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 →

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  

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 →

Our last of the season talk, Thursday April 17th: Jane Ridler of Bees Abroad and Saffron Walden BKA, taking about Drone-laying queens and laying workers. Venue, as ever, is the Victory Ground Pavilion, Nowton Road, Bury, IP33 2BT: 7.00p.m. for 7.30. We hope to see some new faces from Jane's group of trainees.  If you want … Continue reading →