Speakers will present via zoom, so everyone will also have the option of attending via zoom if you do not wish to attend in person. Doors will open at 6:45pm, snacks will be shared and a give away will be drawn.

Mini Presentation:

Valerie Hawthorne will be informing us about honey shows

Main Topic:

Parasitic mites of honey bees: Varroa for now, but Tropilaelaps for the future?

Dr. Geoff Williams is an Associate Professor at Auburn University, where he directs the university’s Bee Center. Geoff received an undergraduate degree in animal biology at the University of Alberta (Canada), and then studied Nosema ceranae biology and management for his Ph.D. at Dalhousie University (Canada). He then jumped across the Atlantic to work on honey bee pesticide-parasite interactions and tropilaelaps mites at the University of Bern (Switzerland) and Chiang Mai University (Thailand) for six years as a research scientist. Geoff joined Auburn in late 2016; he is currently Vice President of the global honey bee association COLOSS, an apiculture subject editor for the Journal of Economic Entomology, and coordinator of the U.S. Beekeeping Survey.