Tentative Schedule — 24-27 July 2006

Western Apicultural Society in Buellton, California

Pea Soup Andersen’s Conference Center

Monday 1:00 Exhibits set up

3:00 Exhibits open

Silent Auction begins

6:30 Registration (until 7:20)

7:00 “Bee Buzz” Social — No host bar

Tuesday 7:30 Registration until 8:20

8:00 Welcome to the Conference

Exhibits open

Door prizes

8:30 Joe Traynor, Almond Pollination — Past, Present,

and Future

9:15 Frank Eischen, Australian vs California Bees

in Almond Pollination

10:15 Break

11:00 David Kellum, Living with Africanized Honey Bees

for Decades

Lunch on your own

12:45 Registration (until 1:10), door prizes

1:15 Jim Bach, Formic Acid Use in the U.S.A.

2:00 Dewey Caron, Small Hive Beetles: A Potential Threat

2:45 Break

3:15 Serge Labesque, Achieving self-sufficiency as beekeepers,

and the question of sustainability of contemporary beekeeping practices

4:00-5:00 Delegates/Directors Meetings

Dinner on your own

Wednesday 7:30 Registration until 8:20

8:00 Exhibits open

8:30 Adrian Wenner, Odor and Honey Bee Exploitation

Of Food Crops.

9:15 Tanya Pankiw, Brood Pheromone Effects

On Foraging Behavior and Colony Growth

10:15 Break

11:00 Robbin Thorp, Diversity in Bees: Native Bees, Exotics, Solitaries, Cuckoos, and Socials

Lunch on your own

Free Afternoon — or (optional):

1:30 Tour of the Santa Ynez Valley — “Sideways” Country

or: Self-Guided Tours

Thursday 7:30 Registration until 8:20

8:00 Exhibits open, door prizes

8:30 Tom Glenn, Twenty Virgins a Day: How I Keep Up!

9:15 Marina Meixner, Selection of Honey Bee Lines

10:00 Break

10:45 Debbie Delaney, Genetic Diversity of Honey Bee Populations

in the United States: Comparative Analysis of Commercial Breeding Populations through Time

Lunch on your own

1:00 End of silent auction

1:15 Diana Sammataro, The Tucson Lab work on Oxalic acid and Sucrocide

2:00 Harrington Wells, Introduction of the European Honey Bee

To Pakistan

2:45 Business Meeting and Awards

5:00 Auction and Barbecue at the University of California

Sedgewick Reserve

Friday Optional: Post Conference Whale Watching Tour