Category Archives: Disease prevention

5th Honey bee pests, diseases and poisoning revision post: nosema, acarine and amoeba.

Posted on December 11, 2012 by Emily Scott

The lifecycle and development of nosema, acarine and amoeba within honey bees. Continue reading →

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4th Honey bee pests, diseases and poisoning revision post: viral diseases, patchy brood, bald brood, stone brood and nosema

Posted on December 1, 2012 by Emily Scott

I’ve now received my first set of feedback from my BBKA correspondence course tutor, Pam Hunter. She went through all my answers very thoroughly and gave me the additional advice “Try not to be dogmatic – ‘may’ rather than ‘will’ … Continue reading →

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2nd Honey bee pests, diseases and poisoning revision post: Diagnosis and treatment of AFB & EFB

Posted on October 14, 2012 by Emily Scott

A 2nd revision post for the British Beekeeping Association’s Module 3 Honey bee Pests, Diseases and Poisoning exam, which I plan to take in March. This year I’m doing the correspondence course, so I have a tutor who will set me papers and give me comments … Continue reading →

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1st Honey bee pests, diseases and poisoning revision post: EFB and AFB

Posted on October 6, 2012 by Emily Scott

This is a 1st revision post for the British Beekeeping Association’s Module 3 Honey bee Pests, Diseases and Poisoning exam, which I plan to take in March. This year I’m doing the correspondence course, so I have a tutor who will set … Continue reading →

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National Bee Unit Varroa Workshop – Part 3 – Honeybee viruses

Posted on May 17, 2012 by Emily Scott

Part three in this series of posts about the varroa workshops given by National Bee Unit inspectors at a special training day last Sunday. After lunch, sitting outside in the sunshine of the gorgeous Roots & Shoots garden, we went back inside … Continue reading →

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National Bee Unit Varroa Workshop – Part 1 – “Know your enemy”

Posted on May 15, 2012 by Emily Scott

On Sunday Emma and I went to a ‘Varroa Workshop’ themed day held by the London Beekeepers Association, in conjunction with inspectors from the National Bee Unit. The Unit’s inspectors spend their working lives giving beekeeping training, checking for disease … Continue reading →

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EFB or not EFB? And the answer is…

Posted on April 15, 2012 by Emily Scott

We were really lucky today that Andy Pedley was able to come down and help us. As well as being incredibly experienced he has such a kind and patient manner. I felt better as soon as he started going through … Continue reading →

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Trouble in bee-land

Posted on April 10, 2012 by Emily Scott

I had the day off today so went down to the apiary to take a look in the hives, as several days of rain plus work have meant there haven’t been many chances for Emma and me to inspect. Today … Continue reading →

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Bee Keepers’ Day part 3 – how the National Bee Unit protects our bees

Posted on March 3, 2012 by Emily Scott

A third post carrying on from my previous on last weekend’s Federation of Middlesex Beekeepers’ Associations annual ‘Bee Keepers’ Day‘. Our final speaker was Mike Brown from the government’s National Bee Unit. He had very kindly travelled all the way down … Continue reading →

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Some good advice

Posted on September 1, 2011 by Emily Scott

Through the Facebook Beginner Beekeeper group I came across this link to recent advice by Andy Wattam, a UK National Bee Inspector. http://www.bbka.org.uk/local/lincolnshire/articles/-emergency-bee-care.shtml “Could I ask you please to put out a reminder to all of the District Secretaries about … Continue reading →

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