Beeconnected

[Poly Hive]

May or may not be useful.

https://beeconnected.org.uk/

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[Marton]

Has anyone who’s signed up been contacted?

Non of the people I’ve spoken to have.


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[Codford]

I live in rural Wiltshire, surrounded by farmland. None of our 3 closest neighbors (all farmers) had ever heard of "Beeconnected". That said, they are all hugely supportive of my efforts and let me know what, when and where they will be spraying - verbally.

 

[colinc]

Signed up 2 years ago. Not had a single email and they aren’t going to junk either.


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[wightbees]

I signed up for the hell of it, but not holding my breath on any local to me farmers getting involved!

 

[Amari]

Signed up 2 years ago. Not had a single email and they aren’t going to junk either.
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Ditto

 

[madasafish]

Signed up 2 years ago. Not had a single email and they aren’t going to junk either.


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+1


Local field adjoining garden where hives are has been sprayed every year with weedkillers.

 

[masterBK]

I was under the impression "Beeconnected" will only contact beekeepers that have registered with them in an area if insecticides are used (and so not weedkillers or fungicides, fertiisers).

 

[colinc]

As no one on here seems to know of anyone ever receiving a warning that implies that either the farmers are unaware of it or not supporting it.


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[Dodge]

Live in Shirley WM near the Railway Station. No emails from Beeconnected here.

 

[Jowlpost]

Here are some facts about Bee Connected researched from the internet, FERA, academic researchers and news articles.

it is funded by Bayer, run by the crop association .. it only notifies farming insecticide use which is 7% of everything they are spraying. It is voluntary and free. It does not focus on all the other users of pesticides. At the end of the day, with such a restricted brief it is never going to work for us.
Combinations of Herbicides and Fungicides can be 12 times more deadly to pollinators than insecticides.
85% of all the bees out there are as a result of us, amateur bee keepers.
Farming Pesticide use has gone up by 29% in the last 6 years.
Failure to notify known bee keepers, who's bees could reasonably be expected to be on your crops, could legally be negligence.
November is the peak month for insecticide use and we have not had a single alert, and our local farmer could not remeber the name of this scheme he is part of.
Farmers are not the only promblem, Pest control companies, golf courses, Allotments (yes!) large hotels and anywhere where they want perfect lawns.

Bee pollination is worth £650million to the UK economy every year so is it not time these pesticide sprayers paid us for our services? .. or at least told us when they are spraying?
or don't we actually need a system run by us and not those with a massive vested interest. Bayer made 4.5 BILLION € profit last year, their scheme is supported by the BBKA and NFU,

From 16 hives we have lost 18 queens this year and you can see from th epicture a 2" deep pile of dead bees with 4 month old queen #22 dead in the middle under a dead drone.

LAST statistic (but we have a lot more) .. research in Germany in the past 26 years ... the numbers of flying insects has reduced by over 70%

 

[Hivemaker.]

Bee pollination is worth £650million to the UK economy every year so is it not time these pesticide sprayers paid us for our services?

There are pollination contracts where they do pay.

From 16 hives we have lost 18 queens this year and you can see from th epicture a 2" deep pile of dead bees with 4 month old queen #22 dead in the middle under a dead drone.

What was the cause?

 

[peteinwilts]

From 16 hives we have lost 18 queens this year and you can see from th epicture a 2" deep pile of dead bees with 4 month old queen #22 dead in the middle under a dead drone.

If it is queens you are losing, it could well be related to a poor mating season during August 2016 and 2017.

if they are combined with piles of dead bees in front of the entrance, my money would be on CBPV.
It could be worth sending some for testing. If the problem is chemical, it should show in the results. The cause of CBPV is still largely unknown, but know a lot of people that have suffered with it, including a bee farmer that lost about 1/3 of his bees.

 

[Jowlpost]

If it is queens you are losing, it could well be related to a poor mating season during August 2016 and 2017.

if they are combined with piles of dead bees in front of the entrance, my money would be on CBPV.
It could be worth sending some for testing. If the problem is chemical, it should show in the results. The cause of CBPV is still largely unknown, but know a lot of people that have suffered with it, including a bee farmer that lost about 1/3 of his bees.

Hi, i wish .. two were bought in queens just found another hive wiped out today. Virtuall no foragers There are tractors spraying everywhere round here this week. 1st time we sent in Samples 3rd week in April to the Bee unit, got a reply mid August .. could not find a reason. Not suprising after 3 1/2 months.

 

[Jowlpost]

There are pollination contracts where they do pay.




What was the cause?

After 3 1/2 months waiting on the bee units they could not tell us.

 

[Hivemaker.]

Sounds likely to be CBPV.

 

[Poly Hive]

I now don't bother at all when I see spraying. ITLD mentioned in a post that shutting in did more harm than the sprays so I leave them to it and not found a problem in the last oh 5 or maybe 7 years.

Over the four or 6 years, my colonies were on a farm where some of the crops got 17 sprays each so there was a considerable exposure.

I suggest your issue is something else.

PH

 

[oxnatbees]

I signed up to Beeconnected a year ago and never got one warning. I am in rural Oxfordshire like Jowl. I've had some queen failures this year, but omly in casts I collected. Probably lucky with crop spraying.

A few weeks ago Beeconnected emailed me to say I needed to update my password as they had done some kind of upgrade... Which I think means they have very, very, very, very poor IT skills, and have done an upgrade, realisd it's incompatible but got no backups to revert to.

I followed their instructions to create a new password but they didn't work, it seemed they'd deleted my username as well.

I sent an email to the contact address on their website and got no reply.

I decided not to re-register from scratch, they seem shambolic, and cavalier with personal database. Now I know they're funded by Bayer I am very dubious about them.

 

[Jowlpost]

Perhaps it is but how do i get facts and not just opinions? it seems to me we need to find out exactly what is going on.