April 2021 Winter Meeting
ZoomWSBKA Winter meeting, we will be joined by Elli Leadbeater Professor of Ecology and Evolution at Holloway University.
WSBKA Winter meeting, we will be joined by Elli Leadbeater Professor of Ecology and Evolution at Holloway University.
An online talk by Virginia Zanni, from the Udine University, Italy on "How does Varroa mite affect honey bees' behaviour?"
Our AGM plus a Kevin Thorn our chair will be our speaker for the evening.
Richard Noel, a Jersey-born beekeeper in Brittany talking about the Asian hornets and how they deal with it there.
Our last meeting of the winter season is on April 14th at 7.30p.m., face-to-face at Lawshall Village Hall: a Quiz-the-Experts session and plenty for time for cake and a natter with old friends. Please would you let me know by Sunday 9th April if you hope to attend as our cakemakers need to have an idea … Continue reading →
October 13th, 7.30p.m. at Nowton Village Hall, IP29 5NE. Graham and Marika Sigley will tell us about teaching beekeeping to the inmates and staff at Wayland Open Prison. All being well, further dates will be November 10th, January 12th, February 9th, March 9th and April 13th.
Our speaker at the November meeting will be Colin Bell on running the Cambridge BKA's queen-rearing apiary: the workload, problems he encounters and their solutions.
Jeremy Quinlan, master beekeeper of Ipswich and East Suffolk BKA, topic yet to be decided
Our AGM and Chris Chilver will be talking on Preparing for Spring
March 9th, 7.30 - 9.30., Nowton Village Hall, IP29 5NE. Theodora Rubensaal Commandeur will be updating us on her EARS-sponsored research into CBPV. She will be accompanied by Dr Giles Budge.
This will be a talk by Nynke Blomer, a post-graduate student at Cambridge University and a member of the agroecology group. She has only just begun her current project, researching how honey bees and bumbles share the agricultural landscape, and this is what she'll be informing us about, especially the background of her interest in this … Continue reading →
We are holding a social evening starting with a discussion on the club itself and what our members want from it. In the last ten years our membership has doubled, we do a lot more online using the website and Facebook and we doubtless have more members aged under fifty now, so it's very likely that … Continue reading →