Webinar Jan 28: Queen Failure After Shipping: Could Humidity and Dehydration Play a Role?

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When: Jan 28, 2025 07:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Topic: Queen Failure After Shipping: Could Humidity and Dehydration Play a Role?

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Description:

Queens exposed to extreme temperatures during shipping may have reduced sperm viability and compromised survival in the first eight weeks after shipping. However, some studies indicate that queens may experience early supercedure even without experiencing extreme temperatures during shipping, suggesting other variables may be interacting with temperature to damage queens. This study considers whether the interaction of temperature with humidity during shipping, called the vapour pressure deficit, contributes to dehydration and early supercedure, and explores whether supplementing queens with water during shipping can improve outcomes.

Tracey Smith

Webinar Speaker:

Tracey Smith
Tracey was around honey bee colonies for the first time in 2008, when she worked for a vegetable farm with a few bee colonies in Fairbanks, Alaska. In 2010, she moved back home to Canada and got her own colonies at her farm near Edmonton, Alberta. From 2010 to 2021, she worked with honey bees full-time, selling her honey and flavoured honey products at farmers markets and small grocery stores and teaching the occasional beekeeping workshop. In 2021, she went back to school to study honey bees at the University of Alberta. She currently works as the Executive Director of Organic Alberta.