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Webinar: Varroa Population Growth and Spread
Webinar: Varroa Population Growth and Spread
Kelly Kulhanek discusses the importance of monitoring mite loads in our colonies.
This is an external webinar. There is no fee, but advance registration is required. Click on the link to register: Webinar Registration
About the Topic
Dr. Kelly Kulhanek will discuss the importance of monitoring mite loads in our colonies. She will refer to results from the Bee Informed Partnership programs showing what Varroa population growth looks like in real world apiaries. She will discuss how Varroa treatments sometimes don’t work as well as we expect, and give one possible explanation why. She will finish by sharing results of a study testing bee movement between apiaries, associated increases in Varroa populations, and a potential solution: the robbing screen.
About the Speaker
Dr. Kelly Kulhanek is an Assistant Professor at Washington State University. She has a B.S in Molecular Environmental Biology from UC Berkeley. She completed her Ph.D. in Entomology in Dr. Dennis van Engelsdorp’s Bee Lab at the University of Maryland. During her Ph.D., she worked with the Bee Informed Partnership to study beekeeping management practices, colony health and survival.
She joined the WSU Bee Program in the Hopkins Labs as a postdoctoral researcher in 2020 and recently began a new role as Assistant Professor. She plans to build a program based on regular communication with Washington stakeholders, and to address needs such as locally specific best practices for bee management and crop pollination, and extension programs that will put the latest research into the hands of stakeholders.
