Reminders, tips and ideas each month to help your bees and your beekeeping - articles taken from BBKA News.
2022 articles written by Jeremy Quinlan; Master Beekeeper, NDB, Suffolk BKA2023 articles written by Karl Colyer, Cheshire BKA
Karl Colyer, Cheshire BKA. Leave the bees alone. Winter as a selection tool. Looking and planning ahead. Read more
Karl Colyer, Cheshire BKA. What can or should be done? What else looks necessary? Time to take stock of your year. Read more
Karl Colyer, Cheshire BKA. Winter preparations, inside the hive, how to help your bees, how to help your beekeeping, Read more
Karl Colyer, Cheshire BKA. Preparing for winter, a time for observation and consolidation. Read more
Karl Colyer, Cheshire BKA. Timing your honey harvest, Supersedure, Varroa treatment and disease checks, plan for next year. Read more
Karl Colyer, Cheshire BKA. Honey harvest preparations, clearing supers, protection from robbers, Varroa treatment and managing colony size. Read more
Karl Colyer, Cheshire BKA. Are your bees thriving, balanced and healthy? Read more
Karl Colyer, Cheshire BKA. Swarming, Manual Swarm Cell Removal and Artificial Swarming. Read more
Karl Colyer, Cheshire BKA. First thorough inspection, Adequate space & stores, Hive clean-up and Health & Disease Read more
Karl Colyer, Cheshire BKA. Resources & Forage, Impact of Warmer Weather, Records & Decision Making, Dead-Outs Read more
Karl Colyer, Cheshire BKA. Feeding strategy, tidy up the apiary, plan your year. Read more
Karl Colyer, Cheshire BKA. Resources for your bees, Varroa treatment, Are your bees secure and safe?, inspecting your bees, become a better beekeeper, get to know your bees. Read more