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Author Archives: Emily Scott
2nd Honeybee behaviour revision post: honey bee mating
Revision post for this week: section 6.2 of the BBKA’s Module 6 syllabus – the mating behaviour of the honey bee queen and drone including an account of the pheromones involved and the concept of drone congregational areas Virgin queens … Continue reading
1st Honeybee behaviour revision post: bee jobs
This is a revision post for the BBKA Module 6 Honeybee Behaviour exam. I’m trying to work my way through the syllabus, one section at a time. Starting at the beginning: 6.1 The candidate shall be able to give a … Continue reading
Spring seems far away
The apiary snowdrops had progressed a little further in their journey up and out of the earth this weekend, but it was a bleak damp day for us beekeepers to be huddling round our cups of tea. No bees were … Continue reading
January’s bees are flying
Visited my bees for the first time since mid-December to wish them Happy New Year. To my surprise, they popped their heads out of the hive to see me (or, more likely, to poo) and were flying all over the … Continue reading
Module 6 here I come
I’ve taken the probably over-ambitious decision to take the British Beekeeping Association’s Module 6: Honeybee Behaviour written exam in March. I have about 9 weeks left to revise, which I’ll need because when I downloaded a past exam paper this … Continue reading
New varroa treatment
The Guardian reported yesterday on some promising sounding new research into a way to make the varroa mite self-destruct. The treatment involves introducing harmless genetic material which encourages the mites’ own immune response to prevent their genes from expressing natural … Continue reading
Giving acid to bees
Oxalic acid time at the apiary today. Oxalic acid is a naturally occurring acid that’s one of the beekeeper’s best weapons against the evil varroa mite – it burns their feet and they drop off the bees! We do this … Continue reading
Christmas candy
Today I popped down quickly to see my bees, or at least their hive. With the drop in temperature the apiary was completely still, with no bees flying at all that I could see. The snow’s melted by now, so … Continue reading
14/11/10
Finally put my mouseguard on: Now only bees or creatures the size of bees can get in. Hopefully a little mouse hasn’t crept in there already. Had a look at my varroa board, which I last checked two weeks ago. … Continue reading
Bee news
There’s been quite a bit of bee related news in the papers this week, some good, some not so good… The bad news Climate change and deforestation in Ethiopia means rare sweet white honey is growing scarce. It will be … Continue reading
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