Robert E. Page and Thomas D. Seeley will be key speakers at the XXXXIII Apimondia International Apicultural Congress

World renowned academicians and authors of outstanding books on the subjects of social behavior, psychology of bee colonies, and bee ecology, are now confirmed key speakers at the Scientific Program of the XXXXIII International Apimondia Congress. Robert E. Page is key speaker in the Bee Biology Commission and Thomas D. Seeley is key speaker in the Beekeeping for Rural Development Commission. 

Robert E. Page is Vice Provost and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Foundation Professor of Life Sciences at the Arizona State University. He was Founding Director of the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University and Chair of Entomology at the University of California, Davis. Currently focusing on the evolution of complex social behavior, Robert E. Page has published more than 200 research papers and articles on population genetics and social behavior. He received the Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist Award, was elected to the Leopoldina - the German National Academy of Science. He is Elected Foreign Member of the Brazilian Academy of Science, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Elected Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study Berlin. 

Thomas D. Seeley is Biology Professor at the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior at Cornell University. He received his PhD from Harvard and was Fellow at the Society of Fellows at Harvard, Professor at Yale University and at Cornell University. He was Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study Berlin and Visiting Professor at the University of Wurzburg. Thomas D. Seeley is author of prominent books “Honeybee Ecology”, “The Wisdom of the Hive: The Social Physiology of Honeybee Colonies”, and “Honeybee Democracy”.  Thomas D. Seeley received the Alexander von Humbold Distinguished U.S. Scientist Prize, was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship, and received the Gold Medal Book Award by Apimondia for his book “The Wisdom of the Hive: The Social Physiology of Honeybee Colonies”. He was elected Fellow of the Animal Behavior Society and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The most enduring award of Thomas D. Seeley is the species of bee named after him: Neocorynurella seeleyi.

Ukrainian beekeepers actively participate in the preparation of the XXXXIII International Apicultural Congress

The Office of the Organizing Committee of the XXXXIII International Apicultural Congress is a kind of beehive with an active life and work within. The daily routine of the All-Ukrainian NGO “Brotherhood of Ukrainian Beekeepers” and of course the preparation of the beekeepers community’s Global event, namely the XXXXIII International Apicultural Congress, is being done here.

Cooperation with Producers and Community

On December 14, 2012 a Board Meeting and General Meeting of the Organizing Committee of the XXXXIII International Apimondia Congress was held in the International Exhibition Center (Kyiv).

The Purpose of the meeting: the discussion of opportunities, prospects and terms of participation for Ukrainian producers working in the field of beekeeping, in the Programs of the XXXXIII International Apimondia Congress to be held from September 29 to October 4, 2012 in Ukraine in Kyiv at the International Exhibition Center (the Tourism Program covers all regions of Ukraine and will take place from September 23 to October 14, 2013).

The meeting was attended by the Deputy Director of the Livestock Markets Department of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Mr. Volodymyr A. Pyshcholka.

The meeting was also attended by the invited heads of enterprises – producers of beekeeping products, beekeeping equipment and implements, exporters of beekeeping products, queen breeding experts from the AR of Crimea, Vinnytsia, Volyn, Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Zhytomyr, Zakarpattya, Zaporizhzhia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kirovograd, Kyiv, Luhansk, Lviv, Mykolayiv, Odesa, Poltava, Sumy, Kharkiv, Kherson, Khmelnytsky, Cherkasy, Chernihiv regions, Kyiv and Sevastopol, as well as representatives of foreign comoanies: ATS Ukraine (France – Ukraine), Primavet-Sofia Ltd. (Bulgaria).

The meeting was attended by the invited Heads of regional working commissions of the Organizing Committee of the XXXXIII international Apimondia Congress; heads of beekeeping NGOs that are partners of the Organizing Committee of the XXXXIII International Apimondia Congress.

The Director of the International Exhibition Center, the Organizer of the Exhibition ApiExpo 2013 Anatoliy V. Tkachenko delivered a welcoming speech at the meeting.

Participation of the official delegation of Ukraine in the XIX Apislavia Congress.Part 2. Events. Results. Plans.

The second day of the XIX Apislavia Congress – 21 September – began at the Congress Center of the Agricultural University of Lublin.

The Agricultural University is one of the most powerful institutions of higher education in Poland. More than 40 thousand students have already received a higher education at the university. At the university students study in over 15 specialties. The university has more than 800 scientists and teachers.

Commemoration of P.I.Prokopovych

The President of the Organizing Committee of the XXXXIII International Apimondia Congress, Chairman of the Board of NGO “Brotherhood of Ukrainian beekeepers” Tetyana Vasylkivska, Deputy Chairman of the “Brotherhood of Ukrainian beekeepers” Serhiy Shmulya, Head of the Kyiv regional organization of  the “Brotherhood of Ukrainian beekeepers” Vitaliy Davydenko and Head of the Chernihiv regional organization of  the “Brotherhood of Ukrainian beekeepers” Petro Balash on July 7, 2012 visited home of the famous Ukrainian beekeeper P.I. Prokopovych and commemorated him in the village Palchyky, where he is buried. It has become a tradition in the "Brotherhood" before the birthday of the outstanding figure to put flowers on his grave, visiting the village of Palchyky.