Nick Mawby, Author at BIBBA

The Dark Bee Apis mellifera mellifera in the United Kingdom

The article below is based on a lecture given by Philip Denwood to the SICAMM Conference in Landquart, Switzerland, on 1st September 2012 Articles by Dr. Dorian Pritchard,1 and by Norman Carreck2 of the Laboratory of Social Insects at Sussex, have presented the evidence, convincing in my opinion, for the immigration of the honey bee…

BIM 48 – Winter 2016/17

Miniature tracking device – Paul Cross
BIBBA Conference – Viki Cuthbertson

Quest to Improve the Manx honey bee –
Johnny Kipps, et al

Bee house on the Isle-of-Man – Roger Patterson
BIBBA Conference; some thoughts – R Patterson
Varroa resistance – Gareth John
Dark bees in Cornwall – Bob Black
Ardnamurchan native bees – Kate Atchley
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Queen raising criteria in N.E. European Russia –
Anna Brandorf & Marija Ivoilova
Bee Improvement – Roger Patterson

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BIM 47 – Autumn 2016

Queen raising – Alan Brown
Burzyan wild-hive honeybees – R. A. Ilyasov,
M. N. Kosarov. A. Neal, F. G. Yumaguzhin
Queen rearing on the Isle of Man – John Evans
The SMARTBEES project – Jo Widdicombe
Conferences and Workshops – Roger Patterson
Working for a better bee – Mark Edwards
Polynucs – Peter Edwards
QR at Keepers Cottage – Peter Edwards
Black bees in Wales – Eifion Williams

Work with Bangor University

North Wales BIBBA groups have teamed up with South Clwyd Beekeepers and Bangor University.
The first study by Bangor concerned a survey of bee wings throughout South Clwyd. The wings were analysed using DrawWing and Morphplot. The samples were collected by BIBBA breeding groups and members of SCBKA and then tested by a number of BIBBA queen rearers and the Bangor researcher Elise Keller.

BIBBA Queen Rearing Table (Tom’s Table)

The original Microsoft Excel file was written by Angus Stokes and Albert Knight to provide an interactive way to prepare timetables for using the Jenter or Cupkit Cellplug Box. This is a more comprehensive version of “Tom’s Table” that has been rewritten by Roger Patterson in 2015, to include other methods of producing queen cells…

A warm welcome to the BIBBA Conference 2016

We are delighted to be hosting this event on an island where beekeepers have much to celebrate. As well as its Varroa free status, formally endorsed by the European Union, the Isle of Man has also been awarded Biosphere Reserve status by UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere programme, reflecting a successful balance between people and…

New Approach to the Mitotype Classification

The main problem of the black honeybee in Russia and European countries is the preservation of the indigenous gene pool purity; A new approach to the classification of the honeybee M mitotypes was suggested.