Headline News
Winter Talks Programme 2023/24 Schedule
Our RBKA Winter Talks Programme resumes on 6th December at 7pm, via Zoom, with a presentation by Katerina Prokopiou, CEO Bees Abroad ... This Beekeeper Can - How Beekeeping is Transforming the lives of Women in Tanzania https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84667525387?pwd=Mk9FZjlIajJ0bThjM3Z5RUpySFBHdz09 Meeting ID: 846 6752 5387 Passcode: 734299 The presentation will show how Bees Abroad projects enable communities to empower themselves through sustainable beekeeping, changing lives in some of the most disadvantaged of rural … [Read More...]
APIARY TASKS
December in Your Apiary
Your colonies should by now, be well prepared for the months ahead; housed in weatherproof and pest (e.g. woodpecker and mice) proof hives, with low varroa loadings and ample supplies of winter stores. Day time temperatures during late November finally drifted down into single figures, to what used to be normal for late November, and the first night time frosts were experienced. So your bees should at least be prepared to hunker down in tight clusters ... hopefully near to their stores or your substitute/additional provisions. Your winter preparations for them may not have yet been put to … [Read More...]
Next Big Events
Winter Talks Programme 2023/24 Schedule
Our RBKA Winter Talks Programme resumes on 6th December at 7pm, via Zoom, with a presentation by Katerina Prokopiou, CEO Bees Abroad ... This Beekeeper Can - How Beekeeping is Transforming the lives of Women in Tanzania https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84667525387?pwd=Mk9FZjlIajJ0bThjM3Z5RUpySFBHdz09 Meeting ID: 846 6752 5387 Passcode: … [Read More...]
