Bee Health

Webinar on feeding bees – 25th August

apiarymanager Bee Health, Feeding Bees and Starvation

Feeding Bees – Wally Shaw

Join us for a webinar on Aug 25, 2022 at 7:30 PM BST.

Register now!

Our webinar series resumes with a timely session from the WBKA Technical Officer, who will guide you through the process of feeding your bees to ensure they have sufficient reserves going into winter, as well as discussing feeding more widely. It is particularly important to ensure that the bees have adequate reserves after you remove honey supers.
Wally is well known, within and beyond Wales, for his practical advice based on what he and his wife Jenny have learned over 34 years of keeping bees on Anglesey. His series of WBKA booklets, which includes one specifically on the topic of feeding, are invaluable to many of us.
We hope you will be able to join us for what should be an informative session on a very topical issue.

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

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Fire Risk Warning!

apiarymanager Bee Health, Environment, Feeding Bees and Starvation, PBKA

Please note that the hot and dry conditions are likely to continue until at least the beginning of next week.

Therefore, please be careful if you are working your hives, especially with your smokers, and ensure that you do not drop any sparks or embers as there will be a heightened fire risk due to the dry vegetation!  We suggest you carry water etc. for damping down.

Also, ensure you have water for yourself to keep well hydrated and watch you don’t catch the sun or get overheated! Wear a hat to keep the sun off your head and loose clothing to let the air circulate, especially under a beesuit!

And don’t forget to check that your bees have access to water, they need it too!🐝

Bee Health/Safari Day feedback

apiarymanager Bee Health, Education & Training, Events, Foul Brood Diseases, Hornets, National Bee Unit, Neonicotinoids, Nosema, PBKA, PBKA Apiary, PBKA Website, Pests, Scolton Beekeeping Centre, Starting Beekeeping, Stories of Interest, Training, Varroa

Would all PBKA members who attended the Bee Health/Safari on Saturday 16th July, please fill in a feedback form – they only take a couple of minutes and it will help the National Bee Unit to justify more events like this in the future. Here is the link to the form.

Also the NBU has just (this week) made ‘live’, a video animation demonstrating the work of the NBU and encouraging people to register on BeeBase – click here

Note that all beekeepers have a duty to keep healthy, disease free bees and the PBKA strongly recommends that all beekeepers sign up to Beebase in order to ensure that they receive any warnings and can obtain advice etc. in the event of a disease outbreak.

We would like to express our sincere thanks to the National Bee Unit and their team, for a very interesting and most enjoyable course. 🐝