News Updates

Your Bees This Winter

Several of our beekeepers are reporting the loss of colonies due to the recent spells of cold weather.

Have you lost a colony (colonies)?

In order to gauge the severity of the problem, and try to define the most probably causes of colony loss we would like to hear from you.

Please email newentbees@googlemail.com or burrowsadrianj@gmail.com indicating how many colonies you keep and how many have died. One of us will follow up with a request for further details. We will hope to identify a major cause and (possibly) methods to avoid losses in future years.

Gloucestershire BKA Spring Show

Honey Show, Lectures, and AGM
Saturday 18th February from 10am to 4pm
Royal Agricultural University, Cirencester GL7 6JS


Entry Form for Honey Show is here: Entry Form
Agenda for AGM is here: Agenda

The programme for the Day is:
10.00 – 10.45 Arrival, Honey Show registrations and refreshments
10.45 – 11.00 Welcome by Cirencester and District and introduction to speaker:
11:00 – 12:00 Recent research in honeybees – speaker Norman Carreck
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch break – lunch will be provided
13:00 – 13:30 GBKA Annual General Meeting and Honey Show awards
13:30 – 14:30 The Asian Hornet threat – speaker Andrew Durham
14:30 – 15:00 Tea and coffee
15:00 – 16:00 The Mind of a Bee – speaker Lars Chittka
16:00 Event close

NBKA Previous Winter Talks

Topics and Dates were as below:

Location: The usual venue is Newent Community School,
in the 6th Form Conference Room.

If you have ideas for further talks please contact Bob or Marcus
at newentbees@googlemail.com

Thursday 23rd February 2023 at 7:30pm
Derek Mitchell will talk on “The Invisible Dams of Bees”
Thursday 30th March 2023 at 7:30pm
Roger Paterson will talk on “Bee Improvement is Easy”

NBKA Honey Show

Thursday 29th September – at Meredith.

See the Newsletter for details

Bee related products on display for judging

Mike Hunt was our Honey Show Judge for the evening with Marcus Clark judging the mead class. The event was very informative, with lots of hints and tips being passed on by Mike. We were impressed with the number of entries of honey, wax, candles, cakes and much more. A credit to all.
Awards and trophies were handed out to class winners, with some members being extremely successful.
Thank to all who supported the evening and thank you once again to Neil and Rachel for being the hosts.

See you next year!