Kelowna, 2003 AGM Educational Day - Saturday October 25
Chaired by Ed Nowek, Vernon, B.C.
8:30 - 9:30 Steve Sheppard (Thurber Chair of Apiculture, Associate Professor of Entomology, WSU) The WSU-Cornell Honey Bee Breeding Program: implementation of family level selection
9:30 10:15 Jamie Strange - (MSc, current PhD Candidate in Entomology, WSU) Sucrose octanoate esters for control of V. destructor and the development of an IPM program for Northwest Beekeeping
10:15 - 10:45 Coffee Break
10:25 - 10:45 Question & Answer Period with Steve Sheppard / Jamie Strang
10:45 - 11:1 5 Lionel Garnery - (visiting assistant professor from Versailles University, France) Specialist in honey bee population genetics and development of genetic conservatories of bees
11:15 11:45
Lance Cuthill
Bee Inspector Kootenay Region for the BC Ministry of Agriculture
Fluvalinate Resistance in the Kootenays - 2003 Update
11:45 - 12:30
Alison
Skinner
Tech-Transfer Specialist
Ontario Beekeepers' Association Guelph, Ont.
Breeding Parasitic Mite Resistant Honey Bees
12:30 - 1:30
Lunch -
Catered
Guest Presentation, Lance Cuthill
Tales of a Bee Inspector
1:30 - 2:15 Alison Skinner
2:15 - 3:00 Hossein Yeganeh-Rad
3:00 - 3:30 Coffee Break
3:10 - 3:30 Question & Answer Period - Hossein Yeganeh-Rad
3:30 - 4:00 Jay Wagner Commercial Beekeeper, B.C. Peace Country
Exorsect Mites Die For It !
4:00 - 5:00 National Coordinator & Director of Canadian Honey Council
Heather Clay - IPM The Big Picture
John Pederson CHC Restructuring