Amelia Hope Cadwell

Beekeeper/ Researcher/ Integrated Pest Management Specialist

Since founding the beekeeping program at Franklin & Marshall College, Amelia Cadwell has been on a mission to understand regulatory change in farming and its impact on bees and beekeeping. Amelia studied comparative policy between the EU and the US on neonicotinoid regulation to learn about how regulatory change impacts bees as well as the ability to grow food. During an internship with National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore, she helped develop take-action campaigns for pollinator health on social media.

Amelia chose to move to Fresno California, the almond capital of the world, where she worked in Research & Development for a commercial beekeeping operation. She worked to develop commercially scalable treatments for varroa mite as well as hive monitoring technology, and became well versed in hive grading, hive brokering, queen-rearing, and nosema analysis. At Suttera, Amelia has made it her career to help protect bees and beneficial insects in California by helping farmers reduce their pesticide sprays via implementation of mating disruption.

Outside of being in the field, Amelia enjoys speaking on these topics at conferences such as World Ag Expo and Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers.