[…]training sessions on topics such as practical queen rearing, hive manipulation techniques, record keeping and assessment for breeder potential. If you are interested in finding out more about the Group please contact Alan Wilkins the Group Secretary on The BIBBA East Midlands Bee Improvement Group is participating in The National Bee Improvement Programme – […]
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[…]time being practical and feasible for bee-keepers to complete. It will require you to measure and record specific parameters throughout the season, some of which you would be completed as part of your usual routine. We need as many people to fill in the survey as possible and the project relies on the bee keeping community for its success. The […]
[…]know from past experience that many beekeepers just don’t observe their colonies with a view to recording what they see, and it is difficult to see where you’re going if you are not looking. We live in hope. During the course of our work with the beekeepers of the area, we have met and made new beekeeping friends. Among these […]
[…]have been disappearing massively all over the world. In the most affected apiaries, beekeepers record up to 90% loss (dead bees, unable to produce honey or which never return). This phenomenon is called the “bee colony collapse syndrome”. In Europe, annual mortality rates between 2012 and 2014 were around 23% on average *, against 5% to 10% of natural mortality. In […]
[…]Unwin Local Queen Programme – Roger Patterson Assessment of colonies – Jo Widdicombe The BIBBA record card – Philip Denwood Groups – Terry Clare A model agreement – Terry Clare Queen rearing group – Roger Patterson Warnholz Mini BiVo nuc – Dave Cushman The Harding Mini Nuc – John Harding Bee improvement – Roger Patterson Entombment follow-up – Dave Cushman […]
[…]hundredweights of honey in jars and tins to buyers in England for their own use and to retail. Records show that honey was traded off the island much earlier, in fact in the 17th and 18th centuries. Interesting how they did this, in what must have been skep beekeeping, and everything being transported by sea. It is recorded that by […]
[…]covered will include: Setting the criteria you want in your bees. How to handle, assess and record colonies. Deciding which colonies to use queen cells from and which queens to cull. Using natural queen cells the bees build. Producing “Artificial” queen cell using grafting, cell punching, cell plugs and the Miller method Clipping and marking queens Changing queens in colonies […]
[…]covered will include: Setting the criteria you want in your bees. How to handle, assess and record colonies. Deciding which colonies to use queen cells from and which queens to cull. Using natural queen cells the bees build. Producing “Artificial” queen cell using grafting, cell punching, cell plugs and the Miller method Clipping and marking queens Changing queens in colonies […]
[…]Form This form is based on the Galtee Bee Breeding Group’s ten column method of recording developed by Micheál Mac Giolla Coda DOWNLOAD Tom Robinson’s Table This Microsoft Excel file was written by Angus Stokes and Albert Knight and provides an interactive way to prepare timetables for using the Jenter or Cupkit Cellplug Box. The original table written in 1995; It […]
