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01/03/2022
Our week 8 BeeSoc social is PomPom making!!
This week we will be making pom pom bees (other pom pom themed creations also allowed). This will be on Wednesday (2nd March) 6-8 in SLB/105. Please sign up in the link in our bio if you want to come!
This is open to everyone! It’s free to members and just £1 for non members.
Looking forward to seeing you all there!!
15/02/2022
Tomorrow we will be watching the award winning documentary film Honeyland at 6pm in SLB 206. Everyone is welcome, bring some drinks and snacks!!
09/02/2022
03/02/2022
Look at that festoon 🐝
30/01/2022
Can you spot this girls very full pollen basket? 💛
The pollen basket or corbicula (plural corbiculae) is part of the tibia on the hind legs of certain species of bees eg the European Honey Bee. They use the structure in harvesting pollen and carrying it to the nest or hive.
30/01/2022
Beekeeping for beginners – how to keep bees in your backyard Learn about beekeeping for beginners for your own source of delicious honey and to help keep your garden productive and colorful
28/01/2022
Lots of thanks to and all our members who came to this weeks social!! We had such fun making beebombs with you yesterday. Don’t forget to scatter your bombs before it rains 🌷🐝
28/01/2022
What’s the deal with Varroa? 🪳🐝
Varroa mites are tiny red-brown external parasites of honey bees(close up in picture 2). Although Varroa mites can feed and live on adult honey bees (picture 1) , they mainly feed and reproduce on larvae and pupae in the developing brood (picture 3), causing malformation and weakening of honey bees as well as transmitting numerous viruses.
Colonies with low infestation generally show very few symptoms, however as the mite population increases symptoms become more apparent. Heavy Varroa mite infestations can build up in 3–4 years and cause scattered brood, crippled and crawling honey bees, impaired flight performance, a lower rate of return to the colony after foraging, a reduced lifespan and a significantly reduced weight of worker bees. Colony symptoms, commonly called parasitic mite syndrome, include an abnormal brood pattern, sunken and chewed cappings and larvae slumped in the bottom or side of the cell. This ultimately causes a reduction in the honey bee population, supersedure of queen bees and eventual colony breakdown and death.
This is why as beekeepers we treat our colonies for varroa a few times per year in different ways to try and manage varroa levels. In videos 1 and 2 we explain how we do the trickle method using oxalic acid in the winter.
30/10/2021
Honeybees use social distancing when mites threaten hives – study Foraging bees keep away from centre of colony when infested with mites, find researchers
20/10/2021
15/10/2021
Urgent Appeal to Write to your MP Our Chair Anne Rowberry has made an urgent appeal to members to write to their MP supporting an amendment to the Environment Bill which would protect pollinators from pesticides.
09/10/2021
University of York Society Bucket List Emily Hewat gives you a rundown of the less well known societies to join this year
