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Wokingham
Joined October 2013
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Wokingham Beekeepers retweeted
It's Asian Hornet Week - have you downloaded the free app called Asian Hornet Watch? It's vital that we keep an eye out for any Asian Hornets as they are an invasive species that pose a real threat to our pollinating insects #bees #AsianHornetWeek youtu.be/ruXpWzNbzj0
Wokingham Beekeepers retweeted
We have created a resources page for Asian Hornet Week which has the pdf for our new banner and an infographic #bees #asianhornetweek #AsianHornet bbka.org.uk/asian-hornet-res…
Wokingham Beekeepers retweeted
It's #AsianHornet Week. You can help combat this serious threat to #honeybees and other #pollinators.
Look for their 'yellow socks' and a single orange/yellow band on the abdomen, then report your sighting using
@britishbee Asian Hornet Watch app.
bbka.org.uk/Listing/Category…
ALT To help people identify an Asian hornet we've shared a photograph of one sipping nectar from a plant. The winged insect measures 25mm in length, roughly two or three times a honeybee. Look for the tell tale signs that you have seen an Asian hornet, and not a native European hornet. 1. Measures approximately 25mm long 2. Dark abdoment except for the 4th segment 3. Brown legs with yellow ends - they are sometimes called socks.
Wokingham Beekeepers retweeted
It's Asian Hornet Week - Jimmy Doherty is a BBKA patron and he has a message for you #bees #beekeeping @jimmysfarm #AsianHornetWeek #Asianhornet youtu.be/Py21egnkjLk
Wokingham Beekeepers retweeted
It's mid #solitarybeeweek so about time I shared the graphic guide to summer solitary bees I've been working on! These are common and distinctive species and genera you can see in the UK from June to August (just a tiny portion of all the species on the wing) @SolitaryBeeWeek
Wokingham Beekeepers retweeted
Hornets Nesting 'Almost Anywhere' says Jersey's Asian Hornet coordinator #bees #hornets #jersey channel103.com/news/jersey-n…
Wokingham Beekeepers retweeted
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Good news this week, with some of our Bee Team back & in-between the rain, we inspected our new splits from this season and all have lovely fat laying queen's! 😊🐝
(though one still getting the hang of one cell, one egg!)
Wokingham Beekeepers retweeted
We like brood frames like this. Nice temperament, good producers. These will definitely be on the breeding list for next year!
Wokingham Beekeepers retweeted
All branch sale days this year will be cancelled. Instead we will be having a two week online sale starting 31st August. Second quality frames will start at £20 per 50. Orders over £100 carriage paid in the UK.
Wokingham Beekeepers retweeted
We've had a pretty good run in the South the last few Summers...
So I suppose it was only a matter of time before a big Atlantic low sits itself on us mid-summer flow.
Wokingham Beekeepers retweeted
Mindless idiots smashing beehives, cant say what I would like on social media. There time will come very soon. – at Merton, London
Wokingham Beekeepers retweeted
Plenty of bees. Who knows maybe a splash of rain could lead to a second wave of nectar.
Wokingham Beekeepers retweeted
A change in weather allows an opportunity to snatch some ripe honey.
Just starting to crimp a proportion of colonies as swarming impulse recedes.
Wokingham Beekeepers retweeted
It's a 1 white eye 1 black eyed drone wandering around one of my colonies!
Wokingham Beekeepers retweeted
This was a failed video attempt to show how good the BBWear Ultra Suit and Gauntlet combo is against angry colonies.
It was 5 mins long but the bees were so darn angry they muffled the audio.
Not 1 sting!
@BBwearLimited
Wokingham Beekeepers retweeted
In June, there are many new honey bee colonies with young queens needing to mate, so well-fed, healthy male #bees, or drones, like the one on left of shot by Sarah Hodnett, become vital to the continuation of the colony. This one is being fed by another bee. #beekeeping
Wokingham Beekeepers retweeted
Frantically trying to make up nucleus hives to house made up queen cells.
Conditions excellent; got to make the most of these next few weeks.
Credit: @Joshuawfrazer
