Seminar Offers Education On Beekeeping Practices

ROUND ROCK, TX — The Austin Beekeepers Association, educating people of all experience in sustainable bee husbandry and providing funding for the Texas A&M Honey Bee Lab, TBA Honey Queens Program and the Texas Master Beekeepers Program, will host a day-long seminar offering five different educational presentations running concurrently throughout the day.

The Austin Area Beekeeping Seminar 2020 will include a full-day track of beginner classes for people with little or no experience keeping bees, but who are interested in learning a foundation of beekeeping essentials. Also included, (28) 50-minute classes for intermediate and advanced beekeepers to choose from, with non-beginner classes such as:

• How a 70’s Pole Barn Became a Honey House-Pamela Yeamens
• Markets and Marketing-Blake Shook
• Annual Management-Robin Sliva
• Beekeeping 201-Blake Shook
• Bees As Your Ag Qualifer- Dennis Herbert
• Honeybee Diseases and Pests -Terry Spencer
• Honey Bee Biology-Pierre Lau
• Nutrition Management for Robust Populations-Lance Wilson
• Split Decisions-Increase Made Easy-Ryan Giesecke
• Queen Management-Dr. Juliana Rangel
• Reproductive Biology -Dr. Juliana Rangel
• The Management of Honey Crystallization-Tara Chapman
• Africanized Bees-Ryan Giesecke
• Swarm Capture Techniques-John Swan
• Live Bee Removals from Structures- John Swan
• Honey Bee Pheromones and Communications-Pierre Lau
• Effective Varroa Management through IPM-Lance Wilson
• Managing Varroa Mites-Mary Reed
• Mite Monitoring-Mary Reed
• Honey Label and Marketing- James and Chari Elam
• Fun with Wax (hands on workshop)-Dodie Stillman
• Bees As Your Ag. Qualifier-Dennis Herbert
• Top Bar Management -1-Brandon Fehrenkamp
• Top Bar Management-2 Brandon Fehrenkamp
• Effective Swarm Control-Robin Sliva
• Honey Regulations and Bottling Requirements (Texas)- James and Chari Elam
• Honey Bee Nutritional Ecology-Pierre Lau
• The 15 most important Things to Know in Beekeeping-Blake Shook

Proceeds from this event will be used to promote sustainable beekeeping practices and lend support to the Texas A&M Honey Bee Lab, TBA Honey Queens Program, Texas Master Beekeepers Program. Registration begins at 8 a.m., and the first class begins promptly at 9 a.m.

EVENT DETAILS

Austin Area Beekeeping Seminar 2020

Friday, Jan. 3 at 9 a.m.

Austin Marriot North

2600 La Frontera Blvd, Round Rock, TX 78681

To register click HERE.

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