We will be meeting at our Palmsted Wood apiary at 2-4pm on Saturday 10th May. As well as the routine spring inspections, we have recently created two nucs, so there should be the opportunity to see how these are developing – and how we manage queen cell numbers.  We may also have to dispatch a colony that is badly suffering from dysentery.  Finally, if there’s time and resources, we could usefully set up a production line to make up some frames.

You will find joining details in the email sent to all members. If you want to come along as a a visitor, you are very welcome, just drop us an email at chairman@canterburybeekeepers.org.uk, and we’ll provide the precise location information.

As usual, please come with clean suits and gloves. Continuing Kent BKA’s policy from 2024, we will ask folks to sign a disclaimer form, acknowledging the (small) risks inherent in beekeeping.

If you don’t have a suit, please let us know ahead of time so we can arrange to bring loaner suits.  We don’t like leather gloves, but kitchen marigolds are fine, as are hospital/surgeons’ gloves.  Wear wellie boots (to keep the bees from your ankles), and preferably avoid woollen/hairy clothing, as bees can get caught up in the fibres.