Uncategorized

Two further BIBBA webinar dates for your diary are 1st December and 8th December. The webinars will be presented by Adam Tofilski, a Polish Entomologist. More details will be added to the BIBBA website soon and included in the November BM.

A BIBBA member wishes to sell their bee business in its entirety as an ongoing entity. The sale would include all assets, stock and sales contracts as well as the branding associated with the company. The sale is a private sale. If anyone is interested in acquiring a relatively new, profitable…

This month’s download is from 1920 and is called “The Natural History of the Bee”, written by John Anderson. As well as some lovely hand-drawn details of bee anatomy, there is another book tagged on from page 36 called “How to Handle Bees”, from the same author. You can download…

We are almost half way through our third round of NatBIP webinars. Thanks to Jo for opening the topic with two sessions which included a lot of good questions from the attendees at each event. Thanks also to Norman Carreck for his scientific perspective on the bees and, most recently,…

For myself and my local association, Wisborough Green BKA (WGBKA) in West Sussex, where I am Apiary Manager, I usually produce at least 100 queens per year. This is mainly to replace poorer queens in honey producing colonies, provide queens to head nucs for new beekeepers and for members who need queens for a variety of reasons. We try to encourage members to rear their own queens, but sometimes their bees need requeening with better stock. As many beekeepers only have a couple of colonies, they may not have bees that are good to propagate from. A BKA teaching apiary can be a genetic resource to distribute good local stock from.
read full article

Welcome to the October Newsletter. I try to help new beekeepers on their beekeeping journey. I have somewhat ‘adopted’ a couple of first year beekeepers who bought Buckfast nucs this year and then contacted me for help. One had two colonies on commercial frames. Both colonies swarmed in June. The…

All webinars start at 7:30pm on Tuesdays; click the link from 7:25pm or go to zoom.us and enter the zoom id code listed after each date below to join the webinar; you do not need to pre-register for each webinar, but can sign up for reminders. You will need to…

Thanks for signing up to receive reminders on the current season of webinars on the National Bee Improvement Programme. You will also receive updates on BIBBA activities. We will register you as a supporter of NatBIP so that you receive information on progress in the future. Will will undeavour to…

Webinar – Season Three SIGN UP for future news on the National Bee Improvement Programme and login details for Season Three Webinars Sign Up Here For this series of webinars you will not need to pre-register for each webinar, instead the login code will be put on the website and…

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!