Date/Time
Date(s) - Wednesday, March 2, 2022
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Categories
Understanding and Improving Honey Bee Nutrition for Sustainable Crop Pollination and Apiculture
Join eOrganic for a webinar on improving honey bee nutrition on farms! The webinar takes place on March 2, 2022 at 11 AM Pacific, 12 Mountain, 1 Central, 2 Eastern Time, and it’s free and open to the public. Advance registration is required.
About the Webinar–Poor nutrition is one of the major factors attributed to honey bee colony declines reported over the past fifteen years. Habitat loss, intensive agriculture, monocultures and changes in plant flowering phenology are most likely contributors to poor nutrition. Nutrition plays a vital role in mitigating effects of these stressors on bees. Currently, there is huge gap in knowledge pertaining to bee nutrition. So, it is necessary to understand honey bee nutrition holistically. This webinar will focus on (a) nutritional challenges facing honey bees during crop pollination (b) efforts to understand nutritional requirements of honey bees and (c) strategies to improve bee nutrition.
Presenter: Dr. Ramesh Sagili, Oregon State University