BEEKEEPING AND DEVELOPMENT
ASIAN APICULTURAL ASSOCIATION transparencies which illustrate apiculture or bees in Asia {including Apis mellifera) are required. A set of eight pictures will appear in the quarterly journal Honeybee Science (Mitsubachi Kaguku) published by the same Institute.
Send transparencies to the Institute (they will be returned after July). One may win around US$200 per selected picture as well as sets of postcards. We hope to feature pictures of different Apis species as well as beekeeping scenes
The Asian Apicultural Association (AAA) is now established as described in the previous Newsletter To join, please contact AAA at the address below unless you have already done SO.
Vespa mandarinia attacks honeybees in the autumn. One of the new postcards featuring fine drawings of honeybees See Bookshelf (page 10) for further details
The membership fee is US$20.00, but do not send this at the moment. A chapter of AAA in your country will collect the membership fee
Administrative Office: Institute of Honeybee Science,
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Tamagawa University, Machida-shi, Tokyo 194, Japan.
The formal establishment of AAA will be at the Apimondia Congress in Yugoslavia in September. Please gather to celebrate our foundation! You will have several newsletters containing local Asian information on honeybee sciences and apiculture, as well as world-wide ones which refer to Asian aspects.
Call for transparencies The Institute of Honeybee Science, Tamagawa University plans to publish a set of postcards of Asian honeybees, celebrating the establishment of AAA. Attractive colour
LOOKING AHEAD Please note that if you want details of an event to be advertised in this column it is important that you send information to the Editor well in advance of the planned date.
Further details from: Dr Siriwat Wongsiri, Bee Biology Research Unit, Department of Biology, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand.
China
Trinidad and Tobago
XIX International Congress of Entomology.
28 June — 4 July 1992, Beijing. Further details from: Professor Z L Zhang, Secretary-General, XIX international Congress of Entomology, 19 Zhongguancun Lu, Beijing 100080, China. Telex: 222337 ICCST CN; Fax: (861) 2565689.
Ireland International Partnership: alternative trade in the 1990s. 23-28 April 1991, Kilkenny. This event will provide an opportunity for member organisations to brief themselves on the major developments in their field, and to meet representatives of more than 30 producer groups drawn from every continent. Further details from: Ms Carol Bergin, Conference Co-ordinator, New Orchard, Kilkenny, Ireland. Fax: 63220.
New Zealand Annual Conference of the New Zealand Beekeepers’ Association. 15-18 July 1991, Blenheim. Overseas beekeepers and members of the scientific community are welcome to attend as observers. Further details from: R J Clarke, 81 Lakings Road, Blenheim, New Zealand. Tel: 057 89803
Thailand International Symposium on The Asian honeybees and bee mites and APIEXPO 92. 10-14 February 1992, Chulalongkorn University.
Fifth International Conference on Apiculture in Tropical Climates. 7-12 September 1992, University of the West Indies. Further details from: International Bee Research Association, 18 North Road, Cardiff CF1 3DY, UK.
UK 2nd Quadrennial Meeting of the International Society of Hymenopterists. 11-17 August 1991, University of Sheffield. The programme will include papers, posters and symposia on all aspects of Hymenoptera research. Further details from: Paul M Marsh, Systematic Entomology Laboratory, US Department of Agriculture, c/o National Museum of Natural History NHB-168, Washington DC 20560, USA. Tel: (202) 382 1782; Fax: (202) 786 9422.
USA International Conference on Black Locust: biology, culture and utilization. 17-21 June 1991, Michigan State University. One Session will include ‘Honey production’. Further details from: Dr James W Hanover, Department of Forestry, 126 Natural Resources Building, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1222, USA. Fax: (517) 336-1143.
Yugoslavia XXXII
International Congress of Apiculture — APIMONDIA. 29 September — 4 October 1991, Split. Further details from: Poslovna Zajednica ZA, Pcelarstvo Bulevar 17a 11070 Beograd, Yugoslavia. jugoslavije, 11
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