BIBBA 2016 Conference Programme
Tuesday 20 Sept
10.30 Opening
Room 1: Welcome by BIBBA President, Manx Beekeepers Federation President and Conference Organiser
Opening of conference by Richard Ronan, MHK, Isle of Man Minister of the Department of Environment, Food and Agriculture (DEFA)
11.15 – 12.15 Presentations
Room 1: Paul Cross: “Development of a miniature vibration energy harvester for battery-less tracking of honey bees”
Room 2: Clive deBruyn: “BIBBA in the Isle of Man 40+ years ago”
12.15 – 1.30 Lunch
1.30 – 2.30 Presentations
Room 1: Margaret Murdin: “Bee Genetics Explained – Simply”
Room 2: Phil Chandler: “Balanced Beekeeping: Top Bars, Eco Floors and Black Bees”
2.30 – 2.45 Short break
2.45 – 3.45 Presentations
Room 1: Randy Oliver: “Randy Oliver–The Keeping of Bees in California”
Room 2: Mike Saunders: “A current attempt to recover Apis mellifera mellifera from mongrelised stocks in the Welsh Borders”
3.45 – 4.30 Refreshment break
4.30 – 5.30 Presentations
Room 1: Jeroen Vorstman: “Queen Rearing Simplified”
Room 2: Trisha Marlow: “(The) Status Quo: Rocking all over the Hive”
5.40
Room 1: “Bee improvement and bee breeding groups – some experiences and ideas”
Johnny Kipps: Manx Bee Improvement Group (MBIG)
Jim Ryan: Galtee Bee Breeding Group (GBBG)
Nick Bentham-Green: Bee Improvement Programme for Cornwall (BipCo)
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Wednesday 21 Sept
Room 1: Randy Oliver: “Understanding Colony Build-up and Decline”
Room 2: Tony Maggs: “Bee Farming with Native/Near Native Bees”
10.30 – 11.15 Refreshment break
11.15 – 12.15 Presentations
Room 1: Roger Patterson: “The Patterson Unit”
Room 2: Dorian Pritchard: “Selective breeding without inbreeding; where’s the happy medium?”
12.15 – 1.30 Lunch
1.30 – 2.30 Presentations
Room 1: Jo Widdicombe: “The Principles and Practice of Bee Improvement”
Room 2: Margaret Murdin: “Understanding the Queen – her physiology, characteristics and behaviour”
2.30 – 2.45 Short break
2.45 – 3.45 Presentations
Room 1: Randy Oliver: “Understanding Varroa”
Room 2: Steve Rose: “My Approach to Bee Selection”
3.45 – 4.30 Refreshment break
4.30 – 5.30 Presentations
Room 1: Eoghan Mac Giolla Coda: “Producing Honey Under Difficult Conditions”
Room 2: Philip Denwood: “Towards a History of the Dark Bee in Britain”
7.30 Conference Dinner (Ticket holders only)
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Thursday 22 Sept
9.30 – 10.30 Presentations
Room 1: Pete Sutcliffe: “The hive as a processing centre”
Room 2: Keith Pierce: “Apideas. Their operation and maintenance”
10.30 – 11.15 Refreshment break
11.15 – 12.15 Presentations
Room 1: Irene Power: “Beekeeping and a full time job ”
Room 2: Jim Vivian-Griffiths: “Mating Biology of Honey Bees”
12.15 – 1.30 Lunch
1.30 – 2.30 Presentations
Room 1: Nick Bentham-Green: “Bee Improvement in Cornwall, Achievements and Aspirations”
Room 2: Jim Ryan: “Beekeeping – If the bees wrote the book”
2.30 – 2.45 Short break
2.45 – 3.45 Presentations
Room 1: Michael Maunsell: “The Drone – More to its life than we may think?”
Room 2: Jim Pearson: “Myths, Legends and Lies”
3.45 – 4.30 Refreshment break
4.30 – 5.30 Presentations
Room 1: Randy Oliver: “A Biologist/Beekeeper’s Practical Perspective on Breeding the Ideal Bee for your Area”
Room 2: Huw Evans: “Electronic monitoring as a tool for better beekeeping and queen breeding”
5.30 Room 1: Closing remarks from BIBBA President.
