Penrith Beekeepers’ Winter Zoom Meeting Programme
You are cordially invited to join us for any of these meetings
The next zoom meeting in our winter programme, comes up next week on Wed. 3rd December. This
and the others which follow , with the relevant zoom links, are listed below:
Wednesday 3rd December 2025 7.30.p.m.
‘Fast and slow beekeeping’.
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 Bee farmer with 50 hives in and around Lavenham, Suffolk. Kevin is
passionate about improving his bees to be calm, healthy and productive and working
to educate beekeepers in this area. He and his wife Julie run Stour Valley Apiaries
and Busy Bees Cosmetics. Kevin has established a Bee Improvement Group at
Abberton Reservoir in Essex, working with local beekeepers, Colchester BKA, Essex
and Suffolk Water and Essex Wildlife Trust to reintroduce the native black bee to the
area. Kevin is a BBKA national speaker.
Thursday 15th January 2026 7.30.pm.
What makes Bees Tick?? (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 to the honey bee colony?
The impacts on foraging, swarming, development of the individual bee and the
colony will be discussed.
Presenter: Pam Hunter
Pam is based in Sussex. She is a Master Beekeeper and BBKA National Speaker
Z
‘Nutrition in Honey Bees’ :
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 prestigious Wax Chandlers Award for the highest marks in the BBKA
exams and holds the National Diploma in Beekeeping. Until recently, Margaret was a
BBKA Trustee and is a Past President, assistant moderator and examiner. She is a
BBKA National Speaker.
We look forward to you joining us for these sessions!