Thursday, 22 February 2018. A super meeting last month, with over 70 attendees. Pam Hunter gave a really useful summary of the benefits of oilseed rape crops to bees. Get feeding for the rape crop is her advice - large colonies will be more productive. Pam is now our Link Trustee with the BBKA, a lucky coincidence that she was our first 2018 speaker. WOW! Definitely worth a try! .

To collect a pound of honey a bee might have to fly a distance equivalent to twice round the world. This is likely to involve more than 10,000 flower visits on perhaps 500 foraging trips. A worker honeybee in summer lives only 6 to 8 weeks from the time she hatches as an adult bee. Before that, it takes just 3 weeks for her to develop from an egg. The KBKA now has a new website at kbka.

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A charitable organisation which exists to promote all aspects of beekeeping. Which represents the interest of beekeepers nationally. If you require any information or help with honey bees, please see the tabs above for membership, education, swarms or contact us. Interested in bees and thinking about starting keeping bees? .

Welcome to the Ormskirk and Croston Beekeepers web site. Our Branch forms part of the. Lancashire and North West Beekeepers Association. We have around two hundred and twenty members to date and welcome aspiring and existing local beekeepers. You will also find some useful. To beekeeping resources on the Internet and w.