FBKA also have an active closed facebook group.
TED Talk on Bees (2013)
A TED 5 minute talk (2013) on “Why Bees are Disappearing” https://www.ted.com/talks/marla_spivak_why_bees_are_disappearing
Wellesley Press Release – about FBKA Browning Apairy
FBKA members Graham Read and Bill Dunstan joined community manager Carla Norton and development manager Alan Chitson from Aldershot’s Wellesley…
Bailey Comb Changes
Why it’s important to replace old comb One way in which beekeepers can keep their bees healthy is to ensure that…
Flipping Beehives!
It’s early spring and the sight of worker bees returning to the hive with full pollen baskets is a strong…
Beware of woodpeckers!
Woodpeckers (for some reason its only the Green Woodpeckers) can sometimes attack beehives to eat the bees and honeycomb. They…
Rehousing a swarm of bees – Part 3
So we went to see the swarm again in their new home to see how they were getting on. We…
Rehousing a swarm of bees – Part 2
In the last posting I described how we had removed a large and well established swarm of bees that had…
Rehousing a swarm of bees – Part 1…
Even the most diligent of beekeepers employing a strict inspection process to manage swarming gets it wrong occasionally… We have…
Keeping the wasps away…
The long, hard winter seems to have had a real impact on this years wasp numbers which seem to be…