April 2022 BBVA Webinars
To watch the webinars that took place in April 2022 please click on the below imagery to be taken to the webinar video.
1 So you want to be a confident beekeeper – Celia Davies
2 Produce a good nuc and use it well – Randy Oliver
3 Bee viruses past, present and future – Prof Robert Paxton
4 The swarm: reproduction at colony level – Prof Jamie Ellis
5 Queen rearing for the small producer – Randy Oliver
6 Silent Earth – Prof Dave Goulson
7 A year in the life of a honeybee colony – Prof Jamie Ellis
Oct 2015) – Please note this leaflet is only available as a PDF.
The National Bee Unit has put together a series of Best Practice Guidelines, which will cover the essentials of the craft of beekeeping. These are available below:
The development of this basic beekeeping manual was sponsored by The Waterloo Foundation in 2009 and has been produced in many languages. If you are travelling oversees and wish to print off copies of the relevant manuals to take with you, the PDF versions can be found below.
Shona Advanced Beekeeping Manual
Shona Basic Beekeeping Manual
English Advanced Beekeeping Manual
English Basic Beekeeping Manual
French Advanced Beekeeping Manual
French Basic Beekeeping Manual
Chichewa Basic Beekeeping Manual
Hausa Basic Beekeeping Manual
Kinyarwanda Basic Beekeeping Manual
Swahili Basic Beekeeping Manual