Please post the following notice.  If you have any questions or need more
information, please contact me.

Feeding the Bees: Designing and Creating Honeybee Forage Systems.

If you want honey, you must support your bees.  Come to the Arnold
Arboretum for a slide-illustrated lecture to learn what it is the honeybee
needs to sustain honey production throughout the growing season.  Dr.
George Ayers, a specialist in the development of honeybee-foraging systems,
will present an overview of his work and philosophy and suggest beneficial
food sources for bees (butterflies and hummingbirds, too.)

Dr. George Ayers is a faculty member of the Department of Entomology at
Michigan State University.  His research specialty is the development of
honeybee-foraging systems.  During the summer of 2000, he will be at the
Arnold Arboretum to identify members of the genus Tilia that are better
than average honey producers.  Once identified, these trees will play an
important role in his bee-foraging systems, which he is developing as
unusual sustainable sugar production systems.  Dr. Ayers writes a column
for the American Bee Journal entitled "The Other Side of Beekeeping," which
is dedicated to the topic of honey plants.

Fee: $10
Wednesday, June 28/ 7:00-8:00 pm
Hunnewell Building
Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130




To register, call the Arnold Arboretum at 617-524-1718, ext. 162.


Pamela Thompson
Adult Education Coordinator
Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University
125 Arborway
Jamaica Plain, MA  02130
phone: 617-524-1718, ext. 162
fax: 617-524-1418