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CHINA

XIX International Congress of Entomology.

28 June - 4 July 1992, Beijing.

Further details from Professor Zhang, Secretary-General, XIX International Congress of Entomology, China.

THAILAND

International Symposium on The Asian honeybees and bee mites and APIEXPO 92.

10-14 February 1992, Chulalongkorn University.

Further details from: Bee Biology Research Unit, Department of Biology, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok.

THE GAMBIA

First West African Beekeeping Research Seminar.

23-28 November 1991. Friendship Hostel, Bakau.

Further details from AFET, Brikama Town, The Gambia.

TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO

Fifth International Conterence on Apiculture in Tropical Climates.

7-12 September 1992, University of the West Indies.

Further details from: International Bee Research Association, Cardiff.

USA

International Workshop on Non-Apis Bees and their Role as Crop Pollinators August 1992, Logan, Utah.

The purpose of the Workshop will be to facilitate exchange of current information on all aspects of bee biology and to improve prospects for establishing non-Apis bees as crop pollinators The four-day Workshop will include both invited symposia and contributed papers.

Day 2 will be devoted to the biology, nest associates and management of leafcutting bees (Megachile). Day 2 will be set aside tor similar discussions of other pollinators, including Bombus and Osmuia Days and will be reserved for bee ecology, behaviour, evolution, biosystematics and other basic research topics.

Further details from Dr John Vandenberg, USDA-ARS Bee Biology and Systematics Laboratory, Utah State University.

STOP PRESS

THE XXXIII INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF APICULTURE (APIMONDIA) HAS NOW BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL 1992.

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