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Next ONBG Meeting
Saturday 9th September, Steeple Aston – Warres, TBHs, feral colonies and preparation for winter
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Recent Blog Posts
- Lore of the Honey Bee July 30, 2017
- ONBG meeting, 15th July 2017 – a rooftop apiary July 24, 2017
- OxNatBees exhibit at RSA Motivate July 14, 2017
- ‘Inspecting’ your bees – the low-intervention way July 5, 2017
- Neonicotinoids implicated again June 29, 2017
- Summer starvation warning June 17, 2017
- ONBG meeting, 13th May 2017 – swarms and exotic hives June 7, 2017
- Bees in trees May 29, 2017
- The ‘other’ bees: Steven Falk workshop May 22, 2017
- Cob beehive – an experimental top-bar hive adaption May 5, 2017
- Adapting to foundationless frames in a National hive May 2, 2017
- The Bee Meeting: North Tawton and South Leigh April 8, 2017
- ONBG meeting, 1st April 2017 – an emergency cut-out April 4, 2017
- Spreading the Bee Buzz #11 – Starting Beekeeping March 29, 2017
- Two swarms in the same hive: an update March 22, 2017
- ONBG meeting, 12 March 2017 March 14, 2017
- Beginners start here March 2, 2017
- Angry bees February 16, 2017
- Winter forage February 8, 2017
- Calm bees February 5, 2017
Tag Archives: DEFRA
DEFRA’s National Pollinator Strategy – a missed opportunity
DEFRA originally published an initial draft pollinator strategy for the UK which I reviewed here. The stand-out item in that was a lack of reference to neonicotinoid “super-pesticides”. They have now published the almost-final version and invited feedback. On starting … Continue reading
Draft National Pollinator Strategy
Just received the following from Friends of the Earth. I urge you to give feedback to DEFRA on the draft strategy – follow the second link. Last time they held such a survey, they only got about 100 responses from … Continue reading
Interesting tidbits
I have finally managed to digest the 53 page document at the core of DEFRA’s public consultation on improving honey bee health. It’s a mass of cross-references, repeated / scattered data and stop-start-in-another-place themes – almost as if they didn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Inspections, Research, Uncategorized
Tagged bee health, Beebase, CCD, chalk brood, consultation, DEFRA, disease, FERA, Research, Varroa Mites
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