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Recent Blog Posts
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- ONBG meeting, May 2022 – A Swarmy Bee Tea at Dee May 25, 2022
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- Trends in beekeeping March 6, 2022
- A visit from … December 19, 2021
- Blenheim bees – news article and response November 9, 2021
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- 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
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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