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Dear B-Liners,
REARING QUALITY QUEENS
The Ontario Beekeepers' Association is offering a special Tech-Transfer Course.
In recent years, Ontario beekeepers have adopted breeding mite resistant honey bees as a long
term solution to the parasitic mites in bee colonies. It is time to reinforce this strategy in the light
of discovering Apistan-resistant varroa mites in the USA, and the need for integrating the resistant
bee stocks to commercial bee colonies to control the parasitic mites and bee diseases. Adopting
the integrated parasitic mite management program will help to keep healthy bees, reduce the use
of chemicals in bee colonies, and reduce the chance of developing resistance by mites to
pesticides.
The focus of this course is rearing RESISTANT QUALITY QUEENS and MARKETING OF
THESE QUEENS. What makes or breaks a great queen?
The following subjects will be addressed:
- Rearing and Production of quality queens.
- Improved methods for mating, storage, nucs, shipping and introducing queens.
- Evaluation, breeding and maintenance of selected mite resistant-hygienic bee stocks.
- Possible solutions to Apistan-resistant Varroa mites and integrated Parasitic Mite
Management in queen producing operations.
- Marketing of queens and nucs.
- Panel discussion for queen quality and related subjects of
breeding and augmentation of mite resistant bees in commercial bee operations in Ontario.
Course instructors are:
- Barry Davies - Buckfast breeder in Ontario
- Sue Coby - The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio; Instrumental insemenation and queen
rearing and breeding expert. New World Carniolan breeder
- Doug McRory - Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs
- Medhat Nasr - Ontario Beekeepers' Association
- Gard Otis - University of Guelph
- Tibor Szabo - Ontario Beekeepers' Association
Dates: March 25 & March 26, 1998
Place: Holiday Inn, 601 Scottsdale Road, Guelph, Ontario, Oakwood A Room. The Holiday Inn
is located at Stone Road and Scottsdale, just east of the Hanlon Expressway, (Hwy 6).
Tentative Schedule
March 25, 1998:
8:30 am Registration
9:00 am Welcome - Annette Anderson, Crop Technology, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture,
Food & Rural Affairs
9:10 am Rearing & Production of Quality Queens - Sue Coby, The
Ohio State University
10:00 am Coffee Break
10:30 am Importance of Bee Genetics in Selection and Breeding of Honey Bees
Gard Otis, University of Guelph
11:15 am Evaluation, Selection and Breeding of Quality Queens
Medhat Nasr, Ontario Beekeepers' Association
12:00 pm LUNCH
1:30 pm Mechanisms for Varroa Resistance in the European Honey
bees
Gard Otis, University of Guelph
2:15 pm Update of 1998 USA Queen Symposium at Colorado Springs
Meeting
Medhat Nasr and Sue Coby
3:00 pm Coffee Break
3:30 pm Economical Mass Production of Quality Queens and Mating Nucs
Tibor Szabo, Ontario Beekeepers' Association
4:15 pm Integration of Mite Resistant Stocks in Commercial Bee
Operations
Doug McRory, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food & Rural Affairs
6:00 pm Cash Bar
6:30 pm Banquet Dinner
8:00 pm African Bees In Costa Rica - followed by a question period
Tibor Szabo, Ontario Beekeepers' Association
March 26, 1998:
9:00 am Improved Methods for Mating, Storage, Shipping and Introducing Queens
Sue Coby, The Ohio State University
10:00 am Coffee Break
10:30 am What Do You Expect From Quality Queens?
Tibor Szabo, Ontario Beekeepers' Association
11:15 am Management of Apistan-Resistant Mites in Queen Producing Operations
Medhat Nasr, Ontario Beekeepers' Association
12:00 pm Lunch
1:30 pm Marketing Queens
Barry Davies, Buckfast Breeder in Ontario
2:15 pm Panel Discussion
Doug McRory, Moderator
3:00 pm Coffee Break
3:30 pm Business Meeting for the Ontario Bee Breeders Association
ACCOMMODATIONS IN GUELPH
SPECIAL RATE AT THE HOLIDAY INN, 601 Scottsdale Drive, 1-800-HOLIDAY or
519-836- 0231 (direct), Quote Code BEE for $93.00 rate. A block of rooms will be held until
February 28th.
DAYS INN, 785 Gordon Street, 519-822-9112
COLLEGE INN, 716 Gordon Street, 519-836-1240
DESERT INN, 63 Woodlawn Way, 519-836-4351
COMFORT INN (Journey's End Motel), 480 Silvercreek Pkwy, 519-763-1900
OPEN TO EVERYONE - YOU MUST REGISTER IN ADVANCE
REGISTRATION FORM
Send in the following form with your cheque payable to the Ontario Beekeepers' Association. It
must be post marked no later than March 11, 1998. Please, no post dated cheques. Mail to:
Ontario Beekeepers' Association
Bayfield, Ontario N0M 1G0
Name:_______________________________________________________________________
Address:______________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________
Postal Code
Phone: _____________________________________
Area Code
Registration Fee for the Two-day Course - OBA Member * $150.00
(March 25th & 26th) is: - Non Member * $190.00
* Includes lunch both days, banquet dinner, all coffee breaks and
hand out materials.
Registration for Wednesday only (March 25th) is: OBA Member ** $ 90.00
Non Member ** $110.00
** Includes lunch, banquet dinner, two coffee breaks and hand out materials.
Registration for Thursday only (March 26th) is: OBA Member *** $ 60.00
Non Member *** $ 80.00
*** Includes lunch, two coffee breaks and hand out materials.
Amount of money enclosed (all fees include GST) $
____________
Receipts will be handed out at the course.
Note: New book "Queen Rearing" by Laidlaw & Page (published Feb '98)
used as reference will be available at the meeting for purchase.
For more information contact:
Pat Westlake, OBA Business Administrator
519-565-2622 phone
519-565-5452 fax
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