Delaware Ag Week  January 7 - 12, 2008

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Bees and Vine Crop Pollination Workshop

 Tuesday, January 8, 2008     1:00 p.m. – 4:00p.m.     Dover Building

Pre-Registration Requested, call Bonnie MacCulloch, 302-353-6243 or bmacculloch@gmail.com

 

1:00 p.m. - 1:05 p.m.

Introduction

Faith Kuehn, Plant Industries Administrator, Delaware Department of Agriculture

 

1:05 p.m. - 1:25 p.m.

Bumblebees, Digger Bees, and Carpenter Bees

Dewey Caron, Extension Entomologist, University of Delaware

Michael Embrey, Extension Apiculturalist, Wye Research and Education Center

 

1:25 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.

Squash Bee

Roberta Glatz, New York Master Beekeeper

 

1:45 p.m. - 2:05 p.m.

Honey Bees in Vine Crop Pollination

Bill Troup, Maryland Master Beekeeper

 

2:05 p.m. - 2:25 p.m.

Native Bees as Watermelon Pollinators

Rachael Winfree, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University

 

2:25 p.m.—2:45 p.m.

Summary of 2006-07 Native Bee Sampling

Heather Harmon, Entomologist, Delaware Department of Agriculture

 

2:45 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Pesticide Management and Bee Conservation

Robert Mitchell, Delaware State Apiarist

 

3:00 p.m.                               BREAK

 

3:10 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Farm Conservation Management for Bees

Matt Sarver, Sarver Ecological Consultants

 

3:30 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.

Trap Nesting Demonstrations

Nancy Troup, Maryland Master Beekeeper

 

3:45 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Sign-Up for Interest in Conservation Management Practices

Faith Kuehn, Plant Industries Administrator, Delaware Department of

Agriculture

 

4:00 p.m.                               ADJOURN

Session Summary:

DE Pesticide Certification Credits:  3

MD Pesticide Certification  Credits:  0

DE Nutrient Management Credits:  0

Certified Crop Consultant Credits:  2