Photo Gallery

Please see our new "Photo Gallery" web page.
If you'd like to share interesting photos of your bees, swarms, different hive types or anything bee-related you've come across,
please email them to neworcsbeekeepers@gmail.com . 
All contributions would be welcome, as usual !

Doctor Apis will see you now......

Thanks to Mike Bickerton for sharing the below article: 
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6088589/Patients-cough-told-reach-HONEY-instead-calling-GP-antibiotics.html

.....which has recently been confirmed by researchers at Oxford University:
https://www.medicaldaily.com/honey-colds-and-coughs-instead-otc-products-455505     

....and for more scientific background, see article below in the British Medical Journal:
https://ebm.bmj.com/content/early/2020/07/28/bmjebm-2020-111336 

IMPORTANT - ASIAN HORNET EXERCISE !

For all current AHAT members, those wanting to join the team and all those just wishing to test their knowledge on Asian Hornets, please visit:

https://forms.gle/nfsUFL3fWmrDwq7XA

On successful completion of the exercise you will receive a message confirming success and you will have completed your registration for insurance purposes. 

Once you have completed your training you are eligible to be added to your Association’s insured team list (should you so desire). 

Sunday Quiz - What is that ?

Q. Can you tell what is hanging out of the back of this Queen?

A.  Courtesy of Stuart Spinks https://www.patreon.com/norfolkhoney/posts  via Chris Sutor:

This newly mated queen has literally just returned to the colony after a successful mating flight as can be seen by the "mating mark" at the tip of her abdomen.

The process of mating for honeybees is quite frankly "violent"! The drones latch on to the back of the flying queen, having successfully mated, they are thrown off her back and at that point the penis is detached. What you are seeing in the picture is the remnants of the last successful drone to mate with this queen. The workers will assist in removing it and the queen should then settle down to start laying eggs and head up her colony.