Cesky

since 1995

A COMPLETE FOUR-HOUR COURSE ON:

A New Simplified Treatment Method for removal of Varroa and Tracheal mites. Why we have resistance and how to avoid it. Contamination of equipment by pesticides. When to treat, missing the “Cue” and re-infestation. How to test, how many, and when. Testing for resistance and treatment efficacy. Why we use formic acid. Various methods of treatments. Effect of screen bottoms on fumigation and evaporation treatments. How to eliminate negative aspects for which formic acid is blamed. Safe use and handling of liquid formic acid. Status of formic acid use in the USA, Canada and worldwide

The speaker, Bill Ruzicka, is a professional engineer who in 1980 became a bee breeder. He operates 280 hives for pollination and bee stock production in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia Canada and produces 500 super nuks for Alberta each year. He is a keeper of “Vernon Bee Stock.” His operations are highly mechanized and extremely organized reflecting his years as an aircraft engineer. Bill holds a patent to the biological control of Varroa using the fungus Hirsutella Thompsonii. In search for a better formic acid treatment suitable for a commercial operation, he evaluated many existing methods of treatment and compiled a set of principles for successful treatment. (see Design Criteria) The formic acid treatment he developed is now used in Canada, USA, New Zealand, Argentina and Europe. Since 2002 thirty seminars were held in New Zealand, 4 in Europe, 50 in the USA and Canada, and 10 in Argentina including several state, national and regional conventions.

If you wish to organize and reserve a seminar please print and read “How to Book a Seminar” and then contact Bill through Contact Us. In order to have your seminar details published in American Bee Journal, you must book your seminar at least 3 months in advance and before the 15^th of the month. For example: a seminar in October should be published in the September and October issues and to get it into these issues it must be booked by July 15^th.

Year Round –
TELECONFERENCE SEMINARS AND SIMPLIFIED INSTRUCTIONS
With the cost of travel, teleconference seminars are very popular. This one hour question-and-answer format teleconference is for clubs, groups, or individuals in conference calls.

The 2007 revised edition of the Formic Acid Handbook and Manual of Treatments is suitable for personal study or your own presentation for a local bee club. Check for revisions before each use. This handbook and manual are available for free, and are great to use with teleconference seminars as a textbook with pictures and graphs. Posters for Publication and Presentation shall be used for larger meetings.

Year Round MODESTO CALIFORNIA Practical instruction and courses
Register with: Matt Beekman Tel: 1 (209) 988-2823 Email: mattbeekman@usa.net

Summer – April 15 – September 30 KELOWNA, BRITISH COLUMBIA
Practical instruction, mite recognition, testing, and test result interpretation. Learn how to find resistance and treatment efficacy on the first day of a treatment on 24 test hives before you spend money treating all of your hives. This is a great way to justify a trip to the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia and Alaska cruise.

• Seminars Announcements & Locations
  This document is intended for organizations’ executives to discuss organizing and booking seminars.

• How to Book and Organize a Seminar:
  Logistics and why to have a seminar

• Acid Use and Seminars in the USA & World Wide:

• Formic Acid and MiteGone in the USA
  Updated article originally published in BeeCulture March 2004, giving a full explanation of acid, legality in USA, and why it is happening.

• References: New Zealand - location and contacts - Seminars 2002

• References: USA - location and contacts - Seminars 2003

• Agenda - Speaker - Dates & Locations 2004 & 2005

• Europe & Argentina 2006
  (Yet to be published