DR. LEWIS BARTLETT is an assistant professor at the University of Georgia and Director of the UGA Bee Lab, with a mandate to work on Pollinator Health. He has been beekeeping for over 12 years since he started his training in Yorkshire, England, where he was born. He specialises in the biology of parasites and infectious diseases and the health of honey bees. Lewis has trained in Leeds, York, Cambridge, and Falmouth in the UK and in San Francisco California, Athens and Atlanta in Georgia while in America. His work started in understanding what drives outbreaks of honey bee diseases and has grown to cover everything from nutrition to pesticides in determining the health of honey bees. Much of his current work is exploring new controls and treatments for foulbrood diseases, Small Hive Beetles, varroa mites, and Yellow-legged hornets.