Posts by Nick Mawby
Selecting within a Strain
Varroa – is the end nigh?
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Webinars – Season Two
- Tuesday 18th August 7:30pm – Roger Patterson – “Dead Bees Don’t Buzz – Surviving the Winter “
- Tuesday 25th August 7:30pm – Lynfa Davies – “The Mystery of Mating”
- Tuesday 1st September 7:30pm – Roger Patterson – “Challenge what you are told……….”
- Tuesday 8th September 7:30pm – Peter Jenkins – “The KISS Approach”
News for Non-Members July 2020
Beo Cooper’s book: These articles are available in full in BIBBA Monthly for members
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First, some background info. I’m Nick Mawby and have been a BIBBA member for 40 years. I’d had nothing to do with BIBBA organisation until 2015, when I complained to Roger Patterson that the website had not been updated in the four years since Dave Cushman had died. His response was, “well you sort it…
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Which webinar is for you?
Beekeepers learn at very different rates, so it is difficult to advise which one to watch
The Early Years assumes that attendees have their own bees and can manage them reasonably efficiently.
Intermediate/advanced is aimed at attendees who have successfully overwintered bees at least twice.
Selecting our Breeder Queens
BIBBA Monthly – July 2020
The Honeybees of the British Isles
mellifera) and covers their characteristics, supersedure, management, breeding, selection and mating behaviour, including an explanation of apiary vicinity mating and the formation of drone assemblies.
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