Author: apiarymanager

NB. PBKA Honey Show – Date rescheduled to Sunday 16th November 2025 – 10am to 4pm at the Green Barn, Scolton Manor

apiarymanager Events, PBKA, PBKA Apiary, PBKA Honey Show, PBKA Membership, PBKA Newsletter, PBKA Website, Scolton Beekeeping Centre, Stories of Interest

Just to advise all members that the PBKA Honey Show this has been rescheduled from Sunday 19th October 2025, to Sunday 16th November due to unforeseen circumstances. .

The event, as last year, will be held from 10am until 4pm, at ‘The Green Barn’, just past the old steam train at the bottom of the Scolton Manor site.

Full details to follow!🐝

Any enquiries in the meantime, please come back to me at pbkaapiarymanager@live.co.uk

Very best regards to you all.

Paul Eades

Chair

Pembrokeshire Beekeepers’ Association

Photo by Paul Eades 2024

NBU – Starvation Alert!

apiarymanager Bee Health, Feeding Bees and Starvation, PBKA

Over the last few days during routine inspections, we have observed honey bee colonies that are extremely short of food stores. We urge beekeepers to check the levels of food stores in colonies and monitor closely, particularly if apiaries have not been visited for some time or if a honey crop has recently been removed. Colonies need to be checked because they can succumb to starvation very quickly.

In addition, in many areas wasps are very populous and we have witnessed lots of beekeepers across the regions who are losing colonies to wasp attack. Please read our fact sheet on wasps for advice about how to prevent wasp related losses

Feed can be prepared from refined white sugar and water mixed at a 2:1 ratio, or ready mixed syrups may be acquired from beekeeping equipment suppliers. For more information on how to make a sugar syrup and feed bees, please read our best practice guidance: NBU best practice guideline for sugar feeding of honey bees.

If you have any questions, please contact your local Inspector. Contact details can be found at https://www.nationalbeeunit.com/contact-us/.

Webinar – Through the Eyes of a Regional Inspector with Daniel Baxter – Aug 14, 2025 at 7:30PM

apiarymanager Education & Training, Events, National Bee Unit, Stories of Interest

Through the Eyes of a Regional Inspector with Daniel Baxter. Join us for a webinar on Aug 14, 2025 at 7:30 PM BST.

Register now!

Daniel has previously been the SBI in Cardiff & the Vale of Glamorgan, moving to Monmouthshire and is now the Regional Bee Inspector for Wales, alongside being a semi-commercial Beekeeper in South Wales. He feels very privileged to work so heavily within the apiculture industry. Very early on whilst starting out with bees Daniel realised that this was something very much driven by a passion for bees and beekeeping, Daniel chose to develop his skills and knowledge across a number of specialist areas and via working as a Seasonal and Regional Bee Inspector in Wales, Daniel has found it incredibly rewarding to proactively manage bee health and inspire learning within this subject area across Wales.
This webinar will share Daniel’s experiences in the field as an inspector highlighting the successes and maybe some areas where improvements can be made, offering an insight to explore explanations behind colony losses, general bee health and husbandry practices. Daniel welcomes questions from you as beekeepers and invites you to ask questions in advance of the webinar for him to address.

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

View System Requirements