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HCBA General Meeting Information:
Next meeting: Tuesday, March 10, 2026
We hope to see you at our upcoming general meeting at Howard County Fairgrounds Dining Hall on the second Tuesday of each month. Our meeting will start at 7:00 PM.
We'll have our regular HCBA business update, and don't forget to come to our pre-meeting open discussion and Q&A that starts at 6:30 PM.
We are looking forward to seeing you!
The March 10, 2026 meeting will start at 7:00 PM.
This meeting will be in person and simulcast.
Our March guest speaker will be Zach Lamas, who will share new findings on the varroa mite.
About our presenter:
Zach Lamas is a researcher studying virus transmission in honey bee (Apis mellifera) colonies.
Most students take a gap year before graduate school. Zachtook a decade-long gap. During that time in his life, he ran a bio-dynamic farm, milking cows and pasture-raised poultry for CSA members. He managed fine-dining restaurants at luxury hotels and spent winters roofing houses in North Carolina. And during most of that timehe travelled up and down the east coast of the United States producing and selling thousands of honey bee colonies and queens.
After this time, Zach pursued a PhD while answering one question: How can relatively few mites kill a populous honey bee colony? Zach has worked as a post-doctoral researcher in the Evan’s Lab in Beltsville, MD at the USDA-ARS Bee Research Laboratory, where his work uses functional genomics to attempt to link behaviors with the genes and pathogens that regulate them.