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Program At A Glance

Final Program Updated 


 

Saturday 15th June 2024

Speakers

8:00

 

REGISTRATION

Opening poster session (1)

Speakers* talk in Spanish

8:30

 

OPENING SESSION 

Welcome from Organizers (15 min)

Welcome from supporting organizations (15 min)

APIMONDIA

AVESPA (Dolores Sánchez)

UCM (Aránzazu Meana) & Honor Committee

9:00

 

PLENARY SESSION ( PART 1)

Animal welfare concepts applied to honeybees: Is our planet a healthy world?

Chairs: Aránzazu Meana & Jeff Pettis

 

 

 

Honeybee Welfare: from Five Freedoms to Five Provisions 

Jesús de la Fuente*

 

 

 

Challenges to ensure sustainability of beekeeping under modern agriculture and climate change 

 Fani Hatjina

 

 

 

INSIGNIA, an environmental biomonitoring study with honey bee colonies; an overview of the results

 Sjef van der Steen

 

 

 

Q&A

 

10:30

 

Coffee break

Sponsored by Dalan Animal Health

11:00

 

ORAL SESSION 1 

Provision 1: Related to providing food availability and access to fresh water and a balanced diet 

Chairs: Jesús de la Fuente & Carlos Marín

 

 

Short lecture from one chair (15 min)

Beekeeping feeding; more questions than answers

Carlos Marín*

 

 

Oral presentations

Problems in the execution of effectiveness studies of protein supplementation on Apis Mellifera iberiensis

Marta Pitarch-Bielsa 

 

 

 

Body Water loss as bee adaptability to climate change 

Soledad Sagastume 

 

 

 

Adaptation of beekeeping to climate change: modelling the ecological niche of habitats of beekeeping interest in the Sierra del Rincón (MADRID, SPAIN)

Jorge J. Ortega Marcos 

 

 

 

A holistic approach to honey bee welfare 

Claudia Garrido 

12:30

 

 Sponsors Get Together Session (20 min each)

13:15

 

Lunch

Sponsored by AVESPA

14:30

   

Sponsor Session individual (30 min) (per invitation)

15:00

 

ORAL SESSION 2

Provision 2: Related to providing a suitable environment for honeybees

Chairs: Aránzazu Meana & Peter Kozmus

 

 

 Short lecture from one chair (15 min)

How to adapt good beekeeping practice to global climate change?

Peter Kozmus 

 

 

 Oral presentations

New perspectives for the assessment of honeybees exposure to agrochemicals

Audrey Dewar 

 

 

 

Installing beehives in solar parks to enhance biodiversity 

Nuria Rubio 

 

 

 

Honey bees and larvae as indicators of environmental burden with toxic macro- and trace elements in eastern Slovakia

Imrich Szabó 

 

 

 

Effects of honey bee hives density on wild pollinators´communities 

Jorge Chicote Carreras 

16:15

 

Coffee break

Sponsored by AVESPA

16:45

 

ORAL SESSION 3

Provision 3: Related to prevent or rapidly diagnose and treat diseases, pests and conditions 

Chairs: Juan Molina & Jeff Pettis

 

 

 Short lecture from one chair (15 min)

Can we slow the spread of exotic pests like small hive beetles and tropilaelaps mites?

Jeff Pettis 

 

 

 Oral presentations

Efficiency of a new type of oxalic strips in varroa control

Hussein Jradi

 

 

 

Detecting and comparing the abundance of Vairimorpha (Nosema) spp. in different bee habitat types 

Beáta Sabolová 

 

 

 

The use of natural substances to increase the immunity of honey bee colonies 

Dagmar Mudroňová 

 

 

 

The impacts of disinfectants on the Bacterium paenibacillus llarvae in laboratory settings

Ivana Tlak Gajger 

18:00

 

End Poster session 1 

Presentation and discussion

Scientific Committee

18:30

 

AVESPA Asamblea General

 


FINAL PROGRAM UPDATED

 

Sunday 16th June 2024

Speakers

8:00

   

Poster session 2

 

8:30

 

PLENARY SESSION (2)

Animal welfare concepts applied to honeybees: can colonies be healthy and sustainable?

Chairs: Aránzazu Meana & Fani Hatjina 

 

 

 

Honey bee health in a world of pathogens and pesticides: measurement and interpretation of large data sets (20 min)

Marie Pierre Chauzat

 

 

 

Paving the way to marker-assisted selection in beekeeping targeting varroosis (20 min)

Dirk de Graaf

 

 

 

Bee welfare evaluation as a tool to assess bee management (20 min)

Giovanni Formato

 

 

 

Bee-Extend, to clarify the deficiencies and need of advisory services for sustainable beekeeping (and beekeepers) (20 min)

Lotta Fabricius

 

 

 

Q&A (25 min)

 

10:15

 

Coffee break

Sponsored by AVESPA

10:45

 

ORAL SESSION 4

Provision 4: Related to providing proper facilities and bee handling

Chairs: Sergio Gi & Miguel Alonso

 

 

 Short lecture from a chair (15 min)

Biotechnical control in ecological beekeeping 

Miguel Alonso*

 

 

Oral presentations

 

Galician black bee project - PANEGA

Xosé Manuel Durán Orús 

 

 

 

The relationship between beekeeping management and the infestation of Varroa destructor in beehives of Sierra del Rincón (Madrid, Spain)

Ana Moreno de la Fuente 

 

 

 

How to control Varroa with oxalic and much more 

Carlos Pardo Navarro

 

 

 

Genetic lines of Apis mellifera iberiensis with higher survival and Varroa-resistance (ECOAPI project)

Melanie Parejo 

12:00

 

ORAL SESSION 5

Provision 5: Related to ensuring conditions that prevent 

the suffering of honeybee colonies

 

 

 

 

 Short lecture from a chair (15 min)

Invasive hornet on the horizon: a call to action for ecosystem health 

 Xesús Feas*

 

 

 Oral presentations

 Has Tropilaelaps mite passed through the borders of Iran? and could it be the cause of the severe honey bee losess of Iran over the past 2 years?

 

Pegah Valizadeh 

 

 

 

Survival rate within Apis mellifera subspecies from Mediterranean basin 

Soledad Sagastume 

 

 

 

 Asessing the adaptation of Apis mellifera subspecies to Mediterranean environments 

Antonio Nanetti 

 

 

 

Heat and cold tolerance of Apis mellifera iberiensis and Apis mellifera syrica

Raquel Martín

13:15

 

End Poster Session 2

Presentation and discussion

Scientific Committee

13:45

 

CONCLUSIONS AND BEE HEALTH SYMPOSIUM CLOSING 

APIMONDIA

AVESPA (Dolores Sánchez)

UCM (Aránzazu Meana)