The Spread of the Yellow-legged Asian Hornet in the UK: Global Lessons for Beekeepers
A webinar Presented by Norman Carreck -
BSc CBiol FRSB FRES NDB
Hosted by Jes Smith - Apitura Innovation
and Rebecca Coleman - Thorne Beehives
Norman Carreck -
BSc CBiol FRSB FRES NDB
Norman has kept bees since his teens and studied Agricultural Science at the University of Nottingham. He was apiculturalist at Rothamsted Research and later worked at the University of Sussex. He is former Science Director of the International Bee Research Association and joint editor of The Beekeepers Quarterly magazine.
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IN this free pre-recorded webinar, Norman will give A comprehensive briefing examining the evolving threat of the Yellow-legged hornet (vespa velutina) to apiculture and the wider environment in the uk and internationally.
Looking back: how the story has unfolded so far
UK & Ireland: confirmed sightings, patterns and accelerating trends
Jersey: frontline insights, detection data and response experience
Southern Europe: lessons from regions living with sustained pressure
Emerging spread into New Zealand and the USA: early warning signs
Q&A: what can we all do to help
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The Beekeepers Quarterly is an international English language beekeeping journal published by Northern Bee Books since 1984. Edited by Andrea Quigley and Norman Carreck
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NORMAN CARRECK
BSc CBiol FRSB FRES NDB
Norman Carreck has been keeping bees since the age of 15. He read Agricultural Science at Nottingham University and joined Rothamsted Research in 1987 as an agronomist working on nutrient uptake in cereal crops. Between 1991 and 2006 he was apiculturalist in the Plant and Invertebrate Ecology Division there, with responsibility for maintaining about 80 colonies of honey bees and was also fully involved in research on pollination ecology, bee behaviour, bee pathology and forage for bees.
Since 2008 he has carried out research at the University of Sussex on bee breeding and pesticides and bees. Between 2007 and 2018 he was Senior Editor of the Journal of Apicultural Research, and between 2009 and 2018 he was employed as Science Director of the International Bee Research Association. He obtained the National Diploma in Beekeeping in 1996, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society in 2004, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology in 2011.
He is a Trustee of the C B Dennis British Beekeepers Research Trust, Examinations Moderator for the Examinations Board for the UK National Diploma in Beekeeping, an Independent Science Advisor to the “Bee Health Advisory Forum” for the Defra “Healthy Bees Plan” and is the only UK member of the Executive Committee of the international honey bee research network "COLOSS".
He is joint editor of the Beekeepers Quarterly, a director of Carreck Consultancy Ltd and Bee Publishing Ltd and is an Associate Fellow of the University of Sussex.
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