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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

Swarm Control - The HORSLEY BOARD

For access to the full article CLICK HERE
This article is the copyright of M.Badger MBE. Please do not copy or use extracts without permission.

North East Region Annual Bee Report December 2009

This is a new feature written by Mr Ivor Flatman - Regional Bee Inspector North East Region.
Annual Bee Report 2009 CLICK HERE FOR FULL REPORT
To read the 2008 report CLICK HERE
Ivor can be contacted by email at i.flatman@csl.gov.uk

e-Newsletter
Your New YBKA Monthly News Letter.

Here's wishing all our membership a happy and successfull 2010 from all on the Y.B.K.A. executive committee.

The YBKA Executive Committee now publish an "e-newsletter" each month to supplement the YBKA News (which will now be published twice a year - March and November). The aim of the new e-newsletter is to keep members more up-to-date with what YBKA are doing as well as give simple, useful advice and information. Could secretaries please distribute it to all of your members who have email. If you wish printed copies can be given out at district meetings.To Download JUNE 2010 e-newsletter CLICK HERE.The e-newsletter is in pdf format in the hope that everybody will be able to open and read it (acrobat reader is available free from http://www.adobe.com/downloads or click on Adobe link at the bottom of this page) . If lots of your members are not using broadband then we can supply a copy without the photographs to make the file much smaller.
We are willing to add a personalised district page(s) to the e-newsletter which will be sent only to you (not other districts) if you supply the text in WORD .doc format by 21st of the previous month.
Photographs should be low resolution jpegs.
We hope that you will find this a useful service and will welcome any feedback, suggestions for inclusion and material to publish. If one of your members wishes to contribute the monthly 'to do' column district specific advice can be added to this.

Regards
Bill Cadmore
Newsletter Editor / Vice-Chairman
YBKA Executive Committee

January 2010 e-news
February 2010 e-news
March 2010 e-news
April 2010 e-news
May 2010 e-news

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

Read the November 2009 YBKA newsletter online by clicking the following links:
NOVEMBER 2009 PART 1
NOVEMBER 2009 PART 2

To view previous editions please click on the relevant links as they appear.
March 2009

November 2008

MARCH 2008

MARCH 2007

JUNE 2006

November 2006 .

You will require Adobe Acrobat Reader to access this. A free download can be obtained by clicking on the image.

YBKA Membership

Dear Association members: As many of you will undoubtedly know there are many advantages of becoming a full member and affiliating yourself with B.B.K.A. and Y.B.K.A. but for those who are unsure, here are a few of the advantages.

For a starter, and I feel most importantly, you get a public liability insurance cover upon joining to protect you, in this ‘where there's a blame there's a claim' society, should your bees be involved in an incident or action taken against you with regards to the same.

Free lectures are available to members at our annual spring and autumn conferences where lunch can be purchased to enable members to have full and enjoyable days out. We have an annual Field Day put on by Associations and Y.B.K.A. full of both family and bee related events throughout the day and based at places of interest too throughout the county. This years event is jointly run be Leeds B.K.A. and Barkstone Ash B.K.A. and the venue is the fantastic Temple Newsome Gardens on the outskirts of Leeds . Bring along the family and picnic in the gardens. Then there is the Y.B.K.A. Conference day at Bishop Burton Collage, this event brings together top speakers from not only Britain and Ireland but world-wide for your education and enjoyment, (concessions for students and junior members and a cooked three course lunch with vegetarian options is available on req. with refreshment breaks throughout the day).

You also receive a member's handbook to allow you to contact other members throughout the association with greater ease, and you will also receive a quarterly news letter published by Northern Bee Books and edited by our own vice chairman Bill Cadmore bringing you all the up-to-date news and views on current beekeeping events and practices & stories and topics written by other beekeepers that any member can submit.

We are currently holding an annual education course for members at the Pavilion Harrogate and this year we have based it on the B.B.K.A. Beekeeping Husbandry Course, a full day course with three top tutors for members wishing to further their beekeeping knowledge. Details of all these and many other interesting articles for our members are detailed on various pages of this web site.

We are also always looking for dynamic members to come and join us on the Y.B.K.A. committee to run or organise new and exiting talks and activities for our members, be it at our headquarters at Harrogate or at one of your own local venues if preferred. All ideas will be welcomed and looked at.

In closing I would also like to remind you to always check here on our Yorkshire Beekeepers web site for all the events, promotions, news and members stories or articles of interest which are always welcome at any time from any one of you. I look forward to meeting and hearing from all new or existing members at any time on anything you have to say or anything you feel is being neglected by us at the Y.B.K.A

On dave@aprilcourtapiary.co.uk or ring 01302-772837 thank you

Kind Regards and good beekeeping for 2009

D. A. Shannon - Y.B.K.A. Chairman

YBKA Membership

The Yorkshire Beekeepers' Association with the Harrogate & Ripon Beekeepers' Association are the leading organisations representing beekeepers in the county. Membership is via local District Associations who meet throughout the year whose objects is to promote and further the craft of beekeeping and to promote awareness of bees and their importance to the environment.

BENEFITS OF MEMBERSHIP

• Newsletters to members and information strips
• Public Liability insurance - £5 million
• Bee Disease Insurance available
• Web site
• Information Leaflets
• Annual conference at Bishop Burton College
• Examination program linked to the British Beekeepers' Associations Examinations Board
• Legal support and advice
• Representation and Lobbying of government
• Affiliation to the British Beekeepers' Association
• Links with Yorkshire Agricultural Society at the Great Yorkshire Showground, Harrogate

To View the YBKA Constitution CLICK HERE

To View the Standing Orders for Meetings Procedure CLICK HERE

Apis UK News (Apis Web site)

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 first class honors in Classics at Oxford, he wrote a number of books on beekeeping Available at £9.00 post paid from Northern Bee Books. Click on the Apis Web site above to view their web site and subscribe to free newsletter.