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Smokers in Whitehall Demonstration, Geoff Mills, Life Member and past President of Essex BKA discusses CCD, Buying bees legally and Margaret Thomas gives hints for December.

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Upcoming Events

  • CBK Monthly meeting - Winter preparations 17/08/2021 at 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Nothing is more upsetting than opening up a hive in spring, to find a starved dead colony cluster.Join this meeting to help you think about what you should do for your bees in the summer, to help prepare them for the winter.The summer is when we should be planning our manipulations, treatments, feeding and obtaining…
  • Southend 25/08/2021 at 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm WI Hall, Bellingham Lane, Rayleigh SS6 7ED
  • Harlow - TBC 02/09/2021 at 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
  • CBK Monthly meeting - CBK Honey Show 21/09/2021 at 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
  • Romford Div. 07/10/2021 at 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm Chadwick Hall RM2 5EL Bees Abroad. Richard Ridler
  • CBK Monthly Meeting - Bumble Bees 19/10/2021 at 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm John Taylor will give an overview of the work of BumbleBee Conservation Trust with particular reference to the various outreach andconservation programmes. He will also up date us on his project in the ThamesEstuary and Essex Coast involving the shrill carder bee. John will also explain the possible conflict betweenpreserving bumblebee habitats and using hives…
  • National Honey Show 2021 21/10/2021 at 8:30 am – 23/10/2021 at 6:00 pm
  • Romford Div. TBA 04/11/2021 at 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
  • CBK Monthly meeting - Making and drinking Mead 16/11/2021 at 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm From the earliest days of the craft of bee keeping, the making and enjoying mead has been an important and popular productof honey. Filippo Negri has been a bee keeper for 15 yearspresently having 20 hives, both National and Commercial.He has been making mead for 12 years and both his dryand sweet mead has won 1st…
  • Romford Div. 02/12/2021 at 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm Chadwick Hall RM2 5EL Christmas Social

RSS National Bee unit News

  • Varroa a reportable pest 22/07/2021
  • Seasonal Bee Inspector (SBI) vacancy 01/07/2021
  • Regional Bee Inspector (RBI) vacancies 01/07/2021
  • Seasonal Bee Inspector (SBI) Vacancies 24/06/2021

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