“Evaluating Honeybee Brood Frames”

Ana Heck, MSU Apiculture Extension Educator

Learn to distinguish between healthy and sick brood and to recognize signs of European Foulbrood, American Foulbrood, chalkbrood, and varroa parasitic mite brood syndrome.

Ana Heck is Michigan State University’s Apiculture Extension Educator. She began working with honeybees in Nicaragua, and then she worked with the University of Minnesota Bee Squad and Michigan State University, Department of Entomology before joining Extension. Her role engages beekeepers, growers, pesticide applicators, and home gardeners to improve the health of pollinators. Ana holds a master’s degree in public policy and a graduate minor in Entomology from the University of Minnesota.

Ana’s MSU web page