WAS Mini-Conference Dec. 5

MINI-CONFERENCE – Open to All WAS members and Free to the Public on Zoom 
December 5, 2020  
7:00 p.m.
 (Mountain Standard Time)
 6:00 p.m. (Pacific Time)  Registration:  Sign-up to receive a Zoom link
 
On a Cold Day in December, Let’s Talk about Heating Beehives!
 
7:00–7:45 p.m. (MST)  Etienne Tardiff, WAS Yukon Territories Director
Title: Do Bees Heat the Inside of the Hive?  Presentation + Q&A
Description: Etienne keeps bees in the Yukon – he knows winter beekeeping. Hear his A to Z of getting ready to overwinter your bees – hint: it starts in Spring. Etienne will cover basic health, nutrition, environmental factors (weather & forage), hive management basics, and hive enclosure “physics.”
 
7:50–8:35 p.m. (MST)  Scott Debnam, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Montana
Title: Heater Bees and Cell x Cell Temperature Regulation in the Brood Nest.
Description: Scott has over 20 years of research experience and is an instructor with the UM Online Master Beekeeping program and producer of UM’s highly popular Natural Beekeeping course.  He’s found amazing new things about heater bees and has some fantastic inside-the-hive photos and videos to share with everyone.
 
8:40 p.m. (MST)  WAS Members Annual Board of Directors and Business Meeting
Due to COVID-19, the Face-to-Face Annual Meeting was Cancelled
Therefore, WAS is going green with:A short virtual conference, December 5, 2020Monthly informative beekeeping, educational, and fun presentationsA new websiteDigital advertisers2021 Students’ Conference 
8:50 p.m. (MST)  Board of Director’s, Members, Committee Reports, and Elections
 
9:30 p.m. (MST) Adjourn 
 
Registration:  Sign-up to receive a Zoom link
 Looking forward to seeing you there!

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