DENNIS VANENGELSDORP

Bee Expert

Dennis started keeping bees after taking an undergraduate course in beekeeping at the university of Guelph, Canada. Once ‘stung’, he pursued a master’s degree in apiculture studying Buckfast bees and honeybee tracheal mites. He then worked for the Canadian Government as a consultant to the Antigua Beekeepers Cooperative, in the West Indies. He returned north to work at Cornell University as an extensionist where he helped develop their master beekeeping program. He is currently employed as the Acting State Apiarist for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, where he is pursuing a PhD part time at Penn State University