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Next ONBG Meeting
Sunday 19th July 3-5PM, Oxford
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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: pollinators
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
Oxford Bee Summit 2014
The Oxford branch of Friends of the Earth (FoE) organised the Oxford Bee Summit on Friday 7th Feb 2014 in the spectacular setting of Oxford’s Natural History Museum. The purpose of the summit was to inform us about the National … Continue reading
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Tagged Bee Summit, FoE, Friends of the Earth, Oxford, pollinators
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The NFU response to the Bee Summit
I have just received the latest news bulletin from Farming UK and this item caught my eye, as it would. It is the current view of the NFU regarding pollinator declines and what the farming community is already doing about … Continue reading
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Tagged bee decline, Bees, FoE, Neonicotinoids, NFU, Plan Bee, pollinators, WI.
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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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