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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 2013
Come along to the LBKA Tent at the Lincolnshire Show.
19th and 20th June 2013.
» Lincolnshire Show

Horncastle District's Beekeeping for Beginners 2014
The next 10-week course will probably run early March to early May.

For further information contact Mike Beecham [mike@codemill.eclipse.co.uk]
or telephone Mr F W Parker on 01507 523107
For details of other LBKA Beginners Courses visit the LBKA website below.

Annual Bee Auction 2014
Next Auction: 2014 Date yet to be fixed.

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 links may be useful:

• The Lincolnshire Beekeepers' Association has local branches in Boston, Grantham,
  Grimsby, Horncastle, Lincoln, Louth, Market Rasen, Sleaford, North Lincolnshire and Wragby.
   
• Lincolnshire Beekeeping Association link on the BBKA website.
   
• LBKA Beekeeping courses for beginners.
   
• The Seasonal Bee Disease Inspector:
  R. Mould [telephone 01673 818711]
   
• Note: Some time back I 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 Mr F W Parker, County Spray Liaison Officer on 01507 523107
  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) - is one of the world's foremost beekeeping suppliers.
   
• 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).
   

• The Louth Festival of the Bees 2013 - a week of art exhibitions from the 17th to 23rd of May
  on a bee and wildflower related theme.
   

Useful links...

•   The LBKA is an Area Association of the British Beekeepers' Association
•   The BBKA website has lots of useful information including a search for your local BK Association contact.
•   It also has a section on how to get help or advice if you find a swarm of bees and do not know what to do.
•   It also lists all local courses for beginners.
   
•   LBKA Beekeeping courses for beginners.
   
• The International Bee Research Association
  An excellent beekeeping website with world wide links.
   
• The NBU Database BeeBase with contacts and useful information for beekeepers.
   
• Bee Improvement and Bee Breeders Association
  BIBBA's aims are 'the conservation, restoration, study, selection and improvement
  of our native and near native honeybees of Britain and Ireland'.
   
• APISERVICES' Virtual Beekeeping Gallery - a useful international site but with a horrible
  "rat trap" that will not let you use your Back button!
   
• Insect World - Gordon Ramel's excellent section on Honey Bees, Bumble Bees, and Stingless Bees.
   
• Principles of Honeybee Genetics - Some of the various genetic mechanisms at work in honeybees.
   
• Bees for Development - promoting sustainable beekeeping amongst those who share our enthusiasm.
  A good organisation worth supporting.
   

Other really useful contacts...

• EBS - Comprehensive beekeeping suppliers.
   
• Sherriff International - The ultimate Bee-suit people!
   
• Northwest Bees - all sorts of useful Bee things.
   
• Fragile Planet - Hives from recycled materials!
   
• The Bumblebee Conservation Trust - for information on Bumblebees, including information about the Tree Bumblebee.
   
• BWARS - Bees, Wasps & Ants Recording Society - the scientists identifying and mapping our Bees, Wasps and Ants.
   

Bees down your chimney?

If all else fails contact Lincoln & District Pest Control Services who specialise in such problems.

Telephone: 01522 790583.

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