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Sunday 19th July 3-5PM, Oxford
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Recent Blog Posts
- ONBG meeting, 1st August 2021 – out-apiaries and TBHs August 7, 2021
- ONBG meeting, July 2021 – Blenheim wild bees July 23, 2021
- Bees at the fete July 11, 2021
- ONBG meeting June 2021 – another Bee Tea at Dee! June 12, 2021
- Drayton beehive on display May 12, 2021
- Lockdown winter projects February 27, 2021
- Book review: Treatment Free Beekeeping, by David Heaf February 9, 2021
- Horizontal hive types January 17, 2021
- Bees Without Borders: conference report November 23, 2020
- Winter is coming November 7, 2020
- Winter survival surveys show ‘treatment-free’ works August 5, 2020
- ONBG meeting, July 2020: a Bee Tea at Dee Cottage July 20, 2020
- Book Review – Interviews with Beekeepers by Steve Donohoe July 1, 2020
- Look up during lockdown May 1, 2020
- Preparing for swarm season April 4, 2020
- Covid-19: evolution in action March 31, 2020
- A new hive design: the Drayton hive February 27, 2020
- Victorian Twitterstorms February 4, 2020
- Top Bar Hives, warts and all January 4, 2020
- ONBG meeting, October 2019: Hive envy! November 9, 2019
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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