NEW - Bee Craft's latest BeeMail
Please find below the link to the latest issue of BeeMail, Bee Crafts occasional newsletter with topical and up-to-date news from throughout the world of beekeeping. Many thanks to Bee Craft for allowing YBKA to publish BeeMail on our website. If you know of a story that would be of interest, please send details to beemail@bee-craft.com beemail@bee-craft.com
BEE MAIL August 2010
A Study of Beekeeping Practises
(Volunteers required)
Defra has commissioned a study of beekeeping practices and the guidance available to both new and experienced beekeepers particularly on husbandry and on pests and diseases.The study will help to throw light on the best ways to provide advice and deliver training to beekeepers. Beekeeper's opinions and experiences are a very important part of the study. .Defra's researchers will be aiming to gather the views of beekeepers from across England and Wales. If you are a beekeeper and would be willing to participate in this study, please follow this link.
PLEASE NOTE PHD HAS MERGED AND CHANGED ITS NAME:
On the 1st April 2009, Defra'’s Plant Health Division (incl. Bee Health) and the Plant Health and Seeds Inspectorate, the Plant Variety Rights Office and Seeds Division, the Central Science Laboratory and the UK Government Decontamination Service merged to form a new Agency called: The Food and Environment Research Agency (Fera). For more information please visit our website at: http://www.defra.gov.uk/fera
North East Region Annual Bee Report December 2011
This is a new feature written by Mr Ivor Flatman - Regional Bee Inspector North East Region.
Annual Bee Report 2011 CLICK HERE FOR FULL REPORT
Ivor can be contacted by email at i.flatman@csl.gov.uk
YBKA Bee Breeding Programme
Yorkshire Beekeepers Association (Y.B.K.A.) want to encourage all local associations to promote a county-wide bee breeding programme to provide queens and nucs ’in house’ for all new beekeepers, for expansion of an existing apiary and for replacement of poor stock. Please click here to read the full article and further information
Some good news on the Bee Health program in England.
If you haven't seen the announcement by Hilary Benn yet, please see the link below.
http://www.defra.gov.uk/news/latest/2009/animal-0121.htm
Apis UK News
There's a new Northern Bee Books Book - William Charles Cotton MA 1813 - 1879 Priest, Missionary and Bee Master, by Arthur R Smith, In 1841 Cotton decided, against his father's wishes, to go with George Selwyn, who had just been appointed as the first Bishop of New Zealand. He gained a first class honours in Classics at Oxford, he wrote a number of books on beekeeping, available at £9.00 postage paid from Northern Bee Books.