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  • 17 March 2024 16:01 | Anonymous member (Administrator)


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    Register for SBA 2024 AGM

    2024 Annual General Meeting

    The AGM this year is in person, on Saturday 27th of April, from 10.30am, at The Spectrum Centre in Inverness (which has great links to public transport). They decided to move the AGM around the country to ensure that they can meet as many members as possible.

    The current agenda can be found here, and there are some guest speakers in the afternoon, which is open to non SBA members.

    To register your attendance please click here, and remember to have your SBA membership number handy. Registration closes on the 13th of April.

    There's still time to propose resolutions and provide nominations for Trustees (until the 6th of April) so please email these to the General Secretary secretary@scottishbeekeepers.org.uk including a proposer and seconder.

    Details of all resolutions and nominations received, as well as the Proxy voting form, will be posted in the Member's area of the Scottish Beekeepers Association website and emailed out shortly after the 6th of April closing date.

    They are looking forward to seeing you on the 27th April

  • 14 March 2024 14:56 | Anonymous member (Administrator)


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    Andy Pedley Food Safety for Beekeepers Webinar

    April Webinar

    For our final webinar of this winter series, we’re delighted to host a Food Safety panel session on Wednesday the 3rd of April from 7.30pm with Andy Pedley. 

    Andy was an Environmental Health Officer for 46 years and has been
    a beekeeper for over 30 years. In this informative panel, Andy will be discussing the importance of knowledge of Food Safety processes for beekeepers and providing advice on practical actions. 

    We welcome questions, so if you would like to pose a question to Andy, please email this before the 3rd of April to Gino Jabbar at
    webinars@scottishbeekeepers.org.uk

    If you would like to join us please book your free place by clicking on the link below

    BOOK YOUR PLACE

  • 10 March 2024 20:34 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Bumblebees can work together and pass on knowledge to overcome complex puzzles, researchers find.

    Read the full story on the BBC news: bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment 

  • 05 March 2024 20:29 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Take a look at the extractor Neil R is selling Here 

    He has reduced the price to £80.

  • 28 February 2024 13:09 | Anonymous member (Administrator)


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    SHOP      |   ARTICLES     |    VIDEOS


    Inside this month's magazine:

    • Preparing your bees for Asian hornets - Help your bees to face a new predator
    • Travels with Tourneret - Eric Tourneret's photographs of The honey tribe, Ethiopia
    • How many honey bees are there worldwide? - Evidence for a global increase
    • The bee, the coin and the token - Why bees appear so often on money
    • Low cost microscopy - studying bees up close on a budget
    • Secrets revealed by the honey monitoring scheme - what's in our honey?
    • Recipe of the month: Honey and lemon curd
    • Cyclopedia: C is for chorion


    As well as regular features including:

    • Honey on the high street - our monthly appraisal of a commercially available honey
    • Ask the Mentors - with Clare Densley and Martin Hann of Buckfast Abbey
    • Gardening for pollinators - our regular look at gardening for bees and other wildlife
    • Beginners in the apiary - master beekeeper Geoff Blay writes about what to do in February
    • News, book reviews, beekeeper interviews and much more ...
       


    Low cost microscopy

    Studying your bees up close traditionally meant investing in expensive, sophisticated microscopes.

    Dr Barry Meatyard shows how low-cost equipment can be added to your computer for great results. In the image above, a bee's leg is shown in detail.
     

    March's cover shows a selection of coins and tokens from around the world, all of which feature honey bees. In their feature article, Adrian G Dyer and Stuart J McFarlane look at a selection in detail, asking why honey bees have for so long been used as a symbol of wealth, industry and trustworthiness. 
     


    Are your bees Fit2Fight?

    Alan Baxter has first-hand experience of Asian hornet predation in the Loire region of France and explains how to prepare your bees for what might happen this season.
     

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    What's in your honey?

    Every year beekeepers across the UK send honey samples to be analysed by the National Honey Monitoring Scheme. This month we have the latest results, revealing what types of pollen are most often found in honey from different parts of the UK. Our report also reveals a more sinister side to the discoveries; forage collected by bees is telling us about pesticide pollution.
     

    Buzz quiz
    One of the questions from BeeCraft's monthly readers' quiz.


    Q. What are these pellets, sometimes found on the floor or landing board of a hive in spring?

    Find the answer below.

     


    If you would like to receive at least 20% off the normal price, it's easy to do so through your beekeeping association. Simply ask your club to sign up to our group subscription scheme - it's free and easy. You will then be able to use your club's code to receive a discount when you buy your subscription via the BeeCraft website. 
     

    For more details email: subscriptions@bee-craft.com
     

    Subscibe to BeeCraft magazine

    Buzz quiz - answer

    A = Discarded pollen pellets. Often mistaken for chalkbrood mummies, they are sometimes thrown out after winter when fresh pollen becomes available. 


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  • 17 February 2024 18:47 | Anonymous member (Administrator)


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    The Apiarist

    Bigger queens, better queens – part 1

    David

    February 16 

    Synopsis: Recent research on the maternal effect in honey bees suggests queen rearing using worker larvae may produce undersized and underperforming queens. Introduction The majority of books and articles I’ve read on queen rearing emphasise that bigger queens are better queens. The rationale is simple. Bigger queens are better because their larger abdomens contain more […]

    Read his thoughts here 
     
  • 15 February 2024 12:55 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Did you know about the For Sale & Wanted Page on the website?

    Click Here to take you there 

  • 15 February 2024 11:45 | Anonymous member (Administrator)


    Crowning Glory: Elevating Your Apiary with High-Quality Queen Bees

    Walrus

    13th February 

    I have written a fair few articles about raising queens, and, as time passes, my experience grows (or maybe my memory fades?). The only beekeeping I have been doing is feeding fondant to most of my nuclei, and a couple of hives that were a little light. So, here’s another queen rearing article that tries […]

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  • 14 February 2024 16:18 | Anonymous member (Administrator)


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    Natasha Lyon & Mike Allsopp Bees & Honey of South Africa

    March Webinar

    At 19:30 on Wednesday the 6thof March you can let the Scottish Beekeepers Association  take you on a journey to South Africa to find out more about the bees and honey there. Your hosts will be  Natasha Lyon and Mike Allsopp.

    Natasha Lyon is a South African honey expert, and Mike Allsopp is a bee scientist at the Agricultural Research Council and an expert in Apis M. Capensis
    They will discuss the bees of South Africa, including Apis M. Capensisand Apis M. Scutellata, the diverse flora of South Africa, their beekeeping year, and the honey varieties enjoyed. 

    If you would like to go on this journey please book your free place by clicking on the link below

    BOOK YOUR PLACE

  • 06 February 2024 16:16 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    The Scottish Beekeepers Association  AGM is set to be held at the Spectrum Centre, Farraline Park, Inverness, IV1 1LS on Saturday 27 April starting at 10.45 to 14.45. An afternoon of talks will follow the AGM and conclude at 16.00.

    If you wish to propose a resolution for voting at the AGM the deadline is 1st April . Send your resolution(s) to the General Secretary along with the names of the proposer and seconder.

    Click Here to send an email 

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