The Bees Have It!

May 29, 2015

The Bees Have It!

May 29, 2015

If you missed the first-ever UC Davis Bee Symposium on keeping bees healthy, not to worry

The event, hosted May 9 in the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science by the Honey and Pollination Center and the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, drew some 360 people.

Entomology doctoral candidate Matthew Prebus of the Phil Ward lab, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, video-recorded the presentations and uploaded them today.

You can watch them on YouTube.

Amina Harris, director of the Honey and Pollination Center, and Michael Parrella, professor and chair of the UC Davis Department of Entomology, welcomed the crowd.

Marla Spivak, Distinguished McKnight Professor, University of Minnesota and a 2010 MacArthur Fellow, keynoted the symposium, speaking on "Helping Bees Stand on Their Own Six Feet."

The presentations on YouTube:

Marla Spivak: Protecting Pollinators

The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation generously provided funding.

Upcoming blog: Who won the student poster competition at the symposium and with what topics?