Sussex Beekeepers Association

Bee Banter - Rose and Crown, Mayfield
2024-08-28 19:30 - 22:00, 2024-06-26 19:30 - 22:00, 2024-04-24 19:30 - 22:00 (Europe/London)
Bee Banter – Rose and Crown, Mayfield
No need to book; just come along and chat.

HWBKA Summer Bar-B-Q
2024-08-11 12:00 - 15:30
Date and details to be confirmed
2024 Summer Bar-B-Q
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at:
Greenbank, Shepherds Hill, Buxted, TN22 4PX

Weald on the Field
2024-08-10 - 2024-08-11
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Bee Banter – Blue Anchor, Crowborough
2024-07-31 19:30 - 22:00, 2024-05-29 19:30 - 22:00, 2024-03-27 19:30 - 22:00
Bee Banter – Blue Anchor, Crowborough
Function room, Blue Anchor, Crowborough
No need to book; just come along and chat.

2024 Training Session 7: Varroa Control Options
2024-07-13 11:00 - 13:00
2024 Training Session 7: Varroa Control Options

Saturday 13th July – 11am -1pm – Horsted Green Apiary
Malcolm Wilkie

BBKA - Basic Assessment at Horsted Green apiary
2024-07-09 - 2024-07-10
Timings to be confirmed

2024 Training Session 6: Bee Safari
2024-06-28 - 2024-06-30
2024 Training Session 6: Bee Safari

Friday 28th June or Saturday 29th June – A visit to three apiaries.
Peter Coxon, Helen Hadley, Keith Obbard, Rob Gore, Jo Groom
A group of no more than 7
am or pm depending on your group leader

Bee Disease Day
2024-06-26 08:00 - 17:00 | Mountfield Village Hall, Robertsbridge, TN32 5LY

South of England Show
2024-06-07 - 2024-06-10

Sussex Beekeepers' Association - Bee Market
2024-05-18 10:00 - 17:30 | Uckfield Community College, Downsview Crescent, Uckfield, East Sussex, TN22 3DJ, United Kingdom
The Bee MarketMay 18 @ 10:00 am – 5:30 pm
Uckfield Community College
Downsview Crescent
Uckfield, East Sussex TN22 3DJ
Please see the SBKA site for auction conditions etc.
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PROGRAMME

9:00 Registration of auction entries
10:00 Bee Market opens to the general public.
11:00 Brief talk about how to take up Beekeeping – by Malcolm Wilkie Chair of High Weald Division in theatre AG02
11:00 Childrens’ activities – painting, colouring bee images, making simple bee houses/nesting tubes made from plastic guttering etc. by Maggie Pratt School Primary School Teacher and Co-owner of the ‘Bee People’ bee keeping supplies company in Reading Room AG14
12:00 Invited talk on ‘Drone Congregation Areas’ – by Stephen Flemming – co-editor of Bee Craft Magazine in theatre AG02
14:00 Auction of Bee Equipment, Bees and second-hand items in theatre AG01
16:30 Bee Market Closes

2024 Training Session 5: Use of Mini Mating Hives and Harvesting Queen Cells
2024-05-11 11:00 - 14:00
2024 Training Session 5: Use of Mini Mating Hives and Harvesting Queen Cells

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Saturday May 11th – 11am- 2pm
Malcolm Wilkie, Helen Hadley

Talk - Ivy Bees by Francis Ratnieks, Prof. at Univ. Sussex, LASI
2024-04-17 19:30 - 21:30 | Eastgate Baptist Church, Eastgate Street, Lewes, BN7 2LR, United Kingdom

2024 Training Session 4: Queen Rearing
2024-04-13 12:30 - 15:30
2024 Training Session 4: Queen Rearing

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Saturday 13th April – 12:30pm-3:30pm – Horsted Green Apiary
Helen Hadley, Peter Coxon
Setting up a colony for Queen rearing

2024 Beginners Session
2024-04-13 09:30 - 12:00
Beginners SessionGoing through a hive

BBKA Spring Convention
2024-04-12 08:00 - 2024-04-14 17:00 | Harper Adams University, TF10 8NB
12/13/14 April 2024
BBKA Spring Convention
Harper Adams University
Edgmond, Newport TF10 8NB

BBKA Spring Convention 2024
2024-04-12 - 2024-04-15
BBKA Spring Convention 2024 – celebrating 150 years of the BBKA – Bee part of it!Harper Adams University, Shropshire TF10 8NB
12th – 14th April 2024

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SBKA Committee Meeting
2024-04-10 19:30 - 21:30 | The Ram Inn, Firle, Lewes, East Sussex, BN8 6NS, United Kingdom

Combined Apiary Meeting & talk from Christine Stevens, Preparing Exhibits for Showing
2024-04-06 14:30 - 17:00 | Netherfield Village Hall, Netherfield Road, Battle, East Sussex, TN33 9QB

2024 Training Session 3: Swarm Control
2024-04-06 10:00 - 13:00
2024 Training Session 3: Swarm Control

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Saturday 6th April – 10am-1pm – Horsted Green Apiary
Rob Gore
Any beginners intending to get bees, please tell Rob who is running this session.

BBKA Module - Spring exams
2024-03-23 - 2024-03-24
BBKA Module – Spring exams

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Talk - Poisonous Honey by Pam Hunter
2024-03-20 19:30 - 21:30 | Eastgate Baptist Church, Eastgate Street, Lewes, BN7 2LR, United Kingdom

Talk by Pam Hunter ‘Non-standard Medications for the Control of Bee Problems
2024-03-08 19:30 - 21:30 | Mountfield Village Hall, Robertsbridge, TN32 5LY

2024 Training Session 2: Bee Biology
2024-03-07 19:00 - 21:30
2024 Training Session 2: Bee Biology

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• Malcolm Wilkie, Rob Gore
• CD about the life cycle of the honeybee.
• Bee Life cycle. Identification of the 3 castes.
• Development of bees from egg to adult.
• Functions of the 3 castes in the hive.
• Organisation of the colony – various worker tasks.
• Reproduction of the colony.
• The swarming impulse.
• The bee’s annual cycle.
• Bee products: honey, wax, pollen, & propolis; how & why the bees use them. Water.
• Foraging bee communication, pollination, and interaction plants & bees.

HWBKA Committee Meeting
2024-03-06 19:30 - 22:00
HWBKA Committee Meeting
March 6 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
This meeting is for committee members only, but if you have any issue that you would like raised then please email any member of the committee (or see contacts page).

Sussex Beekeepers' Association AGM - 2024
2024-03-02 13:00 - 17:30
Saturday 02 March 2024 – 1pm to 5:30pmFive Ashes village hall
AGM is starting at 2pm. Doors open at 1pm for Asian hornet traps and there will be microscopes to look at.
There will be a prize for the best Asian hornet trap.
Dan Morgan will talk about tracing the Asian hornet nest in Eastbourne. Afterwards there will be the judging of the traps and a discussion of the best traps and bait. We also will be tasting (I hope) mead and metheglin. Also we will be using the dissection microscope and dissecting some Asian hornets.
It would be extremely helpful if you can indicate whether you intend to attend and whether you might be providing an Asian Hornet Trap entry (N.B. you can enter on the day, but it would help if you can indicate ahead of time).
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SBKA AGM
2024-03-02 13:00 - 17:30 | Five Ashes Village Hall, Five Ashes, East Sussex, TN20 6JA, United Kingdom
In addition to conducting the mandated proper business of the Sussex Beekeepers’ Association, the 2024 AGM will also have a special emphasis and theme.
Given the dramatic increase in the Asian Hornet nests found in 2023 the theme will be the Asian Hornet and what we need to do to help combat this threat.
To this end Dan Morgan, our seasonal Bee Inspector and invited speaker, will talk about tracing the Asian Hornet nest in Eastbourne and his experiences with other nests in the South East.
The HWBKA are hosting the SBKA 2024 AGM and at the HWBKA AGM recently there were numerous DIY Hornet Trap entries in the DIY section, and these created a good deal of interest. So, there will also be a DIY Trap competition open to all divisions which should be interesting, fun, and drive-up awareness and attendance. To keep on top of the AH threat it will be increasingly important for cross-division and cross association collaboration so a good attendance should be focus.
After judging of the traps there will also be a substantial prize for the best entry.
There will be a mead tasting and the other usual refreshments and cakes. So, in order to help with the catering it would be extremely helpful if you can indicate whether you intend to attend using the form link <<- here ->> and whether you might be providing an Asian Hornet Trap entry (N.B. you can enter on the day, but it would help if you can indicate ahead of time) .
