PUBLIC TALK: SymbioticA Friday Seminar> Is Tolerance Breeding Too Much to Ask? - threats to honeybees in Australia

SymbioticA Friday Seminar; Speaker: Tiffane Bates; Title: 'Is Tolerance Breeding Too Much to Ask?'; Time & Location: 3:30-5pm @ SymbioticA;

This week’s seminar will be given by Tiffane Bates, recipient of a 2009 Churchill Fellowship for a three month whirlwind of learning, visiting iconic figures in the bee industry that are working on breeding honeybees which can... resist some of these threats.

Honeybees are under threat worldwide and many people devote their lives to finding innovative and optimistic solutions. Australia is the last ‘Honeybee Oasis’, the final continent without massive honeybee collapse. Full scale honeybee decline will cost us billions in Agricultural income and threaten our food supply.

Bates wonders, can we instead breed bees which survive and thrive under the stresses they face? If so, making these bees commercially viable is a challenge faced by every country.

Bates is a self employed beekeeper as well as the manager of the apiary with The Collaborative Initiative for Bee Research (CIBER) at UWA.

More Info & Future Seminars: http://www.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au/activities/friday_afternoons