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If you are considering keeping bees, you would be well advised to join your local branch of the BBKA, where you will find unlimited friendly and enthusiastic advice from fellow beekeepers.
The Lincolnshire Beekeepers' Association
Lincolnshire Show 2008
Come along to the LBKA Tent at the Lincolnshire Show.
18th and 19th June 2008.
» Lincolnshire Show
Annual Bee Auction
Next Auction: Saturday, 5th April 2008
The following information has been provided by Alan Campion:
Sale Secretary, Lincoln Beekeepers Association
» Sale of Bees and Equipment.
» 5th April 2008.
» County Showground, Scampton, just off A15 North of Lincoln.
» Bees and equipment accepted from 3pm Friday 4th April.
» Viewing from 9am Saturday. Sale starts at 12 noon.
» The sale has become one of the major sales in the region for beekeeping items.
» 5% Buyers premium - 12 1/2% Sellers Commission.
» Extra special raffle with proceeds donated to 'Bees for Development Trust'.
Further details from Alan Campion 01522 522679
J. Williams 01522 730365, Jonathan Korejko 01526 378222
For further information contact Alan Campion [alan.campion@tesco.net]
For information on keeping bees, dealing with swarms, prevention of spray accidents, diagnosis and treatment of bee diseases and the supply of beekeeping equipment &c. the following may be useful:
Lincolnshire Beekeepers'
Quarterly Review |
Deadlines are as follows:
» 20th March - April edition
» 20th June - July edition
» 20th September - October edition
» 20th December - January edition
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| Queen-marking Colour Codes |
» 2004, 2009 = Green
» 2005, 2010 = Blue
» 2006, 2011 = White
» 2007, 2012 = Yellow
» 2008, 2013 = Red
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- The Lincolnshire Beekeepers' Association has local branches in Grantham, Grimsby, Horncastle, Lincoln, Louth, Market Rasen, Scunthorpe [N Lincs], Sleaford and Wragby.
- The Regional Bee Inspector:
David Kemp [telephone: 0115 9661238]
- The Seasonal Bee Disease Inspector:
R. Mould [telephone 01673 818711]
- Note: I have retired as editor of the
LBKA Quarterly Review and as
County Spray Liaison Officer.
This web information is just my way of being helpful.
It is not an official LBKA arrangement.
- For Spray Liaison local contacts - telephone LBKA Membership Secretary
Please allow for time to get in touch!
A beekeeper needs at least 24 hours notice to shut in the bees! 48 hours is better.
It has to be done the night before spraying is planned.
- e-mail: Quarterly Review Editor
Phil Raines, QR Editor, Grange Cottage, 21 Humberston Avenue, Humberston, Grimsby, NE Lincs DN36 4SL
- Thorne Beekeeping Supplies (UK) - Wragby in Lincolnshire is home to one of the world's foremost beekeeping suppliers.
- GMOs "The Rothwell Incident" - a short essay by Roger Parsons on Genetically Modified Crops in Lincolnshire. Link currently down.
- Richard Watson Frow MBE - died Nov. 29th 1973
Alan Campion's essay on the Lincolnshire Beekeeper whose "Frow Mixture" recipe, so generously given to all beekeepers at no benefit to himself, turned the tide of "Isle of Wight" disease, now known as Acarine disease.
There is an unique archive of Frow's Books and other reference material formerly held by the Library of the Riseholme [Lincoln] campus of De Montfort University and now in the care of Thorne Beekeeping Supplies (UK).
Useful links...
Other really useful contacts...
Bees down your chimney?
If all else fails contact Lincoln & District Pest Control Services who specialise in such problems.
Telephone: 01522 791759.
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