Training Apiary Tidy Continues
The training apiary is looking really nice and organised now.
Bees Needs Week
Bees Needs Week 2020 13-19 July The BBKA will be sharing our favourite beekeeping moments on our social media: sharing our members photos of their beekeeping under lockdown and our most popular stories from the last 12 months. Follow us on social media Winners of the Bees Needs Week Awards for 2020 included Manchester & District…
Genetics – A talk by Margaret Murdin, Past President of the BBKA
Genetics – A talk by Margaret Murdin, Past President of the BBKA, Tuesday 16th March 2021, 7.00pm A talk by Margaret Murdin which will explain genetics very simply. It will start with human genetics and move on to honey bees. We will look at why the queen needs to mate many times, diploid drones, patrilines and…
Bear Cool Honey Company Supporting the BBKA to Save Our Bees
Help and support Bear Cool Honey Company as we support the British Beekeepers Association raising funds for research into the threats our beautiful honeybees face. Every year the British Beekeepers Association selects scientific projects from a wide range of subjects that benefit bees and beekeeping. These might include bee behaviour, bee husbandry, pollination, forage or…
Petition to stop importing honeybees
The problem is that at least one beekeeping business has said that they want to import bees to the UK through Northern Ireland. The bees they are sourcing come from southern Italy where a serious invasive species and parasite of bees, the Small Hive Beetle is established. The inspections on bees are extremely limited and…
Importing Bees “against best practice for our environment”
24 March 2021 Beekeeping Associations, from all around the UK, are in agreement that the importation of bees from overseas is totally against best practises for the protection of our environment. The problem is that at least one beekeeping business has said that they want to import bees to the UK through Northern Ireland. The…
How can training and information sources for beekeepers and bee farmers be improved? Have your say by taking our survey.
Defra and the Welsh Government want to ensure that beekeepers and bee farmers have access to training and information that can help them implement effective biosecurity and maintain good standards of husbandry, so as to minimise pest and disease risks and improve the sustainability of honeybee populations. A short questionnaire is available for current beekeepers,…
Donations from the BBKA Spring Convention for Beekeeping Research
Donations from the BBKA Spring Convention for Beekeeping Research If you are having a great time at the Spring Convention and consider it a bargain, or if more than one person in your household is sharing a registration to the Spring Convention and you would like to contribute further, then additional donations are very welcome. Rather like…
Develop young beekeepers
Junior Certificate Our Junior Certificate promotes the knowledge of Apis Mellifera throughout the UK The Junior certificate consists of 4 elements 10 minutes of questions Examine a frame of bees; identifying the 3 kinds of bees i.e workers, drones and The Queen Presenting a piece of creative homework related to bees Present a beekeeping diary…
UK GDPR Privacy Policy
The British Beekeepers Association (BBKA) is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Policy (together with our websites terms of use and any other documents referred to on it) explains when and why we collect personal information about people who visit our website, how we use it, the conditions under which we may disclose it…