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Bee Schools
Learn to keep bees! Info about 2008 Bee Schools is here.
2008 Spring Meeting
Saturday, March 29, 2008 Topsfield, MA
The Massachusetts Beekeepers Association will hold our spring meeting on Saturday, March 29,
2008 from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM in Topsfield, MA. Our featured speaker will be Tom Seeley, PhD,
of Cornell University, speaking on “House hunting by honey bees: a study of effective decision
making” and "Forest bees and Varroa mites" on a 4-year study of how the feral colonies in
Cornell's Arnot Forest are surviving despite infestations with Varroa mites.
We will again have a Silent Auction, so please bring something along (not necessarily bee-related) for folks to bid on. Hopefully, the queen producers will again provide us with certificates to be used for the raffle, and our local vendors will again be there for your buying pleasure. We are asking for contributions of Honey-baked goods for the morning break.
Speaker Bios
Dr. Thomas D. Seeley is a Professor in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior at
Cornell University, where he teaches courses in animal behavior and does research on honey
bee behavior.
He began keeping and studying bees in 1969, while a high school student, when he brought home a swarm that he had collected in a hastily constructed "hive." When a college student, he worked each summer in the laboratory of Dr. Roger A. Morse at Cornell, where he learned the craft of beekeeping and began probing the inner workings of the bee colony. Thoroughly intrigued by the smooth functioning of honey bee colonies, he went on to graduate school at Harvard University where he studied under two ant men (Drs. Bert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson) and began his research on bees in earnest.
His research focuses on the functional organization of honey bee colonies and has been summarized in the books The Wisdom of the Hive (1995, Harvard University Press), Honeybee Ecology (1985, Princeton University Press), and Swarm Intelligence in Bees (forthcoming, in 2009). All are wonderful reads for anyone interested in the biology of honey bees.
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Dave Simser, Barnstable County Entomologist
Dave has worked with insects in agriculture for over 30 years and has been researching deer
ticks and Lyme disease since 1998. His presentation will include biology and prevention of
tick bites and information about tick borne disease, especially Lyme disease.
Stay tuned to this website for further announcements and registration form!
Dr. Caron's powerpoint presentations are posted here
Fall and Winter in the Bee Hive
Colony Collapse Disorder
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.
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.