“All About Making New Colonies”

Dr. Meghan Milbrath, MSU Dept of Entomology

Meghan will speak on the benefits of using NUCs - We will discuss how to make NUCs mid-summer for apiary expansion, for sale, and for maintaining queens.  We will cover why NUCs are useful, what equipment you need, how to make them up, and how to maintain them.  

Meghan Milbrath is an assistant professor in the Department of Entomology at MSU, where she studies honeybee diseases, focusing on transmission risk and treatment.  Dr. Milbrath is also a beekeeper - she began working bees over 25 years ago as a hobby, and since 2011, has run The Sand Hill Apiary, a small livestock and queen rearing operation in Munith, Michigan. She studied biology at St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN, and received degrees in public health from Tulane University and the University of Michigan, where she focused on environmental health sciences and disease transmission risk.  Meghan worked as a postdoctoral research associate at Michigan State University, studying Nosema disease and in the honeybee lab at Swedish Agricultural University. 

Dr. Milbrath's MSU web page
Megan's Sand Hill Bees site