feed quality impacts colony immunity, the effects of crowding or moving honey bees on their viral infections, and on testing novel control techniques for pests like Varroa and Small Hive Beetles. His research goals are to inform solutions to managing honeybee diseases and pests that are effective and economically viable, always with an ear toward experiences and insights from beekeepers.

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  JOIN OUR MEETING - LEARN SOMETHING NEW!

  AGENDA

  9:00 AM	Welcome	Fred Smith, MSBA President
  9:15 AM	Apiary Inspectors Report [VIA ZOOM]	Cybil Preston, Chief MD Apiary Inspector
  9:30 AM	How do bees wash their hands? Hydrogen peroxide in the hive [IN PERSON]	Dr. Lewis Bartlett, University of Georgia Honey Bee Program and Odum School of Ecology
  10:30 AM	Great Queens, Dead Mites, and Good Nutrition: what honey bees need to thrive [IN PERSON]	Kamon Reynolds, Founder, Hive Live Conference and "Tennessee's Bees"
  11:30AM	UMD Bee Squad Update [IN PERSON]	Mark Dykes, University of Maryland
  12 Noon	Lunch
  1:00 PM	The Age of Bees: Longevity, why it matters, and colony loss [VIA ZOOM]	Anthony Nearman, PhD Candidate, vanEngelsdorp Bee Lab/UMD
  2:00 PM	Queen Rearing for the Small Apiary [IN PERSON]	Kamon Reynolds, Founder, Hive Live Conference and "Tennessee's Bees"
  3:00 PM	Problems and Promises of Darwinian Beekeeping [IN PERSON]	Dr. Lewis Bartlett, University of Georgia Honey Bee Program and Odum School of Ecology
  4:00 PM	Closing Panel: Keynotes and Senior Beekeepers Take Your Questions [IN PERSON]	Kamon Reynolds, Dr. Lewis Bartlett, Mark Dykes, Fred Smith, MaryLaura Fitzgerald
  4:30 PM	Meeting close	Fred Smith, MSBA President

  

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