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BBKA President Margaret Wilson writes a monthly letter to members. Margaret started writing Positive Thinking as she felt members needed to hear positive things about the BBKA. The most recent is listed below available to download and read. December 2020 –
Monday 18 January 2021 More than 25,000 beekeepers are calling on the government to withdraw the derogation permitting the use of neonicotinoids on sugar beet and to allow no further breaches of the commitment to ban their use. The annual delegate meeting, held online on Saturday 16 January, backed a motion from Hampshire delegate John Lauwery who said…
Dr Nicholas Balfour and colleagues at Sussex University were recipients of funding from BBKA in 2018 for an unusual and interesting project on building an online data base of pollinator interactions. This is intended to be open access when it becomes active (hopefully later in 2020) so that anyone can search it for any plant…
This is a re-issue of the guidance provided in October 2020: Please find the latest Covid-19 beekeeping guidance. The update includes separate links to the current Public Health Guidance for England, Wales and Scotland. Covid-19_and_Beekeeping_Update_v3 COVID-19_and_Beekeeping_-_Welsh_Language_Version v3 If you have any queries please contact: For England: [email protected] Wales: [email protected] / [email protected] Scotland: [email protected]
This is a re-issue of the guidance provided in October 2020: Please find the latest Covid-19 beekeeping guidance. The update includes separate links to the current Public Health Guidance for England, Wales and Scotland. Covid-19_and_Beekeeping_Update_v3 COVID-19_and_Beekeeping_-_Welsh_Language_Version v3 If you have any queries please contact: For England: [email protected] Wales: [email protected] / [email protected] Scotland: [email protected]
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…
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…