We meet on the 2nd Monday of the month at 7:00 PM in Towne Hall, a wing of Towne Bank located at 137 Mt. Pleasant Rd.,Chesapeake, VA 23322. The public is invited to join us for socializing and the meeting. Meeting Schedule
Our mission includes:
VSBA Meeting June 21 & 22, 2013
The meeting will be held at Greenbrier Middle School in Chesapeake, VA. Click here for written directions. VA Master Beekeeper Program written and practical testing is scheduled for this meeting. Click here for an application to the Virginia Master Beekeeper Program. PRELIMINARY AGENDA
Friday, June 21 Registration - 12:00pm - 1:00pm Meeting 1:00pm - 5:00pm Opening Remarks Dennis Van Engelsdorp: Topic To Be Announced Dr. Wyatt Mangum: "Colony Usurpation: Out with Your Queen, in with Theirs"
Dennis Van Engelsdorp: Topic To Be Announced Dr. Troy Anderson: "The Decline of Honey Bees in Virginia: Are Agrochemical Exposures Affecting Colony Health?" Saturday, June 22 Registration - 8:00am - 8:45am Meeting 8:45am - 5:15pm Opening Remarks Dr. Buddy Marterre: "Bee Stings: Immunology, Allergy, and Treatment" Keith Tignor: State Apiarist Report Dr. Buddy Marterre: "Why Treat for Varroa?" Business Meeting
Lunch – on your own VA Master Beekeeper Program update Breakout sessions: Dr. Wyatt Mangum – Top Bar Beekeeping: Financially sustainable Beekeepers Guild of Southeast Virginia – Meadmaking workshops Norfolk Beekeepers – Bee Vacuum building workshops Participating vendors include:
Wyatt Mangum
Heywood Honey (Honey-B-Healthy, soaps) Beetle Jail Sustainable Honeybee Program C & H Books Frank & Linda Wyatt SEVENTH in a series of updates about the Eastern Apicultural Society's Annual Conference and Short Course in 2013
Less than two months away! Pennsylvania beekeepers will welcome you warmly! See you in August! P.S. If you can't get enuff of that funky BEE stuff, check out the WESTERN APICULTURAL SOCIETY'S MEETING!! Last Updated (Monday, 17 June 2013 16:11) |
Six years ago the U.S. Senate's unanimous approval and designation of a week in June as "National Pollinator Week" marked a necessary step toward addressing the urgent issue of declining pollinator populations. Pollinator Week has now grown to be an international celebration of the valuable ecosystem services provided by bees, birds, butterflies, bats and beetles. Pollinating animals, including bees, birds, butterflies, bats, beetles and others, are vital to our delicate ecosystem, supporting terrestrial wildlife, providing healthy watershed, and more. Therefore, Pollinator Week is a week to get the importance of pollinators' message out to as many people as possible. Pollinators positively effect all our lives- let's SAVE them and CELEBRATE them! Last Updated (Monday, 17 June 2013 16:32) European Union Bans Neonicotinoids
On April 29, 2013, EU Member States did not reach a qualified majority either in favor or against a two-year ban on three neonicotinoids. Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Ireland, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, and Sweden voted in favor of the ban and Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, and the UK voted against the ban. Finland Greece and Lithuania abstained. The decision then fell to the European Commission which upheld the ban. Tonio Borg, Health and Consumer Commissioner, said: "Although a majority of Member States now supports our proposal, the necessary qualified majority was not reached. The decision now lies with the Commission. Since our proposal is based on a number of risks to bee health identified by the European Food Safety Authority, the Commission will go ahead with its text in the coming weeks." To conclude: "I pledge to do my utmost to ensure that our bees, which are so vital to our ecosystem and contribute over €22 billion annually to European agriculture, are protected." Effective 1 December 2013, the use of clothianidin, imidacloprid and thiametoxam for seed treatment, soil application of granules and foliar treatment on bee attractive plants and cereals is prohibited in the 27 EU countries. In addition, the remaining authorized uses are available only to professionals. The exceptions are bee-attractive crops in greenhouses or crops past their flowering stage in fields. Bayer CropScience, the German manufacturer of clothianidin and imidacloprid, and Swiss-based Syngenta, which produces thiamethoxam, lobbied intensely in opposition to the ban. The companies claim that the restrictions will harm food production. They urged the EC to instead address diseases and habitat loss as the reasons for declining bee health. The European Food Safety Authority backed the ban, citing a study which found that bees face "high acute risks" from dust in planting and residue in the pollen and nectar of several crops. The 2-year ban is a landmark victory for millions of environmentalists. Andrew Pendleton, head of campaigns for Friends of the Earth England, Wales and Northern Ireland said, "This decision is a significant victory for common sense and our beleaguered bee populations. Restricting the use of these pesticides could be an historic milestone on the road to recovery for these crucial pollinators. Ministers must now help farmers to grow and protect crops, but without relying so heavily on chemicals – especially those linked to bee decline." Last Updated (Wednesday, 01 May 2013 15:34) |
Honey Bee Health Summit. Sponsored by Project Apis m, The Honey bee Advisory Council, and Monsanto. Chesterfield, MO.
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