10 : The Bee Craft Research Lectures FRIDAY AT THE NATIONAL HONEY SHOW
The Bee Craft Research Lectures
T
he fourth series of Bee Craft research lectures will take place at the National Honey Show on Friday 28 October 2016. Bee Craft is proud to support this programme which gives researchers the chance to present their work and results to a wider beekeeping audience. It also gives beekeepers a chance to learn what is being done to expand our knowledge of honey bees so that we might understand and
appreciate them better. The more we know about the bees’ activities and the problems they face, the more we can work with them for the benefit of us all. This year, the lectures will cover honey monitoring, foraging by honey bees and non-Apis bees, how environmental factors, such as diet, impact on their learning and memory, and integrated control of honey bee diseases. You are cordially invited to join us for these lectures. For those who cannot get to the National Honey Show, we plan to publish summaries in future issues of Bee Craft.
Jordan Ryder
Bee Craft Research Lectures at the National Honey Show, Friday 28 October 2016
10.00–11.00 Honey monitoring – Amr Sufian, University of Liverpool
11.15–12.15
Integrated control of honey bee diseases – Hasan Al Toufailia, University of Sussex 12.30–13.30
The influence of ozone on nectar and pollen quality – Daniel Stabler, University of Newcastle 13.45–14.45
Practical implications of nutrition in non-Apis bees – Jordan Ryder, Harper Adams University 15.00–16.00
Foraging preferences of honey bees – Laura Jones, National Botanic Garden of Wales Laura Jones Laura is a PhD researcher with the National Botanic Garden of
Wales and Bangor University, investigating honey bee foraging by using pollen DNA metabarcoding. The Botanic Garden offers a study site with a hyper-diverse floral
resource from which the bees can choose, all set within a National Nature Reserve. DNA metabarcoding of pollen provides a powerful method for tracking floral visitation.
By using this technique to characterise monthly honey samples, Laura can identify the plants the honey bees are visiting and compare this with the plant survey that records and maps which plants were in flower.
In comparing these two data sets, she can start to build a temporal and spatial picture of honey bee foraging.
www.bee-craft.com Apimondia Gold Medal for Popular Beekeeping Journals, 2007, 2013 and 2015 Jordan holds a BSc in zoology
from Hull University and an MSc in integrated pest management (IPM) from Harper Adams University. He is currently studying for a PhD at Harper Adams, his thesis title being: ‘The importance of nutrition for solitary bees and bumblebees: implications for stewardship and pesticides’. Because of the nature of working with bees and with the recent moratorium, he has spent time researching and becoming
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