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SUMMARY:DCBC Meeting - April 25\, 2017: Keeping Bees Healthy - Updates on Bee Research\, Management and MiteCheck
DESCRIPTION:Meeting Topic: \n\nKeeping Bees Healthy – Updates on Bee Research\, Management and MiteCheck\n\nPot Luck at 6:00:  Come and join your fellow bee keepers over a pot luck gathering as a prelude to our monthly meeting.  We are quite a varied group\, spread all over the county\, with such interesting stories to hear and share. Now’s the time! As a suggestion\, if your last name begins with A-J\, please bring hor’derves\, K-R bring side dish\, S-Z bring desserts. \nPassionate about helping honey bees?  Join the Door County Bee Keepers Club in welcoming Dr. Becky Masterman\, Assistant Extension Professor and Program Director for the UMN Bee Squad\, as she presents\, Keeping Bees Healthy: Updates on Bee Research\, Management and MiteCheck\,  Tuesday\, April 25 \, 6:30 pm\, at Crossroads at Big Creek\, 2041 Michigan St.\, Sturgeon Bay. \nDr. Becky Masterman will share bee management tips with the latest research from the UMN and other Bee Labs. Following  refreshments she  will also present  a short talk on the Varroa destructor mite. Becky will share why it is considered by many to be the number one threat to honey bees and how we can work together to address the issue. Public is welcome. Free Will donations accepted. \nDr. Becky Masterman has led the UMN Bee Squad program since 2013. She graduated from the UMN Twin Cities first with a BA (major in history\, minor in biology) and then obtained a Ph.D. in Entomology under the direction of Dr. Marla Spivak studying honey bee hygienic behavior and neurobiology. Rebecca leads a talented and growing Bee Squad team that provides bee outreach to beekeepers and the public in the greater Minneapolis-St. Paul area of Minnesota and beyond. \nAs the outreach arm of the Bee Lab\, the Bee Squad communicates the latest bee research to audiences that are passionate about helping bees.  Bee Squad has expanded their programs to include innovative ways to not just help bees\, but also help people. Now Bee Veterans\, Bee Arts and projects that train others who might not have had access to beekeeping are part of the Bee Squad. Additionally\, the Bee Squad has launched a national beekeeper citizen science project in an effort to fight the deadly mite pest\, Varroa destructor. Come learn more about bee research and the outreach mission of the Bee Squad! \nFor more information go to: \nwww.beesquad.umn.edu\nwww.mitecheck.com \n
URL:https://doorcountybeekeepersclub.org/event/dcbc-meeting-april-25-2017-keeping-bees-healthy-updates-on-bee-research-management-and-mitecheck/
LOCATION:Crossroads at Big Creek\, 2014 Michigan Street\, Sturgeon Bay\, WI\, 54235\, United States
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