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 from the agricultural community as well as all walks of life. The event not only…
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 getting a few bottles of honey ready for honey shows. The following links provide some…
The main event of the summer for our parent body, the Kent Beekeepers Association, is the Bee and Honey Show at the County Show at Detling on 5-7 July. KBKA are always interested to hear from people who can help out running the stand, or indeed entering hive products in the Honey Show section. There’s…
Here is some basic information on the habits and biology of the non-native species, the asian hornet (Vespa velutina). This is an invasive species that provides threats to beekeeping, native insect populations, and potentially to human health. Here are some recommendations we hope all beekeeping members of Canterbury branch can act upon: “recognise and report”
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.
