Observations from beekeepers and Bee Inspectors across the UK suggest that some colonies of bees are becoming short of food. Please monitor your colonies throughout the coming months and feed as required to ensure your bees do not starve. A standard full size British National colony needs between 20-25 kg of stores to successfully overwinter.…
Following a recent recruitment process Julian Parker has been appointed as Head of the National Bee Unit (NBU) within Defra’s Animal and Plant Health Agency. Within the NBU Julian has previously been Acting Head as well as National Bee Inspector and before that Regional Bee Inspector for Southern and South East Regions. Julian has over…
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MIDLANDS AND SOUTH WEST COUNTIES CONVENTION (MSWCC) PERSHORE COLLEGE WORCS A good couple of days; I will certainly try to get to the next one, wherever it is held. Allergy and Anaphylaxis. Prof Stephen O’Hickey from the immunotherapy department of Worcester Royal Hospital went through the various chemicals in bee venom, pointing out that the chemicals causing the initial…
This year I decided that I wanted to do a bit more science with the bees. Following losses in the past my current stocks of bees have all come from locally collected swarms or bait hives. Up until now I have increased stocks by splitting large double brood colonies, harvesting emergency queen cells, harvesting queen…
