B4 Project - Honey Bee Symposium
Presented by: Calstock Arts| 0 | CALSTOCK: Calstock Arts (info) |
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| P | Sunday 23rd February, 2025 |
| N | Door time: 9:00am Start time: 9:30am |
| . | 14+ (under 18s must be accompanied by an adult) |
| C | Other |
Event information
This symposium provides a unique opportunity to unite science, conservation and community around sustainable solutions for our honey bee populations. Whether you’re a beekeeper, policymaker or concerned citizen, you should be alarmed that we imported c35,000 honey bee queens into Britain from Southern Europe in 2024. Most of the imports were backdoored through Northern Ireland and a lot were resold with misleading provenance.
B4 hybrid recorded symposium 9am -3pm
A Honey Bee Symposium with -
Professor Grace McCormack,
Professor Mairi Knight,
Norman Carreck,
Professor Alice Pinto,
Dr Maria Bouga
9am Doors open with coffee and teas
9.15 Live music
9.45 Welcome - Steve Woods, Calstock Arts environment series
Welcome - Selwyn Runnett, B4 Project
10am Professor Mairi Knight, picture of imports into the UK
Norman Carreck, disease threats from imports
Associate Professor Jon Ellis, threats from imports, from introgression/loss of traits/genetic variation/locally adapted variants
Dr Matthew Richardson BeeBytes, status of Amm in the UK (including free-living)
11am Break
11.15 Professor Grace McCormack, history of imports and the current status of Amm in Ireland (including free-living colonies)
Professor Alice Pinto, status of Amm across its wider European range (remote presentation)
Dr Maria Bouga, conservation efforts/import status in other countries (remote presentation)
Selwyn Runnett, practical solutions for more sustainable beekeeping
12.30 Open panel questions
1pm Lunch- pasties
2pm Film "Mail order queens".
2.30 Selwyn Runnett B4 closing brief
