Conference Timetable             

Time

Speaker

Subject

10.00

Anne Rowberry

Welcome

10.10 - 10.55

Andrew Durham,
Cambridgeshire BKA

Asian Hornet - Beekeepers Guide (Defences in the Apiary)

11.00 – 11.15

BREAK

 

11.15 - 11:55

Nigel Semmence,
APHA/NBU

Update on Asian Hornet position in UK

12.00 - 12.55

Xulio Maside Rodríguez,
Univ. Santiago de Compostela 

·   Introduction to Atlantic Positive project, and

·   Interactions of invasive V. velutina with parasites of European honeybees and other native Hymenoptera

12.55  - 13.20

LUNCH

 

13.20 – 14.00

Maria Shantal Rodriguez Flores & Ana Dieguez Anton,
Univ. Vigo (Ourense) 

Pressure of Asian hornet (Vespa velutina Lepeletier 1836) on honey bee colonies, and nest architecture in its introduced habitat in Galicia (NW Spain)

14 00  – 14.40

Peter Kennedy,
Univ. Exeter

Searching for Asian Hornet nests

14.40 - 15.00

BREAK

 

15.00 – 15.40

Ana Isabel Garcia
Univ. Santiago de Compostela 

Costs incurred by beekeepers in their fight against V. velutina

15.40 - 15.50

Alastair Christie,
States of Jersey

Situation in Jersey

15.50 – 16.00

Questions

 

16.00

Anne Rowberry

Conference closes






Timings for talks:

8:50

Steve Martin - Biology of the Asian (yellow legged) hornet

1:24:27

Nigel Semmence

2:06:16

Eric's video during lunch

2:43:56

Dr Sandra Rojas-Nossa - The Atlantic Positive project and some of the research and experience from Galicia

3:43:26

Dr Peter Kennedy - Current & Ongoing University of Exeter Asian Hornet Research

4:42:57

Dr Eric Darrouzet - esearch on Asian Hornets in Institut de Recherche sur la Biologie de l'Insecte (IRBI) France

5:38:10

Questions