Date: Saturday, Sept. 26, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Place: Charles Beale Auditorium, Haywood Community College, Clyde NC
Cost: $55 per person (2 for $100) pre-registered, $75 at door if available
To register & for more information: http://www.chbr.org/Sept26Event.aspx
From the Center:
The Center for Honeybee Research welcomes you for a special one day Event to examine ecological issues facing our Planet. While our food supply is threatened by Pollinator decline, consequences of accelerating widespread chemical applications may not become evident in time to prevent adverse repercussions. Can we expect to engineer ‘fixes’ along the way, or is it possible to discover solutions in Nature? What affects honeybees affects us all.
The Center is proud to bring these five distinguished luminaries to Western North Carolina:
Paul Stamets joins us to talk about mycoremediation and his recent findings about bees. He is perhaps the most recognized mushroom guru on the planet and his use of fungi to decompose hazardous waste products is an example of Nature as partner in restoring balance. He has recently been working with mushroom extracts capable of reducing viral loads in honeybee colonies. The Center is very excited to host Paul in a rare visit to the East Coast.
Melanie Kirby is the current Editor of the Walter Kelley Co. online Newsletter – which boasts over 30,000 subscribers. She is founder of Zia Queen Bees in Truchas, NM (elev. 8300 ft) and her passion is the search for stronger honeybee genetics. She and partner, Mark Spitzig collect and select stock resistant to both disease and pests. She is partnering with Prof. Julianna Rangel of Texas A&M in applying for grants to collect ‘Survivor Stock’ from all over the U.S.
Dr. Don Huber is Emeritus Professor of Plant Pathology at Purdue University who has been revealing alarming facts and trends about the World’s most ubiquitous herbicide. Application of Glyphosate (aka Round-Up) has increased a thousand-fold since the year 2000 and is absorbed in every tissue of GMO food we eat. Dr. Huber will discuss a litany of accelerating epidemics in both humans and livestock and their possible links with this ‘harmless’ formulation.
Dr. Jay Evans is the current managing Director of the largest USDA Bee Lab in Beltsville MD. He is one of the most prolific and respected experts in the field of genetics with particular interest in the expression of traits – how genes “turn on” or “off” in response to environmental conditions. Beltsville is involved in lab testing viral load in honeybees.
Dr. Steve Sheppard is Professor and Department Chair of Entomology at Washington State University . He has been collecting and importing frozen bee semen to expand the genetic pool of our American honeybees for several years. In June 2015 Steve traveled to Kazahkstan looking for material from a race of bees which may be ancestors to all our Western Honeybees. He and Sue Cobey assess and release this new material to bee breeders. Dr. Shepard has been collaborating with Paul Stamets in testing mushroom extracts in the elimination of honeybee viruses, and he will be coming to us fresh off his keynote address to the International Federation of Beekeeping Associan’s (Apimondia) in Daejeon Korea.
The Center for Honeybee Research is an IRS approved 501-C (3) charitable organization based in Asheville, NC, USA. This is an educational Event open to the general public. Ticket prices are applied to the costs of organizing, promoting, and producing this Event.
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