November: Boone Regional Beekeepers - neonicotinoids

Our November meeting will be in-person at the Animal Science Building on the MU campus with guest speaker Lisa Webb.

Sunday, November 20 at 3:00 pm (doors open at 2:30PM).

Lisa Webb is a research ecologist with USGS Missouri Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit and a Cooperative Associate Professor in the School of Natural Resources at the University of Missouri.  Her research focuses on wetland-dependent wildlife habitat associations, distributions and response to anthropogenic stressors in Missouri and throughout the Mississippi Flyway, however she inadvertently ended up studying native bees as part of a larger neonicotinoid insecticide project.  At the upcoming meeting, she will be discussing how neonicotinoid insecticides transfer to non-target ecosystems and the implications for non-target taxa, including honey and native bees.

Additionally we will discuss

• What's happening with your hives.
• What beekeepers should be doing with their hive colonies during winter.