MSBA MEETING - Come for the Cake, Stay for the Info!
* Special Guest Speaker DEWEY CARON!
* Important Updates on MD's Bees by Cybil Preston!
* Presentations That'll Improve Your Bee Knowledge
* 50th Anniversary of the Association of Southern Maryland Beekeepers (ASMB) Come Have Some Cake!
A fascinating day packed with insights on honey bees & useful tips to keep them.
LOGISTICS
EVENT: MSBA Meeting with Lectures and special guest Dewey Caron, and a celebration of ASMB's 50th year
DAY: Saturday, June 13
TIME: 8:00AM - 2-ishPM
ZOOM: TBA
LOCATION: Charles County Fairgrounds
ADDRESS: 8440 Fairgrounds Rd. La Plata, MD 20646
AGENDA - TBA
PRESENTATIONS - TBA
Stay tuned for specifics, but as a sneak preview... you'll want to come hear experts discussing rearing and hygienic queens.
Learn the state of beekeeping in Maryland from State Apiary Inspector Cybil Preston
Much more!
BIOs
DEWEY CARON
PhD, Professor Emeritus, Author
Dr Dewey M. Caron is Emeritus Professor of Entomology & Wildlife Ecology, Univ of Delaware, & Affiliate Professor, Dept Horticulture, Oregon State University. He had professional appointments at Cornell (1968-70), Univ of Maryland (1970-81) and U Delaware 1981-2009, serving as entomology chair at the last 2. A sabbatical year was spent at the USDA Tucson lab 1977-78 and he had 2 Fulbright awards for projects in Panama and Bolivia with Africanized bees.
Following retirement from Univ of Delaware in 2009 he moved to Portland, OR to be closer to grandkids.
Dewey was very active with EAS serving many positions including President and Chairman of the Board and Master beekeeper program developer and advisor. Since being in the west, he has served as organizer of a WAS annual meeting and President of WAS in Salem OR in 2010, and is currently member-at-large to the WAS Board. Dewey represents WAS on Honey Bee Health Coalition.
In retirement he remains active in bee education, writing for newsletters, giving Bee Short Courses, assisting in several Master beekeeper programs and giving presentations to local, state and regional bee clubs. He is author of Honey Bee Biology & Beekeeping, major textbook used in University and bee association bee courses and has a new bee book The Complete Bee Handbook published by Rockridge Press in 2020. Each April he does Pacific Northwest bee survey of losses and management and a pollination economics survey of PNW beekeepers.