Wednesday September 18th, 2024 at 6:00PM – 8:00PM (EST)
This is a free event with donations optional. All proceeds go toward beekeeper education, future speaker events, and further development and outreach efforts of the SBGMI. This event will be recorded and available to subscribing SBGMI members for a brief time.
Stephen J Martin currently works at the School of Environment and Life Sciences, University of Salford. Stephen does research in the causes behind honey bee losses and chemical recognition in social insects.
How beekeepers can propagate the varroa-resistant traits they have in their colonies depends on how varroa resistance, i.e. the key hygienic behavioural traits, are passed onto the next generation. Queen swap experiments conducted both in the UK and Hawaii both showed that to propagate mite-resistant traits, beekeepers only need to re-queen a colony with a locally mated queen from an established resistant population.