Bailey Comb Change - Laminated Sheet

A useful laminated sheet to take to the apiary with you when planning to carry out a Bailey Comb Change.

This is the first of a series of laminated sheets.

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BBKA News – In the Apiary
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These articles were written a few years ago by Dr. Ivor Davis, and are intended for beginner beekeepers. Ivor holds the prestigious National Diploma in Beekeeping (NDB) and has also co authored the ‘The BBKA Guide to Beekeeping’.

This publication has come about by popular demand. Many beekeepers saw the sister special edition ’The Anatomy of the Honey Bee’ and asked for something suitable for new beekeepers.

So, this special edition takes you through a year in your apiary, with ideas, tips and recommendations.

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BBKA News – Honey Bee Anatomy
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Ian Stell used the latest imaging techniques and digital photography to produce the illustrations in these articles all of which were first published in BBKA News.

This collection of articles covers many aspects of the detailed anatomy of the honey bee. They are not only fascinating in themselves but they also serve to verify facts that we have assumed but, until recently, were unable to prove.

I am sure we will all have our favourite Ian articles and I certainly have mine. I like ‘Do Bees Pant?’ I love the idea of bees panting. I imagine the foragers returning with a load of nectar or pollen and just about making it to the hive entrance, landing on the alighting board and panting. Well despite my imagination, our bees don’t pant. This particular article tells us why. It shows a beautiful electron micrograph so of the tracheoles with their accompanying taenidiae which enable the bees to breathe.

This collection of articles is a masterpiece.

Margaret Murdin – BBKA Chairman

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BBKA News – General Husbandry
£10.00

The General Husbandry is an assessment to prove to yourself that you are a competent beekeeper managing your own hives in the variety of the situations the bees often throw up over the years.

The holder of this assessment can truly be proud of their beekeeping. This booklet hopes to guide you through techniques used successfully by experienced beekeepers.

Showing two assessors round your beekeeping enterprise can be quite a trial. It is easier to reproduce a task if it comes from physical memory rather than just book learnt so practising the manoeuvres required means you are confident.

This booklet does not include all the sections of the syllabus. The major omission is disease but APHA produce excellent booklets with good photographic illustrations on disease.

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Archive Film Footage - Memory Stick
£10.00
We have collated around three hours of film comprised of sixteen short black and white films including:
Dade dissecting for Acarine, Rob Manley taking his bees to the heather, Dr. Colin Butler working at Rothamstead, including how he discovered queen substance and a film of the 1965 Royal Show at Stoneleigh.

They may be a bit crackly, but are excellent pieces of beekeeping history, all available on a single, large capacity
memory stick for ONLY £10.

Perfect to show at the end of a meeting or during those long winter evenings!
- A Beekeeper's Notebook - 8 mins
- An Historic Event in Beekeeping - 3 mins
- Bee Tree - 4 mins
- Bees for Hire - 24 mins
- Dissection for Acarine - Dade - 10 mins
- Hive of Industry - 15 mins
- Modern Bee Breeding - 20 mins
- Pages from my Scrapbook - Colin Butler - 15 mins
- Pests or Olenty - 16 mins
- Queen Substance Part 1 Discovery - Colin Butler - 13 mins
- Queen Substance - Part 2 Measurement - Colin Butler - 14 mins
- Royal Show 1965 - 8 mins
- Starting with Bees - 17 mins
- The Life of the Honey Bee - 22 mins
- When Bee Meets Bee - Colin Butler - 19 mins
- With Manley to the Heather - Rob Manley - 11 mins
BBKA Medal
£19.80

Reward & Acknowledge

These heavyweight medals have a beekeeping scene imprinted into the surface of the medal.

The scene depicts both an open hive and a closed hive with bees flying around in the apiary garden. The image is wrapped with the British Beekeepers Association and founding date. On the flip side of the medal there is space to have it engraved.

The perfect keepsake or to reward a Beekeeping achievement.

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