Please find attached the report from Sandra Gray, our regional bee inspector. There’s some interesting material on yellow-legged (Asian) hornets, as well as the usual summaries of notifiable diseases (unfortunately still a problem in East Kent), queen imports and exotic pest monitoring.
Our friends at Dover and District BKA are running their Honey Show on 20th October in Shepherdswell Village Hall. All local beekeepers are welcome to enter the open classes in the Show, and we’ve often had good success when members have joined in this very traditional of autumn activities.
Please find attached the Dover Honey Show schedule, and note that entry forms must be submitted by 13th October.
Saturday 29th September 2018 from 1.15pm
Lenham Community Centre, 4 Church Square, Lenham, Maidstone ME17 2PJ
‘Experiments in Skep Beekeeping’ with Chris Park
The Asian Hornet Incursion – Torbay Beekeepers’ response to the threat’ with Gerald Stuart
flier can be seen here : Flier Final 2018
Our next meeting-the-public event is coming up quickly, at Brogdale on 15th July. Running the Canterbury Beekeepers stand is fun and rewarding, particularly if there’s four or more people present to share the load. We are very grateful to any member who can give up a few hours to help out with our “meet the public” events. Don’t worry that you don’t know everything about beekeeping – you’ll know more than almost anyone who comes to the stand, and enthusiasm is the single biggest asset at these events!
Please sign up to offer help – if you can’t make the day, perhaps you can supply honey or other hive products, or help prepare the observation hive.
due to some unforeseen changes of plans, we have decided that Saturday’s meeting will be a fixed-location event, at our apiary in Sally and Chris’ wood in Bekesbourne. Full joining instructions can be found in the email sent to all members. If you didn’t receive an email, please contact David by email or Adrian by email
Saturday 5th May, 2-4.30pm
We hope that many of you can join us this coming weekend. We need to tidy up the colonies, which were small when we visited in April, but by now should be growing rapidly.
Normal apiary hygiene rules apply – so please bring clean bee-suits, clean disposable gloves (no leather gloves), and wellington boots. If you need to borrow PPE, please let us know ASAP, so we can make sure to have an appropriate number of suits available.