Course Information

Course includes lectures, hands-on workshops, and informal discussions on:

• Introduction to beekeeping
• Pesticides & Bees
• Bee Anatomy
• Mite Biology & Management
• Small Hive Beetle
• Bee Diseases
• Breeding & genetics
• Swarm control
• Sting allergies
• Wintering in the Midwest
• Pollination
• Colony organization

INSTRUCTORS: Prof. Gene Robinson, Dr. May Berenbaum, and staff of the University of Illinois Bee Research Facility

LOCATION: Bee Research Facility and Institute for Genomic Biology — both brand new, state-of-the-art buildings

FEE: $100 (includes course materials and refreshments)

DATES & TIMES: April 12, 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM

REGISTRATION:
  Phone: (217) 333-2910     Fax: (217) 244-3499
  Email: entowork@life.uiuc.edu

Or, write/send your name, address, phone number, email, and check to:

Sponsored by:
Dept. of Entomology, University of Illinois
School of Integrative Biology, University of Illinois
Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois

History

Gene Robinson initiated the University of Illinois Bees and Beekeeping Short course in 1997. The course is supported by the Department of Entomology, the Center for Economic Entomology at the Illinois Natural History Survey, and the Illinois Cooperative Extension Service; it is staffed by members of Robinson's research group, colleagues from the department and other parts of campus, and outside specialists. The course features lectures and workshops on many important topics for beginning and advanced beekeepers including mite control, sting allergies, and queen rearing. A unique feature of the course is the opportunity to learn about the exciting new research on honey as a nutraceutical performed here by a research team led by May Berenbaum. Another feature of the course is the opportunity for participants to join research teams and perform real experiments with honey bees as "citizen scientists." Response to the course has been very enthusiastic, and was offered for the fourth consecutive year this past summer. The course fits well with a new emphasis on university outreach, and we can expect it will be just the first of several outreach courses offered by our department.

Beekeepers get some hands on experience at a hive	Professor May Berenbaum lectures on the nutraceutical properties of honey