What do you get a beau who loves cockroaches? Why, you name a cockroach for them!
The Bronx Zoo has various packages available staring at $15 for a basic naming of a cockroach and going up to $75 for a package that includes naming a roach, a cockroach pin, cockroach chocolate candies, and cockroach socks! For those of you who do not know me well, a fun fact is that I LOVE weird socks (today I'm wearing Tacosaurus socks) and when I saw the cockroach socks it was love at first sight! While I think the price for the deluxe package is a bit steep at $75 (or if you just get the socks, $35 is still pricey), I still really hope that my husband tracks down some cheaper cockroach socks for me.....
Friday, February 9, 2018
Friday, January 26, 2018
2018 All Bugs Good and Bad Webinar Series- FREE!
The 2018 All Bugs Good and
Bad Webinar Series kicks off Friday, February 2nd at 1 pm
CST!
Our speaker, Norm Haley,
from Alabama Extension, will be will be discussing “Feral Hogs, Ecology,
and Control”. The webinar will be recorded, so you can watch it any
time. To watch a webinar, just log in as a guest 15 minutes before the
webinar begins. Please share this with anyone who might be interested. You
can find the login information below. Thank you for supporting our program and
we hope you listen in on February 2nd!
Event starts: Friday,
February 2 at 2:00 pm EST
Event ends: Friday,
February 2 at 3:00 pm EST
Location: https://auburn.zoom.us/j/209793415
As the numbers of feral hogs continue to rise in the United States, so
do the problems that they create. Get a plan! Learn about their biology, distribution,
and management strategies in this webinar presented by Norm Haley, Alabama Extension. Moderated by
Mallory Kelley and David Koon,
Regional Extension Agents, Alabama Extension.
The link to the event will be https://auburn.zoom.us/j/209793415.
Note: on February 2, the link to the live webinar opens about 15 minutes before
the webinar. If you try to log in earlier, you will get an error message.
For more webinars in this series, see 2018 All Bugs Good and Bad Webinar Series. The webinars are brought to you by the following eXtension Communities of Practice: Ant Pests, and Urban IPM; and by the Alabama Cooperative Extension System, the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service, Clemson Cooperative Extension and University of Georgia Extension.
Here's the skinny on the full line up for 2018:
February 2 Feral Hogs, Ecology, and Control by Norm Haley
March 2 Misidentified Pests in the Landscape by Erfan Vafaie
April 6 Argentine Ants and Others by Dr. Eric Benson
May 4 What Everyone Must Know About Fleas by TBA
June 1 Attracting Pollinators to Our Yards by Molly Keck
August 3 Bees, Wasps, and Hornets, Oh My! byLynn Braband
September 7 Winterizing Your Home to Keep Out Pests byJanet Hurley
October 5 Structural Misidentified Pests by Wizzie Brown
November 2 Lice, Scabies, and Mites by Dr. Nancy Hinkle
December 1 Pantry Pests by Dr. Dan Suiter
Wednesday, January 3, 2018
Austin 7th Annual Beekeeping Seminar
When: Jan. 27, 2018
Who: Austin Area Beekeepers Association
Where: Norris Conference Centers, 2525 W Anderson
Ln #365, Austin, TX 78757
Cost: $60
Why:
The
mission of this daylong seminar is to educate people of all experience levels
in sustainable science-based bee husbandry and to provide support to worthy bee
charities. The lion’s share of the proceeds are donated to the Texas A&M
Honey Bee Lab, the Texas Beekeepers Association Queen’s Program, the Texas
Master Beekeeping Program and other bee charities.
Description:
This
is a daylong seminar offering 5 different educational presentations
running concurrently every hour throughout the day. This will provide many
beginning and advanced subjects to choose from. A separate beginner track has been formatted covering a
variety of startup topics for soon-to-be or very-new beekeepers. A
beginner beekeeper will learn the fundamentals of honey bee biology and
behavior, how to select the equipment you will need, where to buy bees, how to
set up your apiary, how to light a smoker, feeding, the fundamentals of honey
extraction, queen finding, requeening and annual management.
This organization is
non-profit and 100% of the proceeds of this event will be used to promote
sustainable beekeeping practices and provide support to bee charities.
Other Sessions
will include:
-Honey
Bee Management 1 and 2
-Nutrition
Management
-Honey
Bee Biology and Behavior
-Top
Bar Management 1 and 2
-Effective
Varroa Management for Robust Populations
-Brood
Disease and Pest Control
-Swarm
Capture Techniques
-Raising
Queens
-Simple
Queen Cell Production
-Learn Honey
Extraction Techniques
-How
to Grow Your Apiary Business
-Successful
Sales and Marketing
-How
to plant Beescapes
-Bees
as an Ag. Exemption
-Queen
Finding and Requeening
-Honey
Bee Reproductive Biology
-Making
Splits
-Cut-Outs
-Equipment
Building Workshop
-Smoker
Lighting Demo
-What
Every Beekeeper Should Know About Foraging
-Impact
of Miticides on QMP
-Varroa
Monitoring Workshop
-Honey
Bee Health and Nutrition
-Preparing for a Honey Show
Presenters:
Professor
Juliana Rangel – Entomology at Texas A&M
Mary
Reed - Texas Apiary Inspector
Mark
Hedley - Owner of Spiral Horn Apiary
Dan
Aurell - Texas A&M Tech Transfer Team
Ryan
Giesecke - Trinity Valley Beekeepers President
James
& Chari Elam - Owners of Bluebonnet Beekeeping Supplies
Dodie
Stillman - Certified Texas Master Beekeeper
Elizabeth
Walsh - Ph.D. Student of Entomology at Texas
A&M
Tanya
Phillips - Certified Texas Master Beekeeper
Karl
Acuri - Austin Area Beekeepers Assoc.
(Co-Organizer)
Becky
Bender - Texas Master Naturalist
Brandon
Fehrenkamp - Owner of Austin Bees
Pamela Yeamans – Certified Advanced
Level Beekeeper (TMBP)
Chuck
Reburn - Certified Texas Master Beekeeper
Ashley
Ralph - Area Director Texas Beekeepers Assoc.
Steve
Butler - Owner of Company Bee
John
Swan - Owner of Wicked Bee Apiary
Dennis
Herbert - Past Pres. of the Bell-Coryell
Beekeeping Assoc.
Lance
Wilson - Certified Master Craftsman Beekeeper
(GMBP)
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