Thursday, May 29, 2025 at 5:30AM – 7:30AM (EST)(GMT -4)
Australian Time, 19:30 +10 GMT
This is a free event with donations optional. This event is co-hosted with the Australian Queen Breeders Association, Rockhamptom Bees, and the SBGMI. Registrants will receive a link to the recording following the presentation. All proceeds go toward beekeeper education, future speaker events, and further development and outreach efforts of the SBGMI.
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Join us for this free webinar discussing honey bee queen breeding, recessive inheritance, hygienic behavior, hygienic and resistance testing techniques, the pin-test,UBeeO & more.
This webinar is being presented on Australian time 19:30 +10 GMT – or 5:30 AM EST. It will be recorded for later viewing and sent to registrants and members.
Lutz Eggert (https://pin-test.com/en/) has been a professional beekeeper since 2008 and has been intensively dedicated to queen breeding since 2010. Supervising professional beekeepers with several thousand colonies in Austria, Italy, Switzerland, and Denmark, with whom he raises up to 4,000 queens of his own genetics per year.
In Germany alone, He produces and manages up to 1,500 mating station queens, including approximately 400 instrumentally inseminated multi- and single-drone queens. Since 2020, He has been operating an island mating station in Gelm, on the island of Rügen, in cooperation with the Buckfast Association of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, which will provide the opportunity to mate queens with his drone line.