If you know veterinarians who want to provide services to bees and beekeepers in Montana or adjacent/nearby states, please let them know that the Montana Veterinarian Medical Association Meeting winter meeting in Bozeman, next week, will provide two training programs.
On Friday, Jan 25, 8-10 a.m., Alyssa Piccolimini, the Montana State Entomologist and Apiculturist, and I will provide training specific to bees and beekeepers in western states. We will be there all of Friday to meet with veterinarians.
Saturday afternoon, the MTVMA between 3:30 and 5 pm will conduct a training program based on the APHIS Module 30: The Role of Veterinarians in Honey Bee Health.
The MTVMA assures me that licensed veterinarians from other states are welcome to register and attend.The MTVMA's website is at www.mtvma.org.
All of the available training courses (bees and other topics) for their winter meeting are described at:
https://www.mtvma.org/index.php?option=com_mc&view=mc&mcid=72&eventId=542711&orgId=mtvma
The meetings are Friday, January 25 and Saturday, January 26 at the Best Western Plus Gran Tree in Bozeman
Here are the Descriptions of the two bee training programs. The APHIS Module results in a Certificate of Completion.
Friday, 8-10 am.
Veterinarians for Western Beekeepers: Safely Examine Bee Colonies, Identify Bee Pests and Diseases, and Appropriate Diagnostics for Writing VFDs and Prescriptions:
Bees Need Veterinarians, not simply because FDA now requires a licensed veterinarian to prescribe or issue a VFD order for antibiotics to treat the foul broods of bees, but because bee colonies are subject to a variety of: (1) Pests, ranging from bears and skunks to predatory mites, bee louses, wax moths and small hive beetles, and (2) Diseases, including the bacterial foul broods, as well as fungal chalkbrood, microsporidian parasites, parasitic mite syndrome, and other diseases. Western veterinarians need to establish Veterinary-Client relationships with beekeepers that may have one or a few backyard bee colonies and professional beekeepers who manage hundreds, thousands, even as many as 80,000 or more bee colonies. Setting up VCPRs, meeting the needs of hobby beekeepers versus professional beekeepers, being able to safely work and exam bees in an urban backyard, apiaries with 20 to 30 colonies, or stockpile yards with thousands of colonies, and being able to identify and diagnose bee pests, diseases, and overall colony health are skills that we will introduce and illustrate. Then, in the summer of 2020, we will conduct a 'wet-lab' for hands on use of microscopes to examine bee samples for fungal and microsporidian agents of disease, various methods to screen for other disease organisms including virus-screening, and we will provide a field-camp to demonstrate how to safely inspect bee colonies at the University of Montana research and instructional apiary in Missoula. Jerry Bromenshenk, PhD
Saturday, January 26, 3:30 – 5:00 pm
APHIS Module 30: The Role of Veterinarians in Honey Bee Health
This module provides information on basic honey bee biology, bee keeping, communications with bee keepers, and relevant honey bee diseases and conditions. and appropriate antimicrobial use in honey bees. The module also focuses on the role of veterinarians related to appropriate antimicrobial use, issuance of prescriptions and VFDs in honey bees. Lastly, it describes roles of veterinarians related to development of plans for parasite management and development of protocols for disease detection and control.
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