From the monthly archives: June 2015
The weather was kind – (until we started to take the marquee down) – the surroundings beautiful, the organisation good and the bbq done to perfection. This all served to enable many IOM Beekeepers, some with their families, to relax and enjoy a great day at Ballachurry.
PEOPLE who wonder where bumblebees live, why there are fewer than there used to be and what can be done to help them will have their questions answered at a local talk.
A one-day workshop run by the Bumblebee Conservation Trust will give people an introduction to the ecology and identification of the insect. Presentations […]
If you are coming to the Family Day on 21 June and intend learning how to make a skep, a carefully designed domed basket used for centuries by beekeepers to house their bees, you may want to swat up a little in advance! (You’ll even learn why you are asked to bring a […]
A few days ago, we received an enquiry to this website from a Ballaugh resident who said:
Hi, we think we have bees – potentially in our chimney. We are coming home and finding anywhere between 10 and 20 very sleepy bees (pretty sure they are honeybees – they definitely aren’t wasps or bumble bees!) […]
Update from the Ed Officer
The students of this years Beginner Beekeepers, have fined down to seven keen attendees.
Having completed the theory part of the course at the beginning of April, we
then met up for our first practical afternoon at the end of April.
During a discussion with IOM Bee Inspector Harry Owens and wife Audrey yesterday, Keith Osborn and I were privileged to be shown some of Harry’s extraordinary collection of beekeeping memorabilia.
From – IOM Today Wednesday 04 March 2015
By Dave Kneale
Official recognition from the European Union that the island’s bee population is free of the deadly varroa mite was almost ten years in the making.
But for 79-year-old beekeeper Harry Owens, it’s the culmination of four decades of work as the island’s […]
From IOM Today, 31 May 2015 Andrew Lawson, Dominik Brystrick, David Hamilton and Jerry Norton 06:55 Sunday 31 May 2015 The quality of the Manx bee stock was recognised recently when a batch of bees was sent to boost the ailing bee population in the Scilly Isles.
