Beekeeping Basics
Course will be geared to beekeepers with 1 to 5 year’s experience. It will be all about healthy bees and sustainable beekeeping. We will start with getting colonies through the winter, what to do in the busy spring population explosion, halting swarms, baiting/capturing swarms (of others of course), supering and then finishing with a honey of a harvest.
Dewey M Caron is Emeritus Professor of Entomology & Wildlife Ecology, University of Delaware, & Affiliate Professor, Department Horticulture, Oregon State University (OSU). He had professional appointments at Cornell (1968-1970), University of Maryland (1970-1981) and University of Delaware 1981-2009, serving as entomology chair at the last 2. A sabbatical year was spent at the USDA Tucson lab 1977-1978 and Fulbright year grants in Panama and Bolivia with Africanized bees. Following retirement from University of Delaware in 2009 he moved to Portland OR to be closer to grandkids. Dewey continues active with Eastern Apiculture Society and since moving to Oregon with Western Apicultural Society (WAS). He is currently member-at-large to the WAS Board and represents WAS on Honey Bee Health Coalition (HBHC), including major writer for Tools for Varroa Management and Best management Practices. In retirement he remains active in bee education, writing for newsletters, giving Bee Short Courses, assisting in several Master beekeeper programs and giving presentations to local, state, and regional bee clubs. He is author of Honey Bee Biology & Beekeeping and has a new bee book The Complete Bee Handbook. Each April he does a Pacific Northwest bee survey www.pnwhoneybeesurvey.com of losses and management and with OSU a pollination economics survey of Pacific Northwest beekeepers.