NatBIP – May 2020

BIBBA’s Proposal for a National Bee Improvement Programme In January BIBBA published a document outlining its proposal for a national bee improvement programme. This document is available to be viewed on the BIBBA website. It was written with a view to informing other beekeeping associations of our plans and inviting them to contribute to the…

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HAVE YOUR SAY At the end of each BM, we will include this section. We welcome feedback of all kinds and will endeavour to act on each response if we can. Obviously, some people want things that are the opposite of others (have you ever heard about this dilemma in beekeeping?) but all feedback is…

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BBOBI Group – April 2020 Newsletter

We managed to raise over 200 virgin queens last year, all from local stock and distribute them to 67 BBOBI members for mating from early May until mid July. We would like improve our efficiency this year, we tried may ideas. Some worked really well, (grafting from our own stock), some things wasted time, (travelling…

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