6 : Around the Colony Toasting Sweet Success Pollinating the Peak
Little Green Space, based in Matlock, Derbyshire, has been awarded a grant of £500 by Derbyshire County Council that will enable it to distribute its new education pack about pollination and the importance of bees to schoolchildren and students at the Chesterfi eld Winding Wheel Theatre conference.
Flow™ Hive Supports Oxfam
A raffl e for the world’s fi rst
Premium Flow™ Hive has raised $97,300 for Oxfam Australia’s relief efforts in Vanuatu following Cyclone Pam. The lucky winner was Jason A, of Washington, DC, USA.
Keeping Track of Bees Ecologists at Kew Gardens
are testing a tiny new tracking device designed to monitor the foraging behaviour of bumblebees. The new devices, developed by Dr Mark O’Neill of Tumbling Dice, have a thinner and lighter aerial which has a larger reach of up to 2.5 metres compared with 1 cm for previous models. They are made from off-the-shelf technology and based on equipment used to track pallets in warehouses. Readers connected to Raspberry Pi computers will be placed around a colony and the data from the transmitters used to monitor bee movements. With an average foraging time of some 20 minutes, the forage area is thought to be around 1 km in diameter.
www.bee-craft.com The Bumblebee Conservation
Trust’s ‘Pollinating the Peak’ campaign will be launched at the event, taking place on 20 April. Schools are being invited to send ten pupils and three adults to the conference where there will be interactive workshops, fi lms, children’s activities, storytelling, beekeeping and cookery demonstrations.
Co-operative Development Scotland (CDS), the arm of Scottish Enterprise working in partnership with Highlands and Islands Enterprise has offered a £30,000 Collaboration Prize. The three categories are Innovation, Marketing and Tendering. Winner of the Innovation category was the Scottish Honey and Beeswax Consortium (SHBC). The founders have already helped over 800 people as part of the ‘Become a Beekeeper for Free’ initiative. Social enterprise Kelvin Valley Honey has watched the popularity of this initiative soar, with increasing demand from individuals, schools and community groups for the training. The consortium will combine members’ resources to increase
production, with members committing to sell a minimum of 65% of honey and beeswax products under the new brand. Winning the Innovation category will signifi cantly help the organisation push its new brand forward and develop uniform pricing, unrivalled quality and a competitive, collective marketing strategy which will open up previously unattainable markets.
Bee Craft 2016 Cover Photo Competition
Following the success of last year’s competition, we are running another one to fi nd photos for the covers in 2016. Full details will be available next month but don't forget to take your camera to the apiary so that you can snap potential winners. Remember to set your camera to create the largest fi le possible and bear in mind that for the photo to be used, it will have to be cropped square. Our 2015 winners have kindly agreed that we can use their photos for next year's calendar so look out for that towards the end of the year. Good shooting and good luck!
Bee, Connecting the World
This is the theme of the 44th Apimondia International Beekeeping Congress to be held in Daejeon, South Korea, 15–20 September. Papers will be presented for each of the Apimondia Commissions covering Bee Biology, Beekeeping Economy, Bee Health, Pollination and Bee Flora, Beekeeping Technology and Quality, Apitherapy and Beekeeping for Rural Development. There will also be workshops, round-table discussions and poster sessions. Running alongside the lecture
programme is the ApiEXPO, giving you a chance to see beekeeping products and services from around the world. First organised at the Congress in Dublin in 2005, the World
Beekeeping Awards will also be taking place at the event. There are individual classes for all types of honeys, mead, beeswax and various displays. Commercial classes are designed for large- scale producers, traders and packers while the Apimondia Contests include photography, multimedia, printed materials, decorative art and innovations. Entries must be received by 15 August and to be eligible, you must have registered for the main Congress. Honey entries must be tested by the Korean Beekeeping Association Laboratory before being placed on the showbench. Details of tours befo re and after the Congress are due
to be announced shortly. A choice of fi ve technical tours will be offered on Sunday 20 September. Destinations include Gwangju, Anseong, Daejeon and the demilitarised zone. All tours include visits to beekeepers and/or beekeeping operations.
Register before 30 June to take advantage of the early-bird rates.
Further details are at
www.apimondia2015.com and these also include several accommodation options.
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