At MABA’s November 11 meeting our speaker will be UGA doctoral student Ian Collins. who will be speaking about small hive beetles. Small hive beetles are an imported pest that beekeepers in the South struggle with. Ian will cover their history and discuss a variety of ways to control small hive beetles in your colonies including cultural, biological, and chemical control methods.
Ian Collins is a PhD student in the Honey Bee lab at the University of Georgia under Dr. Lewis Bartlett. He received his bachelor’s degree in environmental science from the UGA Department of Entomology in 2021, and then stayed at UGA as a research technician at the honey bee lab. His research focuses on using Chlorantraniliprole as a deterrent for small hive beetles in artificial pollen supplemental feeding and as an attract and kill bait in beetle traps.