Free-Living Honey Bees

Free-Living Bees: Nature’s Unmanaged Colonies Introduction When most people think about bees, they picture neatly painted hives in tidy rows, tended by beekeepers in protective suits. While this is the familiar image of beekeeping, it’s only part of the story. All over the world — including here in the UK — there are honey bee…

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VR July 2025

Uncapping

Varroa Resistant Colonies VR behaviour during and after the main flow The main flow has ended abruptly in the southeast of England – hedgerows are full of immature blackberries and the white clover is also all but over. With not a lot of borage in this area, my bees are now on Himalayan Balsam, with…

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VR June 2025

Varroa Resistant Colonies The heritability of varroa resistant traits Conditions for queen raising have been ideal in the southeast of England so far this year, with lots of pollen and nectar in the hives to produce copious Royal Jelly, drones in abundance and long spells of good weather for virgin queens to get out and…

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Newsletter template 2025

Row concave Shape Decorative svg added to bottom BIBBA Monthly Newsletter April 2025 CONTENTS Varroa Resistant Colonies – April Update Early Swarms This Year Another Successful BBKA Spring Convention A Taste Of Honey – Sensory Analysis applied to Honey Watch the latest Live@TheHive Call for Articles – Have you got a story to share Varroa…

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April 2025 BIBBA Monthly-Original

  • Varroa Resistant Colonies – April Update
  • Early Swarms This Year
  • Another Successful BBKA Spring Convention
  • A Taste Of Honey – Sensory Analysis applied to Honey
  • Watch the latest Live@TheHive
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Inquiry into Animal and Plant Health

Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee Inquiry into Animal and Plant Health Background The UK directly imports a significant number of queens each year (Defra 2021), with the majority of these originating in Europe. Packages, colonies and queens can also be imported from mainland Europe via the Republic of Ireland to Northern Ireland. The legislative…

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Live@theHive

Over the summer months, BIBBA is broadcasting a series of live apiary demonstrations.
The events will be live streamed on YouTube which will allow an unlimited audience, but they will not be able to ask questions.
A limited number of BIBBA members will be able to sign up to a WhatsApp group, where they will be able to post questions which we will attempt to answer live.

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