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2024 Bee Fun Day
Sat, Jul 27
|Ithaca
🌼🐝 Get Ready to Buzz with Excitement! 🐝🌼 🍯 Introducing the Sweetest Event of the Year: The NBA Bee Fun Day! 🍯 Join us for an unforgettable journey into the world of bees at the Bee Fun Day 🐝🍀 🌼 Hands on learning in the hive, Educational Talks, Value Added Workshops and More!
Time & Location
Jul 27, 2024, 7:30 AM – 5:00 PM CDT
Ithaca, 1071 Co Rd G, Ithaca, NE 68033, USA
Guests
About the event
We are so excited to announce that we have not one but TWO Keynote Speakers!
Dr Kaira Wagoner - Co-inventor of the UBeeOTM Assay (Unhealthy Brood Odor (UBO)), a pheromone-based tool for measuring honey bee colony mite & disease resistance. UBeeOTM tests a colony’s ability to detect and remove unhealthy brood from the hive, a heritable trait known as hygienic behavior. Research indicates that colonies with higher UBeeOTM scores have fewer mites, higher survival, and lower virus, Nosema, and chalkbrood loads. In 2023, Dr. Wagoner was recognized in Copenhagen, Denmark as a finalist for the BII & AAAS Science Prize for Innovation for her work with UBeeOTM. Dr. Wagoner currently serves as CEO of Optera, a honey bee health company based in Greensboro, North Carolina, which manufactures UBeeOTM. She also works with pollinators in her role as a Research Scientist at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG).
Schedule
50 minutesCheck in/Social/Vendors
West Entrance
10 minutesWelcome / Announcements