A teaching session - How to set up and manage an Observation Hive at a public event. This will include the requirement for producing a risk assessment. Routine inspections of the colonies.
Teaching session - clearing Supers, Honey extraction, Honey Processing, including testing honey with a Refractometer. Four students will be taking their Basic Assessment at the apiary during the course of the day.
Removing last of honey supers. Applying Varroa treatments Feeding colonies for the winter. Teaching session - Rendering wax out of old combs.
Advice on how to prepare for a Honey Show, by Douglas Nethercleft Douglas will take us through how to prepare products for different classes in the honey show and what he looks for as a judge Douglas’ talk is very timely as it will help you prepare entries for the following: Saturday 30th September it … Continue reading "Winter Meeting – September"
Coventry Beekeepers Honey Show Stage your entries, then enjoy a discussion while judging happens Use the link below to pre-register your entries (up to the Sunday before), so your labels will be ready when you arrive: https://warwickshirebeekeepers.org.uk/honey_show/coventry-honey-show-2023/ Or, come along with the entry form pre-filled in and get your labels on the night
Jo Smith - school bees. Jo will talk about the bees at her school in Coventry
Coventry Beekeepers Xmas social quiz will be held. We will also present Certificates to those CBKA members who have passed BBKA exams and assessments through this year. The evening is open to all members , their family and friends. The quiz is a family quiz, with topical questions, Video clips and a few images to … Continue reading "Winter Meeting – December"
Jane Medwell - Microbiome
Coventry Branch AGM followed by and Asian Hornet talk by Bernard Brown
An abundance of healthy, high-quality drones are necessary to produce top-notch queens, but extreme temperatures linked to climate change could be impairing their fertility. Worryingly, the drones’ sperm, as well as the male bees themselves, can die at temperatures that are now occurring during heat waves. In an effort to better understand factors affecting drone … Continue reading "WBKA Winter Zoom Talks – The Perilous Life of Drones by Dr Alison McAfee"
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Organised queen rearing requires enough colonies to make your selection from as well as additional colonies to rear the queens and contribute to the mating nucs. For those with only a couple of hives this is difficult, but it is possible to develop and increase stock using these limited resources. In this talk we will … Continue reading "WBKA Winter Zoom Talks – Queen Rearing With a Few Hives by Lynfa Davies"
