Hello,

On Saturday March 12th, the Pennsylvania State Beekeepers Association
will be holding seminar on current varroa treatment options, entitled
Living With Varroa.  The all day event is being hosted by the Lehigh
Valley Beekeepers Association and is located at the Lehigh Carbon
Community College in Schnecksville, PA.  Schnecksville is approximately
5 miles north (on rt. 309) of Allentown, PA in the Lehigh Valley.  It is
easily accessible from Interstates 78 or 476 via routes 22 and 309.

Speakers will include:
Maryann Frazer, Penn State University,
Mike Stanghellini, Rutgers University,
Dennis Keeney, PA Beekeeper and Queen Breeder
Jim Bobb & Bill Mondjack, PA Beekeepers and PSBA officers.

Registration fee is $20 in advance, by March 1, (sorry for short notice)
or $25 at the door.  There will be an optional lunch provided for an
additional $8.  Mail registration fee and lunch payment to:

        Yvonne Crimbring
        RD1 Box 315
        Canton, PA  17724

For more information contact:
        Jim Bobb (610) 584-6778         [log in to unmask]
Or      Bill Mondjack (610) 264-0494    [log in to unmask]

Hope to see you there.

Ron

Ron Bogansky
Kutztown, (eastern) PA, USA



Living With Varroa; Our Current Treatment Options
                                Date: March 12, 2005

9:00    Introduction - Bill Mondjack
  Where are we, where do we want to be and how do we get there?

9:20 Varroa - Our #1 Enemy - Maryann Frazier
        Biology and Background
        Viruses
        Population growth - bees and mites
        Environmental factors

        Monitoring Mite Levels -
                Checking drone brood
                Natural drop
                Sugar roll and ether rolls

10:00 Treatment Options
          Background and Research - Mike Stanghellini

        Chemicals
Apistan (Fluvalinate)
                CheckMite (Coumaphos)
                        The "Pettis test"

        Biopesticides
                Apilife VAR (Thymol)
                Sucrocide (Sucrose Octanoate Esters)
                Formic Acid
                ApiGuard
                Cinnamon oil

11:00 Application - Jim Bobb and Bill Mondjack
                Apilife VAR (Thymol) - (Bill)
                Sucrocide (Sucrose Octanoate Esters) - (Bill)
                Formic Acid - (Jim)

12:00 - 1:00 Lunch - Available as an option on or off campus.



1:00    Alternate treatments; cultural controls - Speakers T.B.A.
                        Small cell size
                        Break in brood cycle- Queen caging
                        Use of screened bottom boards

                        Treatments in the news -
                                Fungus - Metarhizium anisopliae

1:30    Varroa resistant stock - Dennis Keeney

                                Hygienic, SMR and Russian stock
                                Selecting from your own stock
                                Purchasing hygienic queens
                                Known breeders/suppliers of such queens

2:30 Evaluating Treatments - Maryann Frazier

3:00 - 4:00 Roundtable Discussion
                Bill Mondjack
                Jim Bobb
                Dennis Keeney
                    Mike Stanghellini (Rutgers Univ.)
                Maryann Frazier (Penn. State Univ.)

Date: March 12, 2005
Place: Lehigh Carbon Community College,
4525 Education Park Dr., Schnecksville, PA 18078
Room #113 & #115 in Administrative Building
COST: Advance registration - $20.00/person. Lunch, optional
           At the door - $25.00
Registration deadline: March 1, 2005
Send remittance to: Yvonne Crimbring, RD 1  Box 315, Canton, PA 17724

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