December Social 2024
EDBK Winter Social 5th December 2024 Cooking with Honey At the start of the meeting Hilary Kirkcaldie, our President, gave a tribute to David Wiscombe, a founder member of the group who passed away recently. This was followed by a minute of respectful silence. The full text of the tribute can be found HERE. The […]
AGM 07/11/2024
EDBK Annual General Meeting Held at Kilmington Village Hall on Thursday 7th November 2024 The AGM was efficiently run as all the reports had been circulated beforehand. Election of President, Officers and Committee for 2024/25 A big thank you to the 54 members who attended the AGM and voted in your new Committee. President Hilary […]
Insulating hives Oct 24
EDBK winter meeting 2024 A talk by Derek Mitchell, Hives and Insulation: Fact or Fiction? Held at Kilmington Village Hall, 3rd October Derek is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Thermofluids, School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Leeds. He first became interested in bees after attending a talk at Buckfast where he learned that […]
Swarm Control Apr 2024
Queen Cells in my Hive! What do I do? A talk by Nick Silver 27/4/24 Finding queen cells in your hive is the beginning of a natural process which ends with swarming and the establishment of a new colony in a new location. Hopefully, the old colony will rear a new queen who will mate […]
Cut-outs and Queen Marking
Stan and Mike’s Cut-out Video + Nick and John’s ‘To Clip or Not to Clip’ April meeting, held at Kilmington Village Hall. 30+ attendees. The evening started with Stan Wroe and Mike Jones giving an illustrated description of their bee cut-out adventure. Stan was originally alerted to bees going in and out of a large […]
Island Beekeeping Mar 2024
From Orkney to the Isles of Scilly – the challenges and quirks of island beekeeping at the geographical extremes of the UK, even when varroa isn’t present. A talk by Stephen Fleming, joint editor Bee Craft magazine, held at Kilmington Village Hall, 7/3/24. 35 attendees. Stephen has been involved in some research work aiming to […]
Keep calm, Feb ’24
How to Keep Calm and Carry on A talk by Clare Densley and Martin Hann at Kilmington Village Hall, 1st February 2024.A joint meeting with West Dorset branch. 60+ attendees. Richard Simpson welcomed back Clare and Martin. The full title is How to Keep Calm and Carry on when Things Don’t Go as Planned (with […]
Winter Social-Tips & Tricks
My Beekeeping – Tips and Tricks A talk by Nick Silver at the EDBK winter social 7th December 2023 I started beekeeping in 2015 and now have 16 colonies (9 for production plus 7 nucs) spread around four apiary sites. The aim is to produce good quality food products. This year I had 550 lbs […]
Bee Microbiome 10/23
The Honey Bee Microbiome – An adventure on the inside A talk by Graham Kingham to East Devon Beekeepers, 5/10/23 ‘You are what you eat’ or more correctly, what you digest. We will briefly look at human and honey bee digestion and the alimentary canal. The honey bee microbiome will be explained and the effects […]