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EAS 2004 Basic Short Course Details
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BASIC COURSE - 6 or fewer hives or years
| MONDAY | |
|---|---|
| A = Application | |
| 8:30 am | Applying The Basics Of Bee Biology |
| Clarence Collison, Mississippi State Univ | |
| 9:30 am | Analyzing The Best Bee/Apiary Location |
| Dewey Caron, Univ of Delaware | |
| 10:00 am | Break (Individual Q & A) |
| B = Beekeeping through the season | |
| 10:30 am | Bees In Fall & Winter |
| John Skinner, Univ of Tennessee | |
| 11:15 am | Beekeeping In The Spring |
| Maryann Frazier, Penn State Univ. | |
| 12:00 pm | Lunch |
| 1:00 pm | Bee Products; All You Need To Know |
| Mike Stangellini, Rutgers Univ | |
| 2:00 pm | Bee Products Lab |
| Ann Harman, Master Beekeeper & Mike Stangellini | |
| 2:30 pm | Break (Get ready for apiary visit) |
| C = Coping | |
| 3:00 pm | Coping In The Apiary |
| Bill Troup, EAS Master Beekeeper, Mike Stangellini, Cliff Sunflower &
Rick Cooper How to open & inspect, Seasonal management, Removing honey, Finding/ Evaluating Queens | |
| MONDAY EVENING (joint session with Advanced Course) | |
| 7:00 pm | ABC’s (con’t) |
| 9:00 pm | What English Beekeepers Can Teach Us |
| Maryann Frazier, Penn State Univ Q & A – Panel of EXPERTS! Dewey Caron, Maryann Frazier, Clarence Collison & others | |
| TUESDAY | |
| ABC’s OF BEEKEEPING (con’t) A = Applying | |
| 8:30 am | Applied Bee Biology Of The Big Three Challenges: |
| Evaluating Queens – Clarence Collison Halting Swarming – Dewey Caron Winter Success – Jim Tew, OH State Univ | |
| 10:00 am | Break (get ready for apiary visit) |
| B = Bee Yard | |
| 10:30 am | In The Apiary |
| Bill Troup, Dennis vanEngelsdorp, PA State Apiarist
and Rick Cooper Looking for and solving problems, Finding & Marking queens, Assessing colony strength, & potential to swarm/produce honey/overwinter | |
| 12:00 pm | Lunch |
| C = Challenges | |
| 1:15 pm | Challenges To Solve – Bee Mites |
| Jennifer Berry, Univ of Georgia | |
| 1:45 pm | Apiary Inspect: Does it Work? |
| Dennis vanEngelsdorp | |
| 2:30 pm | Break (Individual Q & A) |
| 3:00 pm | ABC’s Of Marketing Bee Products? |
| Kim Flottum, EAS Board Chairman | |
| 4:00 pm | Agricultural Pesticides & Bees |
| Mike Stangellini | |
| TUESDAY EVENING SOCIAL (both courses) | |
| WEDNESDAY (joint session - both courses) | |
| A = Applying new research to old problems | |
| 8:30 am | What IPM Means To My Beekeeping |
| Tom Webster, Kentucky State Univ | |
| 9:00 am | Commercial Pollination & Colony Stress |
| Mike Stangellini, Rutgers Univ, NJ | |
| B = Bees are my business….. and I have fun too… | |
| 9:30 am | The Biggest Business - Almond Pollination |
| Joe Traynor, Bakersfield, CA | |
| 10:00 am | Break |
| C = Challenges … will I bee ready to advance in next few years years? | |
| 10:30 am | How To Ensure Better Queens |
| Dennis Keeney, PA queen breeder/beekeeper | |
| 11:00 am | What The Crystal Ball Says… |
| Jeff Pettis, USDA, Beltsville, MD | |
| 11:45 am | Wrapup & Evaluation |
| Dewey Caron & Ann Harman | |