November 2020 Winter Meeting

Zoom

WSBKA Winter meeting, we will be joined by Ged Marshall, Bee Breeder, British Honey Producers Ltd.

January 2021 Winter Meeting

Zoom

WSBKA Winter meeting, we will be joined by Margaret Murdin Trustee and 2017 Chair of BBKA

AGM & February 2021 Winter Meeting

Zoom

WSBKA Winter meeting & AGM, we will be joined by Steve Riley of Westerham BKA, discussing finding varroa-tolerant bees

April 2021 Winter Meeting

Zoom

WSBKA Winter meeting, we will be joined by Elli Leadbeater Professor of Ecology and Evolution at Holloway University.

WSBKA March Winter Meeting

Zoom

Richard Noel, a Jersey-born beekeeper in Brittany talking about the Asian hornets and how they deal with it there.

Quiz-the-Experts session April WSBKA Winter’s Meeting

Lawshall Village Hall Opposite The Glebe, Harrow Green, Lawshall, United Kingdom

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 →

Winter Talks – November 10th

Nowton Village Hall Village Hall, The Pound, Nowton, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, United Kingdom

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.

Winter Talks – January

Nowton Village Hall Village Hall, The Pound, Nowton, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, United Kingdom

Jeremy Quinlan, master beekeeper of Ipswich  and East Suffolk BKA,  topic yet to be decided  

Winter Talk: April 13th – Talk by Nynke Blomer

Bury Cricket Club Pavilion Victory Sports Ground, Nowton Road, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, United Kingdom

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 →