Book download This month’s download is from 1907 and is called “Facts about bees”, written by E. Root. It’s fascinating to know just how much information was around a hundred years ago despite no internet and email!

Mated and virgin queens through the post Welcome to the September Newsletter. I mentioned last month that I’d been receiving mated and virgin queens through the post as part of the NatBIP piloting process. Each batch survived the postal journey from East Sussex to Cheshire and we picked up useful…

Cupkit, Fakes and Annoyance “Cupkit” is a name that is used in the U.K. and Ireland for a cell plug queen rearing system that is designed and manufactured by Nicot in France.  Elsewhere in the world it is called “Cupularve”.  As a system I like it, but I think you…

Reserve signage, Oban ferry terminal CONSERVING BLACK BEES (Apis mellifera mellifera) in the Hebrides, Scotland by ANDREW ABRAHAMS, via the American Bee Journal Readers might ask, why on earth spend much of a lifetime con­serving what most beekeepers perceive as an aggressive, unproduc­tive race of honey bee — a race…

22nd Sept       “The National Bee Improvement Programme – Outline”  Jo Widdicombe

29th Sept        “More details of the National Bee Improvement Programme and Participation”     Jo Widdicombe

6thOct            “Global pandemics, bee imports and native bees”    Norman Carreck

13th Oct          “My 50 years experiences of imported bees affecting local stock”        Peter Jenkins

20th Oct          “Resilient Honeybees”    Grace McCormack

27th Oct          “Where we are, how we got here and how we can move on…….”    Roger Patterson

3rd Nov           “Some Fresh Ideas for Teaching and Learning”    Roger Patterson

10th Nov         “Bees and queens for everyone”   Roger Patterson

17th Nov         “Answering Your Questions”        All Speakers