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Yearly events that are fixed in date and place
Date: Friday and Saturday of 2nd Week of March, Any Year
Event: ANR Beekeeping Program at Michigan State University
Location: Kellogg Center, East Lansing, Michigan State University
Official Site
Yearly conference style program to cover current topis in beekeeping. Usually we have two invited speakers from out of state, plus the resident apiculturist
Zachary Huang. Usual cost is $15 per family.
Date: undetermined date, 2003
Event: Sante Fe Institute Social Insects Working Group
Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico
Official Site
Held around the first or second week of October each year, the working group uses social insects as models to integrate organizational concepts of neurobiology, behavior, and social biology. This group is by invitation only.
Date: July 10-12, 2003
Event: Heartland Apicultural Association
Location: Midway, Kentucky
Official Site
This is a newly formed organization by extension specialists from midwest states
(WV, IN, OH, MI, IL, KY, TN). We will have a EAS-flavored conference yearly
around the midwest. For more information please contact Dr.
Tom Webster.
Date: Aug 24-29, 2003
Event: XXXVIII International Apicultural Congress (Apimondia)
Location: Ljubljana, Slovania
Official Site
Held every two years, Apimondia is an international conference bringing together
beekeepers and scientists from around the world. This conference emphasizes
more applied research.
Date: Oct 26-29, 2003
Event: 2003 ESA Annual Meeting
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Official Site
A yearly conference with mostly American entomologists (people who study bug
s), they have a section that deals with bees and other social insects (wasps,
an ts and termites) (Section Cb: Apiculture and Social Insects). Usually geared
to ward more basic research on honey bees.
Date: Feb 23 - 27, 2004
Event: 7th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AAA
Location: Laguna, Philippines
Official Site
Held every two years (in 2002, it was at Bangalore, India), Asian Apicultural Association (AAA) conference will emphasize development and managemeng of indigenous Asian bee species, in addition to Apis mellifera.
Date: June 20-25, 2004
Event: JH-8
Location: King's Beach, California
Official Site
The Eighth International Conference on
Juvenile Hormones, JH 8 (or JH VIII)
focuses on juvenile hormone only (perhaps the most focused conference). JH is an important hormone that regulates metamorphosis in nearly all insects and also regulates division of labor in adult honey bee workers. Held once every three years, this conferences attracts 60-100 scientists from around the world.
Date: Oct 7-10, 2004
Event: IUSSI-NAS
Location: Camp Tontozona, Arizona
Official Site
This is the North American Section of the IUSSI (see below), which usually meets yearly with Entomological Society of America (ESA), but every 2-3 years meets separately.
Date: Date to be announced, 2006
Event: XV INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF IUSSI
Location: Washington DC, USA
Official Site
Held every four years, the Congress of International Union for the Study of
Social Insects deals specifically with social insects (ants, bees, wasps, and
termites, plus the social aphids, beetles, and thrips recently discovered).
Most research are devoted to basic understanding of the social bugs.