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Bee Keepers’ Day – Research on honeybee health and wellbeing

Posted on March 4, 2013 by Emily Scott

My second blog post on the Federation of Middlesex Beekeepers’ Associations annual ‘Bee Keepers’ Day‘, held last Saturday. Below are my notes from the second speaker, Dr Karin Alton. Karin is an entomologist from Sussex University, working with Professor Ratnieks at the … Continue reading →

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“Bee foraging on garden plants: Sussex University research” – a talk by Professor Francis Ratnieks

Posted on February 18, 2013 by Emily Scott

Yesterday evening I went to a talk on “Bee foraging on garden plants: Sussex University research” by Professor Francis Ratnieks at the Jodrell Lecture Theatre, Kew Gardens. Francis is the Professor of Apiculture (Evolution, Behaviour and Environment) at the University of Surrey – the … Continue reading →

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Friends of the Earth ‘Bees in Danger’ awareness meeting, 21st November 2012: Part 2

Posted on November 23, 2012 by Emily Scott

A follow-on post from yesterday’s, on a Friends of the Earth ‘Bees in danger’ meeting I went to on Wednesday night. Our second talk of the evening was from Rob Mitton, an MSc student from Royal Holloway College, who explained … 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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Bee Keepers’ Day – The decline of insect pollinators

Posted on February 26, 2012 by Emily Scott

Yesterday I went to the Federation of Middlesex Beekeepers’ Associations annual ‘Bee Keepers’ Day‘. Each year the Middlesex associations (Ealing, Enfield, Harrow, North London, Pinner & Ruislip) take it in turn to host a day of beekeeping talks; this year … Continue reading →

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Honeybee & Bumblebee talk notes

Posted on February 27, 2011 by Emily Scott

On Saturday I helped out with the food at a seminar held by the Ealing & Harrow beekeeping associations. Baklava went down very well with the beekeepers, even though I cheated and used Cornish honey rather than Greek. Here’s a few … Continue reading →

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New varroa treatment

Posted on December 23, 2010 by Emily Scott

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 →

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