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Friday 1st December 2017, Newcastle University

Please book asap to ensure a place as numbers are limited to 24. Lecture: Foulbrood: Past, Present and Future : Dr Giles Budge Followed by lectures from the lab run by Prof Geraldine Wright. The lab studies the behaviour, neurophysiology, and nutritional ecology of honeybees and bumblebees. Also studies how worker bees learn to identify […]

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Varroa Mite… The Honeybee’s Enemy

This webinar was provided via The Webinarvet on 9th November 2017 https://www.thewebinarvet.com/webinar/varroa-mite-the-honeybees-enemy The Varroa mite jumped species from the Eastern honeybee, Apis cerana, to the Western honeybee, Apis mellifera due to beekeepers bringing colonies close together. The new variant, Varroa destructor has spread round the world relentlessly except for Australia. The western honeybee has little […]

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The Remarkable World of the Honey Bee – Webinar provided via The Webinarvet

This webinar was held on 9th February 2017 https://www.thewebinarvet.com/webinar/the-remarkable-world-of-the-honey-bee The Remarkable World of the Honey Bee by John Hill describing the importance of honeybees as pollinators to the agricultural industry and some of the challenges they face. We will look at the natural history of the bee.  Knowledge of its life cycle is fundamental to […]

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Autumn 2016 Meeting

Autumn Meeting of the British Bee Veterinary Association on 12th October. This was e-hosted at E.H.Thorne (Beehives) Ltd., Rand, Market Rasen, LN8 5NJ and includes a tour of the factory. Our guest speaker for the day was Prof. Rose Cooper (Cardiff Metropolitan University). Rose is a microbiologist and an expert in wound healing, particularly the […]

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