** Bee Health Day in Aberdeen Tomorrow **

[gavin]

Apparently there are still places and they are still happy to take bookings - spread the word!

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An Invitation to Beekeepers in the Aberdeen and District area

The Scottish Government (SG),

Science and Advice for Scottish Agriculture (SASA)

and Scottish Agricultural College (SAC)

are holding a

BEE HEALTH DAY

on Saturday 19th May 2012

from 9.30am – 5.15pm

at Craibstone Estate, Bucksburn, Aberdeen, AB21 9YA
(teas, coffees and lunch will be provided - PLEASE NOTIFY US OF ANY SPECIAL DIETARY REQUIREMENTS)

A full day of lectures and practical sessions covering: AFB, EFB and other Bee Diseases, Apiary Hygiene, a Shook Swarm demonstration and Integrated Pest Control

To book your place or for more information contact:

Alison Knox, P Spur, Saughton House, Broomhouse Drive, Edinburgh, EH11 3XD
Tel: 0300 244 9836
Email: Alison.knox@scotland.gsi.gov.uk

Please note that there will be a cost of £25.00

(cheques should be made payable to “SAC”)

- With thanks to -

Aberdeen and District Beekeepers’ Association

[Calum]

hardly seems worth the bother unless it will be 110% about Neonicotinoid & CCD.

[Jon]

Pesticide use and abuse is certainly relevant to bee health, maybe a few percent of the agenda as opposed to 100%
We have a well known bee inspector, Megan Seymour, coming over to NI next weekend to do a series of demonstrations on foulbrood detection.
On a bee health day I would want to hear a lot of stuff about varroa, foulbrood, the two nosemas, and nutrition.

[Neils]

We ran a similar session for our county association Spring Day school a few years back, it was very useful. We had the entire south west Bee unit guys come down to run sessions on pretty much everything disease related.

[Jon]

£25 for a full day event including lunch is damned good value.

[EmsE]

If its the same as the one they held in Edinburgh last year, it certainly is good value for money. It was an excellent course and so worth going to if you have the opportunity.

[Stromnessbees]

Pesticide use and abuse is certainly relevant to bee health, maybe a few percent of the agenda as opposed to 100%

I was lucky enough to be able to attend this event.

It was very thorough on EFB and AFB, even showing live examples.

There was 0% mention of pesticides by the instructors though, which surprised me, especially as neonicotinoids make bees more susceptible to all sorts of diseases as they interfere with the grooming behaviour of the house bees.

I did have my excellent new book 'A Spring Without Bees, how Colony Collapse Disorder has Endangered Our Food Supply' by Michael Schacker with me, it raised quite a lot of interest amongst the other participants.

[Calum]

Did they at least talk about Wifi or bats?.

No obvious attempt to steer this thread towards pesticides at all there.. Nice one.