Beekeepers with a common goal to promote the cultivation of the best strain of bees for our locality.
BIPCo Bee Improvement Programme for Cornwall-PL17
beekeepers who wish to conserve the Cornish Dark Honey Bee
Mount Edgcumbe Cornish Bee Group – PL10
England’s first Black Bee Reserve was opened in 2017 at Mount Edgcumbe on the Rame Peninsula. The group focuses on education, conservation of Amm and ways to improve local stock.
Cheshire Honeybee Improvement Partnership (CHIP)- CW9
Formed in 2016 by a group of Cheshire-based BIBBA members to help form local queen rearing groups to aid the improvement of local bees and support the objectives of BIBBA
Exeter Beekeepers – EX1
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Wight Bee Improvement Group
Queen Rearing will only be carried out using IOW mongrel stock, members will be encouraged to keep records of all their own stock, using only those considered to be worthy of passing on their bloodlines
Lancashire Black Bee Project
We currently run 12 breeding apiaries across Lancashire with a further two in North Wales.
Kings Orchard – East Cornwall
Based in East Cornwall a small group with the emphasis of breeding pedigree lines of Cornish Native dark bees
South Devon Bee Improvers Group – TQ9
We aim to breed and encourage the keeping of native and near-native bees in SDBIG Area: Devon, south of Exeter and including the eastern side of Dartmoor and Plymouth
Abberton Native Bee Group/ Essex 4 Bees – CO2
Native bee breeding group based at Abberton Reservoir