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SUMMARY:Lecture: The Magic and Mystery of Drone Congregation Areas - with Stephen Fleming
DESCRIPTION:Drone Congregation Areas – the place to be or the last-chance saloon?\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\nFascinated by the idea that there might be specific meeting and mating places for drones and queens\, Stephen Fleming started looking for them around his apiaries but found one where he least expected. As he discovered more\, a pattern seemed to appear but it didn’t match findings in other parts of the world. What is going on? How can drones who do not live from one year to the next find the same locations year after year? How can queens who so rarely leave their nest find them? He still has more questions than answers but his fascination with drone congregation areas (DCAs) is undimmed and the thrill of discovering new ones undiminished. In his talk he will discuss his methods\, some prevailing ideas plus videos and audios of a few DCA discoveries. \n\n\n\nAbout the speaker \nStephen Fleming became a beekeeper in 1994 just as the varroa mite started to change British beekeeping and has seen the change of the public perception of the craft from eccentric pastime to enironmental sentinel. He became co-editor of Bee Craft magazine in January 2020. With a degree in land use\, beekeeping has kept him in touch with environmental issues throughout his career which has focussed on other subject areas. Today\, he has seven overwintering colonies across three apiaries ( including an observation hive in his home office) so that he can observe the fascinating diversity of honey bees in different habitats. He lives in north Hampshire\, in sight of Watership Down ­ – which just happens to be a fine example of a drone congregation area.
URL:https://waterfordbees.com/event/lecture-the-magic-and-mystery-of-drone-congregation-areas-with-stephen-fleming/
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SUMMARY:Lecture: European Foul Brood
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday May 5th\, 8pm\nEuropean Foulbrood\nDr Chris Palgrave BSc(Hons)\, BVM&S\, PhD\, FHEA\, FRCPath\, MRCVS\nChris graduated from the University of Edinburgh\, where he also intercalated a PhD in immunogenetics and\ncomparative pathology at the Roslin Institute. He worked as a practicing vet in the UK and USA before attending\nthe anatomic pathology residency program at North Carolina State University. Chris returned to the UK as a\nLecturer at the University of Edinburgh and has also held Senior Lectureships at the Universities of Bristol and\nSurrey. Chris spent two years at a diagnostic pathology laboratory in Bristol (Bridge Pathology) and is now\nVeterinary Anatomic Pathologist for IDEXX Laboratories Ltd. He has been with IDEXX since June 2018\, where\ntheir exclusive use of digital pathology allows him to work remotely. Chris has been keeping bees for several\nyears and currently has 10 colonies\, with plans to increase to 15 in the coming season. He has recently launched\na fledgling business\, Three Hares Honey\, from his home in rural Hampshire. \n  \nBook: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_dB38Yj3cRG-jdX5TQOPPqw
URL:https://waterfordbees.com/event/lecture-european-foul-brood/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20210506T190000
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Diagnosing Queen Problems with Prof. David Tarpy
DESCRIPTION:About this Event\n\n\nDiagnosing queen problems: is it the queen\, the colony\, both\, or neither?!\nPractical advice—based on empirical research—looking at different symptoms and attributing whether or not the problem is the queen’s fault. A lesson in showing how we blame the queen way more often than is actually her fault. \nDavid R Tarpy\nDavid Tarpy is a Professor of Entomology and the Extension Apiculturist at North Carolina State University since 2003. As Extension Apiculturist\, he maintains an apiculture web site dedicated to the dissemination of information and understanding of honey bees and their management\, spearheads numerous extension projects (such as the 2005 New Beekeeper Cost-sharing program that created hundreds of new beekeepers within the state)\, and launched the Beekeeper Education & Engagement System (BEES)—an exciting online learning resource for knowledge and understanding of bees and beekeeping. \nHis research interests focus on the biology and behaviour of honey bee queens in order to better improve the overall health of queens and their colonies. Specific research projects include understanding the effect of multiple mating on colony disease resistance\, using molecular methods to determine the genetic structure within honey bee colonies\, and the determining the regulation of reproduction at the individual and colony levels. His work has provided some of the best empirical evidence that multiple mating by queens confers multiple and significant benefits to colonies through increased genetic diversity of their nestmates\, particularly through increased tolerance to numerous diseases. More recently\, his lab group has focused on the reproductive potential of commercially produced queens\, testing their genetic diversity and mating success in an effort to improve queen quality.
URL:https://waterfordbees.com/event/lecture-diagnosing-queen-problems-with-prof-david-tarpy/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20210506T190000
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Diagnosing Queen Problems
DESCRIPTION:Diagnosing queen problems with Professor David Tarpy\n\n\nIs it the queen\, the colony\, both\, or neither?! This talk is packed with practical advice based on empirical research\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\nDiagnosing queen problems: is it the queen\, the colony\, both\, or neither?!\nPractical advice—based on empirical research—looking at different symptoms and attributing whether or not the problem is the queen’s fault. A lesson in showing how we blame the queen way more often than is actually her fault. \nDavid R Tarpy\nDavid Tarpy is a Professor of Entomology and the Extension Apiculturist at North Carolina State University since 2003. As Extension Apiculturist\, he maintains an apiculture web site dedicated to the dissemination of information and understanding of honey bees and their management\, spearheads numerous extension projects (such as the 2005 New Beekeeper Cost-sharing program that created hundreds of new beekeepers within the state)\, and launched the Beekeeper Education & Engagement System (BEES)—an exciting online learning resource for knowledge and understanding of bees and beekeeping. \nHis research interests focus on the biology and behaviour of honey bee queens in order to better improve the overall health of queens and their colonies. Specific research projects include understanding the effect of multiple mating on colony disease resistance\, using molecular methods to determine the genetic structure within honey bee colonies\, and the determining the regulation of reproduction at the individual and colony levels. His work has provided some of the best empirical evidence that multiple mating by queens confers multiple and significant benefits to colonies through increased genetic diversity of their nestmates\, particularly through increased tolerance to numerous diseases. More recently\, his lab group has focused on the reproductive potential of commercially produced queens\, testing their genetic diversity and mating success in an effort to improve queen quality.
URL:https://waterfordbees.com/event/lecture-diagnosing-queen-problems/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20210510T190000
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SUMMARY:Committee Meeting
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URL:https://waterfordbees.com/event/committee-meeting-5/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20210513T203000
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Biosecurity & Apiculture
DESCRIPTION:Thursday May 13th\, 8pm\nBiosecurity & Apiculture\nNicolas Vidal Naquet DVM\, DIE d’apiculture-pathologie apicole\nNicolas graduated in veterinary medicine from the Alfort Veterinary Faculty in 1987. Since then he has worked\npractice (pets) in Paris and currently works as an emergency vet for VetoAdom\, an “at home” veterinary\nemergency service. In 2007\, he started to specialize in honeybee medicine and set up a veterinary blog dedicated\nto honeybee pathology www.apivet.eu. In 2008 he obtained a diploma in “Apiculture-pathologie apicole” from\nthe Veterinary Schools of Nantes (Oniris) & Alfort. In 2011\, he contributed to the book “Invertebrate Medicine”\nby Gregory A. Lewbart (Blackwell-Wiley)\, one of the most comprehensive works on invertebrate husbandry and\nveterinary care. Since 2009\, he has been a member of the beekeeping commission of the GTV (Groupement Technique Vétérinaire) and since January 2012\, he has also chaired the FVE (Federation of Veterinarians of Europe)\nworking group on honeybees. Nicolas also teaches honeybee biology and pathology to students in the Veterinary\nSchool of Alfort and to veterinarians in the Veterinary School of Oniris in Nantes \nBook: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/\nWN_icfhetV2QmmoOfRqS6NQ7w
URL:https://waterfordbees.com/event/lecture-biosecurity-apiculture/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20210520T203000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20210520T220000
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SUMMARY:Lecture: The Genetics of the Irish Honey Bee
DESCRIPTION:Thursday May 20th\, 8pm\nThe Genetics of the Irish Honey Bee\nJack Hassett BSc(Hons)\, PhD\nJack received his BSc. (Hons) in Pharmaceutical and Forensic Analysis from Limerick Institute of Technology\nin 2013. During his degree he studied a wide variety of scientific practices and has experience with an array\nof various instrumentation.\nFollowing the completion of his degree\, he undertook a Ph.D. in the “Genetic Analysis of the Irish Honeybee”\nunder the supervision of Dr Mike Geary and Dr Liz Moore. The aim of the research was to determine the\npopulation and level of hybridisation of the Irish Honeybee in Ireland. Through his research\, Jack has expertise\nin a diverse range of DNA extraction\, amplification and visualisation techniques.\nCurrently Jack is a lecturer at the Limerick Institute of Technology
URL:https://waterfordbees.com/event/lecture-the-genetics-of-the-irish-honey-bee/
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