Date & Time: 28th of January 2025 Speakers: Dan Basterfield Title: Handling Skills (Hybrid Meeting) Brief description: The only father and son team to ever have been awarded the National Diploma in Beekeeping (the highest UK qualification), they run around 120 colonies commercially together, based at Blackbury Honey Farm in Devon. Dan holds the National […]
With proper aftercare these boxes can give years of service. At this meeting we will take a look at how you can use these boxes in your beekeeping and how you can minimise their costs.
Shawford Parish Hall Open to all AHAT Officers
Sparsholt College, Winchester
Date & Time: 25th of March 2025, Hall open from 7pm - talk starts at 7.30pm Speakers: Andrew Gill Title: Drone Psychology Brief description: Drone Psychology - are they the fairer sex? Location: Portchester Parish Hall Open to/Cost: Free to members
Date & Time: 22nd of April 2025 Speakers: Isaac Mullane, Seasonal Bee Inspector for the South East Region Title: Recognising Bee Diseases, especially European Foulbrood Brief description: Isaac will discuss recognising bee diseases, with a focus on European Foulbrood, which impacted the area in 2024. A follow-up apiary demonstration will show how to inspect colonies […]
Members are invited to attend this session that focuses on looking for signs of small hive beetle and tropillaelaps mite in hives and the development of a Voluntary Sentinel Apiary in efforts to track any incursion into the UK. The day will comprise of a demonstration inspection and sampling techniques, followed by guided practice and […]
PDBKA will be at the Rowlands Castle Village Fair, sharing lots of information on our wonderful pollinators
Our pollinators are the essential for many of our plants, but the plants are also essential for our pollinators. Join us to discuss what we have been able to learn from Bee's Needs Week and providing forage sources throughout the year. The second half of the evening will bring members together to talk about the ups and downs of the season so far, and share some helpful tips with each other along the way.
Speaker: Andrew Durham Topic: Yellow-legged Asian Hornet – Is Nest Destruction a Dangerous Delusion? Is Spring Trapping the Lesser of Two Evils? When: Wednesday 3rd September 7.30pm Andrew is a Cambridgeshire beekeeper who started his research into the Asian Hornet (a.k.a. Yellow-legged Hornet - Vespa velutina) in 2014, travelling around France and researching the impact […]
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