Free-living honey bees, a B4 Symposium.

Event information

10:00 Norman Carreck – “What’s new in the world of bees?”
10:30 Dr Ollie Visick – “Do free-living honey bee represent an important genetic resource?".
11.30 Coffee
11:50 Dr Ollie Visick – “Are free-living honey bees limited by nest sites”

12.45 lunch- choice of pasties.

13:30 Norman Carreck – “Biosecurity: Lessons from the Isles of Scilly”

14.00 - 16:00 Current B4 work, free living bees, biosecurity and biodiversity. This would be a round table discussion about how the community can get involved with observing and assisting with research into free-living honey bees.

The Symposium on Saturday 11th April is part of a two-day event. The first day is outdoors at Newton Farm, Metherell.

Friday 10th April - Newton Farm – Farm tour.

contact Andrew Brown andrew@aglbrown.co.uk for further details and an invitation.

2pm to 4pm.

The farm tour will cover wildflower meadow creation, a hedge laying demonstration, wetland creation, orchard creation and conservation grazing.

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4pm to 6pm.

Filipe Salbany (Blenheim Palace) and Matthew Somerville (Bee Kind Hives) will demonstrate the installation of a log hive and a rocket hive.

This demonstration might help with the question: “are free-living honey bees limited by nest sites and what can we do to mimic ancient woodlands and their veteran trees?”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h6K_cS0m_w