York Biotech Campus

New Research Updates From The NBU

York Biotech Campus Our Regional Bee Inspector, Mark McLoughlin, hosted delegates from the various Northern BKAs at the York Biotech Campus on 11th November. The day featured presentations about new research updates from the NBU by experts in their fields.…
dead bees and varroa mites

Treatment Free Beekeeping

Photo by Maja Dumat - CC BY 2.0 Risky To Go Against NBU Advice The July 2022 issue of the BBKA News features not one, not two, but THREE articles on treatment-free beekeeping. That's three out of eight (37.5%). Given…
jars of honey showing label

Hysteria Is Now Orthodoxy

Walrus Honey is delicious! An era of populism, conspiracy theories, idiotic social media clickbait and cavernous divides between rich and poor, conservative and liberal values is upon us. Perhaps the last time things were this bad was in the 1930s,…
Sister Queens different colours

Local Bees?

Sister Queens (same mother) There are some confusing messages out there in beekeeper-land regarding bee types, imports and so forth. In a world where the news that gets picked up is the one delivered in the loudest voice, sometimes accepted…
Honey Bee collecting pollen from willow

You are what you eat!

Honey Bee collecting pollen from willow It’s been a while since my last blog post, so sorry to anybody who has been struggling to get through their days without hearing about life, the universe, and bees from this corner of…
asian hornet on a flower

Bee Armageddon?

Typically, when I tell somebody that I am a beekeeper I get a big smile, then I get told how wonderful it is that I’m doing my bit to save the bees, because they are really struggling at the moment…