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BIM 49 – Spring 2017
- From the President – Jo Widdicombe
- Trials and Tribulations – Frank Hilton
- Are you a Natural Beekeeper? – Brian Dennis
- Natural Beekeeping – Philip Denwood
- Racial Profiling of Mongrels – Paul Honigmann
- Bee Improvement and QR – R Patterson
- History of Manx beekeeping – Cilla Platt
- Making Increase – Brian Dennis
- Locally Adapted Bees – Wally Shaw
- Bee Races in Switzerland – Balser & Padruot Fried
- B4 Press Release – Plymouth University
- SICAMM Conference – Eoghan Mac Giolla Coda
- Intelligence v. Chemical Responses – Brian Dennis
- This is a non-smoking area – Brian Dennis
BIM 47 – Autumn 2016
- Queen raising – Alan Brown
- Burzyan wild-hive honeybees – R. A. Ilyasov,
- M. N. Kosarov. A. Neal, F. G. Yumaguzhin
- Queen rearing on the Isle of Man – John Evans
- The SMARTBEES project – Jo Widdicombe
- Conferences and Workshops – Roger Patterson
- Working for a better bee – Mark Edwards
- Polynucs – Peter Edwards
- QR at Keepers Cottage – Peter Edwards
- Black bees in Wales – Eifion Williams
Keith Pierce “Apideas: Their operation and maintenance”
I have been beekeeping now for over 25 years, selectively rearing queens of our Dark Native Irish Bee, Apis mellifera mellifera. My selection program is based on the ability of my bees to over-winter strongly, together with disease resistance, docility, productivity, colour and more. My home and main mating apiary…
“Bee Improvement for All” (BIFA) Days
“Bee Improvement for all” is a one day course that is designed to help beekeepers to improve their bees by using some of the opportunities that bees give them during the season, as well as giving information to those who wish to raise more queens .
John Harding Queen Rearing
The main purpose of this systemis its versatility and to have an additional use so you always double its value in purpose, and it’s not lying around for the best part of the year unused. Given the choice honeybees prefer vertical narrow empty spaces with unlimited depth, and just enough space to build 5 or6 combs side by side…
Webinars – Season Two
List of Presentations
- Tuesday 18th August 7:30pm – Roger Patterson – “Dead Bees Don’t Buzz – Surviving the Winter “
- Tuesday 25th August 7:30pm – Lynfa Davies – “The Mystery of Mating”
- Tuesday 1st September 7:30pm – Roger Patterson – “Challenge what you are told……….”
- Tuesday 8th September 7:30pm – Peter Jenkins – “The KISS Approach”
Caging Virgin Queens
Comparing Alternative Methods for Holding Virgin Honey Bee Queens for One Week in Mailing Cages before Mating
NatBIP News No13
The use of imported queens may provide temporary relief to issues of quality in our bees but have not provided stability within the population as a whole.
NatBIP News No12
December 2022 Jo Widdicombe The National Bee Improvement Programme (NatBIP) aims to reset the widely accepted approach to bee improvement which, for many, consists in buying in new queens to improve the quality of their bees. Unfortunately, bringing in queens of exotic sub-species at best only produces a temporary improvement…