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Insect Pollination of Cultivated Crops - S.E. MacGregor

Nope, KB wholeheartedly accepted the proposed arbitration. What was not concluded by those in the room is whether the BBKA should pay for that arbitration. It suited the chairman of the meeting to state that KB had rejected arbitration, even before asking the other parties if they were willing...

The World of the Honey Bee, Colin Butler The Behaviour and Social Life of Honeybees, Ronald Ribbands

Double brood commercials.

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There are two zones in play as I understand it: 100Km zone - no movement of bees etc. into or out of this zone, movement allowed within the zone, except: 16Km zone - standstill zone centred on first identified case. No movement of bees etc. at all in this zone. Think of Foulbrood standstill...

The Italian case is centred around a port. Was it the movement of bees or fruit? Will we ever know for sure?

Except your logic falls over if you knew that 1/3rd of the colonies in the UK are kept by circa 360-400 individuals who rely on beekeeping for some or all of their income: bee farmers. Suddenly that small and largely invisible group becomes a lot more significant when we are talking about...

The CMS is a tool for storing and presenting website content. As you say, it adds the desired gloss to the content as it serves it. Unless it is particularly pig-headed in its usage (i.e. the interface sucks) then what content is put in there, how it is put in, and how up to date it is should...

My concerns exactly. That's exactly the sort of thinking that they need, and by keeping that related material grouped logically together and owned by one editor, content could be updated and sense-checked so much more effectively and efficiently :)

I've asked. My own county now has so many ADM proposals on its books to discuss and decide prior to the October deadline that it can't accept more!

Interestingly, just reviewing last year's accounts for a different reason, and in the section regarding 'Public Benefit' (charities being obliged to demonstrate a degree of public benefit), the website is listed as the first of eight activities: My bold!

True, I don't like posting monster photos but didn't really get the detail across like the big one ;)

Do they look like these? The tell-tale is that the worker legs and the little ridge at the back of the thorax are pale brown rather than blackish. It's known as 'Cordovan' and is a recessive trait that results in lighter coloured hard areas of the exoskeleton. Associated with Ligustica, and...

No problems here - we had hives between a sub-station for a large industrial estate (proper Flash Gordon stuff) and the main Penzance-London railway line, neither adversely affected the bees.

Certainly within the Bee Farmers it's the Scottish beekeepers who have been leading the way with adopting (and evangelising) polystyrene hives.

Interesting point about the free papers. When faced with Doug Brown's response I was tempted just to "publish and be damned" here so that everyone could have free papers too since that was one of the site's problems. One area of the BBKA that has done a conspicuously good job over the years is...

On the one hand, I would agree since I have seen spending far in excess of that for a relaunch. However the site is not itself complex, yet perversely a number of technical/functional decisions have been taken where most with some experience would say "Don't do it that way" (e.g. the discussion...

My understanding was that the £40,000 figure was the total paid so far for development and hosting of the site, and does not include 'absorbed' costs relating to the administration and editing of content, shop items, etc, which come under the general 'office' costs and/or volunteered time.

Murray McGregor has one and speaks similarly highly of it. HM - have a chat to John Mellis up in Dumfries (see BFA Yearbook), he has tried various and now has a Dakota Gunness or similar, although he mentioned that it is very noisy. He very kindly lent me a Thomas vibrating blade uncapper to...