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Massachusetts Beekeeper's Association 2010 Field Day
Hosted by the Franklin County Beekeepers Association

Date & Time: June 26, 2010 Saturday. 9:30 to 3:30PM. Registration starts at 9:00 AM. Rain or shine event.
Location: UMASS Agronomy Farm, River Rd. South Deerfield, MA. 01373.
Registration: Free to all beekeepers. Lunch can be ordered by printing out the registration form below. Pre-registration is encouraged (even if not ordering lunch) to help planners anticipate attendance for the event.
Program: Demonstrations will focus on practical techniques for new and experienced beekeepers. Sessions will be approximately one hour in length, using live bees. Most will be scheduled twice during the day. Based on past Field Day experience, it is now a MBA rule that all attendees must wear a veil; presenters as well as observers. All those not complying do so at their own risk, and the MBA and Franklin County Bee Association are not to be held liable for injuries incurred.
Presenters & Topics: Schedule will be listed in the "Field Day Program" available at the registration table. Additional topics may be added on day of the event.

• Hive Inspection - Ken Warchol
• Swarming Prevention and Capture - Gus Skamarycz and Phil Young
• IPM/Varroa and Drones - Claire Desilets
• Feeding Honeybees - Mike Bayko
• Top Bar Hives - Christy Hemenway
• Keeping Bees without Treatments - Dean and Ramona Stiglitz
• Apitherapy - Ed Karle and Kelly Carpentier
• Using the Snelgrove Board - Roland Segnivy
• Queen Rearing - Dick Callahan PhD
• Successful Queen Introduction - Dan Conlon and Rick Intres
• Controling mites with Mite Away II and Apiguard - Roger Reid
• Question and Answer Session - State Beekeeper Panel

For directions, lunch registration and many more details, please download the registration form.

Massachusetts Beekeeper's Association Fall Meeting
Saturday, October 2nd, 2010
Knights of Columbus Hall, Leicester, MA
Hosted by the Worcester County Beekeepers Association

Joe Latshaw PhD will be our speaker for the fall meeting. Check out www.latshawapiaries.com for more information on Joe's work. He is an expert on instrumental insemination and honeybee genetics specifically as used in breeding programs.

Prior Presentations

Spring Meeting - April 7, 2007 Topsfield MA

Dr. Caron's powerpoint presentations are posted here

Fall and Winter in the Bee Hive
Colony Collapse Disorder

Fall Meeting - November 3, 2006

We had a great fall meeting on November 3, 2006, with Dann Purvis, Purvis Brothers Apiaries, and William M. (Bill) Coli, Ph.D., Dept of Plant, Soil and Insect Sciences, University of Massachusetts-Amherst. At the meeting, Evodia (Bee Bee Tree) seeds were handed out, but there was no "take home" information about them. A handout is now available that describes the tree, and how to plant the seeds.

Spring Meeting - April 3, 2004, Topsfield, MA

The powerpoint presentations used by our speakers at the Spring, 2004 meeting are posted here.

Diana Sammataro - 2004 Research Projects
Dan Conlon - Marketing

For additional information, please contact Dan Conlin at 413-665-4513, president@massbee.org.