We have a great guest speaker lined up for our next meeting, September 14th. Becky Masterman, co-host on the Beekeeping Today Podcast and contributor to Bee Culture Magazine, will be joining us via Zoom. Her experience with the Minnesota Bee Lab, working with Marla Spivak in developing hygienic queens and being an active beekeeper herself in a northern climate should provide good material for her talk.
A brief bio is given below. Look here again and on Facebook for our agenda, to be published soon.
PhD, Cohost, Columnist
Becky Masterman became a beekeeper when hired by the University of Minnesota Bee Lab as an undergraduate lab technician in 1992. She stayed on to earn a Ph.D. studying the neuroethology of honey bee hygienic behavior under the direction of Dr. Marla Spivak.
After a career detour in real estate, Becky returned to the Bee Lab in 2012 and led their Bee Squad program until 2019. Becky also served the Minnesota Honey Producers Association Board as a Director from 2016-2022 and currently heads their Habitat Committee and Habitat Hour webinar series. She has co-written the Minding Your Bees and Cues column with Bridget Mendel for Bee Culture Magazine since 2020. She co-hosts the popular, weekly Beekeeping Today Podcast with Jeff Ott.
Residing in Saint Paul with her husband and cat, Becky spends her free time managing her own bees and short-term rental properties across the Twin Cities metro area.
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