Liz Frost

New South Wales, Australia Dept of Ag, Honey Bee Technical Specialist

Liz has worked with honey bees since 2008 and stingless bees since 2014. Liz got her start with bees at UC Davis with Sue Cobey, Kim Fondrk and Brian Johnson where she worked at the bee lab for four years after finishing her bachelor degrees. From there she worked on the Bee Informed Partnership California and Midwest tech teams for two seasons, started E. Frost Apicultural Services providing queen breeding and insemination contract work since 2013 to California and international queen breeders, broke the internet with her UMN bee bikini, went to work for queen breeders in Australia for a season, and eventually became ‘Technical Specialist - Bees’ for the Department of Primary Industries in New South Wales, Australia. In Australia Liz kick-started accredited beekeeper training at Tocal Agricultural College, helped develop assistance for bushfire and drought-affected beekeepers, started the Australia-specific extension website Professional Beekeepers with DPI and USYD’s Dr Nadine Chapman, undertook pollination research and co-managed Plan Bee, Australia’s National Honey Bee Genetic Improvement Program, funded under a federal grant. Liz is also a part-time masters by research candidate at the University of New England Animal Genetics and Breeding Unit where she seeks to marry her US and AU commercial beekeeping and research experience with advancements in livestock genetics for the betterment of invertebrate livestock.