- ONBG (OxNatBees) is an informal mutual support network for beginners and experienced beeks who aspire to practise bee-centric, low intervention, and chemical-free beekeeping in Oxfordshire. To join the group and share ideas, questions, information and experiences, please use this site's Contact Us form.
Next ONBG Meeting
Sunday 19th July 3-5PM, Oxford
Twitter: @OxNatBees
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Recent Blog Posts
- 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
- Convergent theories September 17, 2019
- Learning from the Bees, Berlin – bees au naturel! September 11, 2019
- ONBG+ meeting, August 2019: insulation, cavity size, Golden Hives August 19, 2019
- ONBG meeting, July 2019 – what makes a good hive? July 25, 2019
- At the village fete June 30, 2019
- Learning from the Bees Conference, Berlin June 24, 2019
- ONBG meeting, 15th June 2019 – TBHs, Freedom hives and a surprise swarm June 16, 2019
Tag Archives: EU
So you believe the Science? Don’t believe everything you hear and read.
I received a newsletter courtesy of a friend in the US relating to a chemical called Atrazine. Now don’t worry too much about that unless you holiday in the US. This chemical is a weedkiller and it is banned in … Continue reading
Posted in Ecology, Honey, Newspaper articles, Pesticides, Research, Uncategorized
Tagged chemicals, corruption, ecological damage, environmental pollution, environmental science, EU, government, law, legislation, lobbyists, Neonicotinoids, Precautionary Principle, US, water quality, weedkillers
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If ever there was a need for the Law of Ecocide this is it.
All I will say is after reading the Financial Times comment by the same science minister and then this claptrap I am of the opinion that none of them can be trusted to protect the environment and ultimately us. Read … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Bayer, BBKA, Bees, CCD, corporations, EU, Neonicotinoids, NFU, Syngenta
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Studies show no link between insecticide and bee health
Bee health has become a hot topic regardless as to whether your a natural beekeeper or one of the BBKA variety of beekeepers armed with all manner of potions and plans. However when the very same organisations that we all … Continue reading
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Tagged CCD, EU, FERA, insecticides, Neonicotinoids, pollinators
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