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

Speaker Ana Heck joined Michigan State University in January 2019 to support pollinator education initiatives, honeybee research, and implementation of policies to protect pollinators. Heck learned how to keep bees in Nicaragua while working with a sustainable agriculture team and women’s beekeeping cooperative from 2011 through 2013. She joined the University of Minnesota Bee Lab’s Bee Squad in 2014, where she managed apiaries, provided hands-on and classroom training to beekeepers, and managed Bee Squad outreach and Extension programs. Heck holds a Master’s degree in Public Policy and a graduate minor in Entomology from the University of Minnesota and a B.A. in Philosophy and Spanish from Creighton University.