Please find attached a long document from Sam Day, our Kent BKA Asian Hornet guru, with some covering notes from our branch “Asian Hornet Action Team”. It’s a long but worthwhile read on what we’ve learnt in the last two … Continue reading
Adrian Davis, Chairman Canterbury Beekeepers
Kay Wreford’s report for 2019 gives a good overview of all the topics that the NBU are engaged with, and also indicates some personnel changes within the inspectorate. South-East-Region-Annual-Report-2019-copyDownload … Continue reading
An Asian hornet sighting was confirmed in the Tamworth area of Staffordshire on 2 September 2019. Read more about it in this letter from BBKA. Asian-hornet-2-September-2019Download … Continue reading
The East Kent Ploughing Match will be held on 25th September at West Court Farm, Shepherdswell, CT15 5PZ. Website: https://www.ekpma.co.uk/event Established for over 70 years in East Kent this popular annual event attracts between 3,000 and 4,500 people each year … Continue reading
At our apiary meeting this weekend, we extracted honey from supers collected from our Palmsted Wood bees. We also talked about the bottling process, and how you can use the commonsense that should be applied to preparing a foodstuff, to … Continue reading