Events

This session will introduce the BBKA Qualifications and resources available to members and consider how you might prepare for BBKA qualifications, as well as their value. BBKA Learning Online has a range of visual, practical materials for both tutors and learners, and we’d like to know what you want, as well as what you think … Continue reading "How can BBKA help you be a better beekeeper?"

Wednesday 3rd December 2025 7.30.p.m. The art of decision making in Beekeeping:- Knowing when to take timely action and when to be patient. -Making the right decisions for your bees. -Getting the best outcomes for you and your bees Presenter:   Kevin Thorne Kevin is a Beefarmer with 50 hives in and around Lavenham, Suffolk. … Continue reading "  ‘Fast and slow beekeeping’."

(Glands, hormones, pheromones, sense organs and much more! ) The talk will describe how various glands (including those producing pheromones and hormones) and sense organs act together, sometimes in very complex ways, to control the colony. How does the bee manage when it has an impervious outer skeleton?  What does a superorganism mean in relation … Continue reading "What makes Bees Tick?"

Focussing on the nutritional requirements of bees at different times of the year -the role of the fat body in overwintering, -the nutritional contents of different pollens -why bees need variety in their diet. Presenter: Margaret Murdin Margaret has been keeping bees for over 20 years and is a Master Beekeeper. She has won the … Continue reading "Nutrition in Honey Bees"