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Roger first came to the Isle of Man for beekeeping purposes in 2009, when he was invited to help assess and improve the Manx honey bees. He has visited several times since and has become well known to many of us. He is advising our Manx Bee Improvement Group (MBIG), a sub-committee of the […]
Guest post by Cilla Platt, Education Officer
This is the first time of writing this. It doesn’t mean to say that the Beginner Beekeeper’s course hasn’t been going for many years!
Setting up each Course usually starts from the time of the Agricultural Shows.
Paper “signing up” forms are left on a table in the […]
Our Education Officer today received this email:
Dear George & Cilla
After being able to give you good news over the weekend I am sorry to say that a further sighting has been confirmed north of the Mendip Hills in Somerset.
This is not the news we […]
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.
Saturday afternoon found Keith Osborn and your scribe at the beautiful rural setting Andy Scarlett chose to locate his beehives. It was like a “raid by the Southern” as we strode through the long grass from the carpark up the field to where the Apiary meeting was well on its way.
(I came across this article in “The Conversation” earlier this week. Attribution and links at the foot of the page.)
It’s bee season and now’s the time to go outside and observe these popular insects. Bees hold a relatively special place in people’s affections – we have them to thank for honey, of course, and […]
And here are a few images from Roger’s fourth and very busy day on the island!
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The eagle eyed reader will note that we missed out Day 2; weather wise it was a total washout but we did manage to cover quite a lot of ground in the classroom with Roger’s slide presentation and lots of questions and answers.
Day 3 looked much the same – to begin with, […]
