Calling all local BBKA Branch Associations - we need your feedback! Read more
Beekeepers are often approached about winged, flying creatures, especially in the spring and summer period, when they are their most active simply working and are no cause for alarm. We can only help if they are honeybees. Read more
Bees are livestock and must be tended says BBKA chair Anne Rowberry who is working with Defra. See latest statement here. Read more
BBKA welcomes it's newest Patron, Jimmy Doherty. Read more
Dates for the BBKA Spring Convention 2021 are 16-18 April. Read more
Thank you for your exam or assessment payment Read more
Many of you have asked for videos of the lectures you would have seen at the Spring Convention. Prof Tom Seeley has sent three, they have all been sponsored by C.B. Dennis Trust & Worshipful Company of Wax Chandlers. Read more
Eric Darrouzet from the University of Tours has this video showing the level of hornet activity outside a managed colony and a wild colony. Read more
In response to requests for further information about making and selling wax wraps and lip balms Read more
BBKA and BBKA Spring Convention Videos for the National Honey Show 2020 Read more
Updated information from DEFRA about Covid-19 Read more
John Woods, a beekeeper in France, has been in touch with some collated information about muzzles which help protect hives from Asian hornets. Read more
Please contact us to list your beekeeping association events here! Read more
The fire at Notre Dame attracted a lot of attention, and concern about the building and the bees. Research following the lead rain after the Notre Dame cathedral fire shows how honey bee colonies map this contamination Read more
The BBKA have a YouTube Channel available where there is a playlist dedicated to practical beekeeping videos. These are short clips designed to explain and help you with your beekeeping. Read more
BBKA Chair Anne Rowberry says thanks for a successful Asian Hornet Week in which we have seen the first Asian Hornet nest of 2020 located and destroyed. Read more
In this study we focus on honeybees and other pollinators in an urban landscape. The central point of the study are the Grey Street Read more
Part of the blog post by Peter Davies about Asian hornets as part of the Asian hornet week 2020. Read more
Presidents are elected for two years at the Annual Delegates Meeting. Here are some memories from our recent past presidents. Read more
Have a look at a video of the National Beekeeping Centre Read more
Honeybee Entrance Monitor System research by Cwyn Solvi – Queen Mary University of London. The main aim of this project was to develop an entrance monitoring system that can track individual honeybees entering and exiting their hive Read more
Resources for Asian hornet Week to download and share. Read more
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£100 prize for best photo of hornet or wasp - deadline Sept 30 Read more
Update from Dr Nicholas Balfour and colleagues at Sussex University who were recipients of funding from BBKA in 2018 for an unusual and interesting project on building an online data base of pollinator interactions. Read more
From the mid-1950s, the wartime boom in beekeeping went into decline until 2005 when a campaign to stop cuts in NBU inspector numbers. Further helped by the 'Smokers in Whitehall' presenting a petition with 143,000 signatures at 10 Downing Street. Read more
BBKA Experts: Dealing with Disease Part two of a series of articles about the history of the examinations and assessments of the BBKA by David Charles, Past President Read more