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 Beekeeping at Findon Mills
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Highland Open Honey Show30th/31st August 2008 Judge Dr. Flora Isles Hosted by Inverness-shire Beekeepers' Association 6th September 2008 Great Feil Maree, Dingwall from 10 am We will be displaying equipment and the observation hive in the Museum Courtyard along the same lines as last year. Go to 2007 OPEN DAY in menu opposite. 13th September 2008 Scottish Beekeepers' Association Convention Auchencruive College, Ayr Our Winter programme17.9.2008 Graeme Sharpe, Beekeeping Advisor, SAC Auchencruive, Ayr, will be speaking on “My Beekeeping Year”. 1.10.2008 SBA Lecture tour hosted by Inverness-shire Beekeepers Association. To be held in the Kingsmill Suite at the Football Stadium, Inverness at 7.30 pm. Phillip McCabe will speak on “The importance of bees in the Environment.”
19.11.2008 Closing down for Winter - preparing for next year - film? 18.2.2009 Stephen MacKenzie, Black Isle Show Education Convener - his aim and our part in it. 18.3.2009 Graeme Sharpe “Swarm control and prevention”. 15.4.2009 AGM All winter meetings will be held in the General Purposes Room at Tarradale Primary School, Muir of Ord at 7.30 pm. We are a small group of amateur beekeepers based in the Dingwall area but serving the Black Isle northwards to Evanton/Alness in the east and westwards to the West Coast of Ross-shire where we have members. For further details of the Association the following e-mail address will reach the Secretary, Mrs. Pam Piercy. dingwallbees "at" tiscali.co.uk No hobby is more fascinating or rewarding than beekeeping and nothing gives greater pleasure than eating one’s own very localised honey . . . honey that tastes as it should!
What better way of complementing your gardening and environmental skills than by becoming a beekeeper. Have you ever wondered how bees make honey? Did you know that honey bees are a very important part of the pollination process?
Throughout the centuries philosophers and naturalists have unfolded many strange and amazing facts about the bee colony and you may be surprised to learn that such a small creature has awakened so great an interest that more has been written about the bee than any other living creature apart from man himself.
Most current estimates indicate that wild bees in the UK have all but disappeared. Similar declines in wild bee populations have also occurred world-wide. Historically, of the 100 or so crops that feed the world, eighty percent were pollinated by wild bees. This is no longer the case. The demise of the wild bee population is attributable to habitat loss, pests, diseases and pesticide poisoning. The honey bee is the major carrier of pollen for seeded fruits and just about anything that grows on a vine. Which means everything from apples to courgettes, including the fruit and nuts eaten by birds and small mammals, need the help of bees.
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