[Pollinator] Crop Pollination session during Delaware Ag Week

[ladadams at aol.com]

Delaware Dept. of Agriculture,  Plant Industries, will be hosting a Crop 
Pollination session during Delaware Ag  Week.  The agenda is below.  There is 
no charge or admission fee for  the session.  This will also give you the 
chance to meet the new Apiculture  professor at the University of Delaware, 
Dr. Debbie Delaney. 
The Pollinator  Session will be held in the Ag Commodities and Education 
Building at the  Delaware State Fair Grounds.  Here are the driving 
directions:  _http://www.delawarehttp://wwwhttp://wwhttp://wwhttp://www.htt_ 
(http://www.delawarestatefair.com/fair/visitors/directions.htm)    
Here is a link to the Ag Week  Schedule, so you can see what’s going on in 
the other  sessions. 
_http://www.rec.http://wwhttp://www.rhtt_ 
(http://www.rec.udel.edu/AgWeek/home.htm)  
Crop Pollination and  Bees                                                  
                    January 21, 2010 
Moderator:  Faith  Kuehn, Plant Industries Administrator, Delaware 
Department of  Agriculture 
8:30-8:40          Welcome and Introduction.  Bob Mitchell, Delaware State 
Apiarist, Delaware  Department of Agriculture, Dover, DE 
8:40-9:00          The Status of Honey Bee Health in the U.S.  I. Barton 
Smith, Jr,  Entomologist, USDA Bee Research Laboratory, Beltsville, MD 
9:00-9:20          Honey Bees, Satellites and Climate Change.  Wayne 
Esaias, Research  Scientist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenville, MD 
9:20-9:40          Non-Apis Bees Important for Crop Pollination.  Nancy Lee 
Adamson,  Entomology Graduate Student, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA  
9:40-9:55          Pollination Service: the Value of Honey Bees and Native 
Bees in Delaware.   Debbie Delaney, Assistant Professor of Entomology, 
University of Delaware  (February 1, 2010), Postdoctoral Fellow North Carolina 
State  University 
9:55-10:10        BREAK 
10:10-10:50     Honey Bees, Bumble  Bees, and Pollenizers in Watermelons.  
Jonathan Schultheis, Professor and  Departmental Extension Leader, 
Department of Horticultural Science, North  Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 
10:50-11:30     Native Pollinators  Can Provide Crop Assurance in Pumpkins. 
 T’ai Roulston, Curator, The State  Arboretum of Virginia, Research 
Associate Professor, Department of Environmental  Science, University of Virginia, 
Boyce, VA 
11:30-11:45     Delaware Bees and  their Habitat.  Heather Harmon Disque, 
Entomologist, Plant Industries,  Delaware Department of Agriculture, Dover, 
DE 
11:45-12:10     How to Plant  Pollinator Buffer Strips and Meadows.  
Matthew Sarver, Sarver Ecological Consulting,  Blairsville, PA 
Thanks and  regards, 
Faith 
Faith B. Kuehn,  Ph.D.  
Plant Industries  Administrator  
Delaware Department  of Agriculture  
2320  S. Dupont Highway  
Dover, DE    19901  
302-698-4587 

 





Laurie Davies Adams
Executive  Director
Pollinator Partnership 
423 Washington Street, 5th  floor
San Francisco, CA  94111
415-362-1137
LDA at pollinator.org

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National Pollinator Week is June 21-27, 2010. 
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