What are honey bees, anyway?
Bees of all kinds belong to the order of insects known as Hymenoptera, literally “membrane wings”. This order, comprising some 100,000 species,
November 2022 BIBBA Monthly
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A Simple Method of Simultaneously Raising Queens and Producing Nuclei
The method described here aims to simultaneously produce both queens and nuclei and would probably suit a medium-sized beekeeping operation, a few beekeepers working together, or an association’s breeding programme.
Improving bees by raising your own queens
The improvement of bees is an important part of beekeeping. The suitability of bees to the environment and their temper are issues that concern the caring beekeeper, but are not often included in tuition.
This course will cover many of the topics and techniques that will suit the “ordinary” beekeeper, with a large practical element
NatBIP – May 2020
BIBBA’s Proposal for a National Bee Improvement Programme In January BIBBA published a document outlining its proposal for a national bee improvement programme. This document is available to be viewed on the BIBBA website. It was written with a view to informing other beekeeping associations of our plans and inviting…
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
John Dew’s Views – the Best Bee
There is a tendency amongst some beekeepers to believe that the “grass is greener on the other side of the fence”, that imported bees are superior to the indigenous bee