Webinar Masters Program in Agricultural Biotechnology About Bees ‘’ Honeybee Pheromones & Swarming Behaviour”

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• Jumat, 25 Februari 2022
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Master of Agricultural Biotechnology Study Program, Faculty of Agriculture, Udayana University in collaboration with the College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences, University of Minnesota, USA held a webinar on "Honeybee Pheromones & Swarming Behavior" which was held in the form of guest lectures. The guest lecture was held online with speaker Katrina Klett, PhD Student from the College of Food, Agriculture & Natural Resource Sciences University of Minnesota, USA. The guest lecture, which was held on Friday, February 25, 2022, was opened directly by the Koprodi Masters in Agricultural Biotechnology, Dr. GN Alit Susanta Wirya, S.P., M.Agr., and moderated by one of the lecturers in the Master of Agricultural Biotechnology, I Putu Sudiarta, S.P., M.Sc., Ph.D. In his brief remarks, Koprodi hopes that activities like this can become routine activities carried out at the Faculty of Agriculture, Unud, so that they can increase knowledge horizons and provide research inspiration for students and researchers at the Faculty. Agriculture..

Katrina in her one-hour presentation conveyed about the importance of the existence of bees to the balance of ecosystems in nature, then how the behavior of bee swarming, and how the interactions of bees in the colony are related to the hormones they produce. In relation to the world of agriculture, where bees are very useful as pollinators that can increase crop productivity, it is conveyed how to take care of bees, and use them as honey producers. also .

Participants in the guest lecture, which was attended by 75 participants from students and lecturers at the Faculty of Agriculture, Udayana University, were very enthusiastic about the topics presented by the presenters, so that many questions were raised in the discussion. At the end of her presentation, Katrine also revealed about beekeeping conditions in the USA, where the climate and conditions are very different from those in Indonesia. And to find out more about the behavior and existence of bees in Indonesia, especially Bali Kathrine also conducted research on honey bees in Bali, collaborating with several lecturers at the Faculty of Agriculture, Unud. (Disk)