From: Amanda Skidmore <skid@nmsu.edu> Date: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 at 11:40 AM To: "bob@pdnbeekeepers.org" <bob@pdnbeekeepers.org>, Amy Owen <ajowen23@gmail.com>, Lara Lovell <laraquarist@comcast.net>, Elizabeth Lake <eaudryn@gmail.com>, Chris Ewer <sewer556@yahoo.com>, Mark Sommer <msommer@somware.com> Subject: Honey Bee Talk Good morning Everyone, I just wanted to share a registration link to a honey be talk, Dr. Ge Zhang will be giving next week. Please feel free to share the announcement with others in the honey bee community! We hope to see you there! ~Amanda --- Our next pollinator lecture series (with the ABQ BioPark) will be online on Thursday, December 17, 2020 at 3 pm. We are excited to share the work of our new postdoc for this session: Join Dr. Ge Zhang, postdoctoral researcher at New Mexico State University, to learn about his work with honey bees in the Midwest and New Mexico. His talk will cover using a conservation practice with native plants (prairie strips incorporated in cropland) to enhance honey bee health in the Midwest and current and future studies of the bee research team at the NMSU Los Lunas Agricultural Science Center. Our current study is determining the survivorship of fall nucleus of small population size and normal colonies of big size during the winter in a New Mexico desert climate. Future studies will explore the use of flower species by honey bees in NM and integrated pest management (IPM) for Varroa mite in NM. Register online: MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com" claiming to be tinyurl.com/nmsuipm We hope to see you there! Amanda Skidmore, PhD Extension IPM Specialist Department of Extension Plant Sciences Los Lunas Agricultural Science Center New Mexico State University office: 505-865-7340 social media: @Dr_Skidmore Twitter