NEWBKA Annual General Meeting to be held at Hanbury Village Hall, on Wednesday 21st November, from 7.30pm

Please come along to the NEWBKA AGM to be held at

Hanbury Village Hall
Hanbury Road
Hanbury
Bromsgrove
B60 4BY

on Wednesday 21st November from 7.30pm

Link to the location:

https://www.bing.com/maps?cp=52.2884712219238%7e-2.09287810325623&name=Hanbury+Road%2c+Bromsgrove&where1=Hanbury+Road%2c+Bromsgrove&ppois=52.2884712219238_-2.09287810325623_Hanbury+Road%2c+Bromsgrove


The Association is calling for nominations for the Chair position and Association Secretary along with at least two new committee members.

Please send your nominations through to:

katechase@Hotmail.co.uk and annwinspear@gmail.com

We look forward to hearing from you.

Honey Show at Hagley Village Hall held on 8th September

The annual honey show was held at Hagley Village Hall on Saturday 8th September and many NEWBKA members took part. Well done to all who entered and won prizes. It is always a great round up of the year and a reminder at how amazing bees are with some incredible honey related products on display including dry and sweet mead, liquid and set honey, honey cake, beeswax candles and frames of honey and cakes of wax and cut comb. A particular well done to Bob Powell and Alan Woollhead for having overall highest number of points gained for a NEWBKA member and for winning the liquid honey section. Personally, I thought the 3rd placed set honey in our section was incredible! The second from bottom picture below was the overall winner of the show and consisted of a composite entry by Lyndon Corbett and was of a very impressive standard.

The difference between an Asian & European Hornet

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-app-to-report-asian-hornet-sightings

Our local bee inspector kindly provided us with this block containing an Asian Hornet and the more familiar European Hornet. Can you tell which is which?

Yes the more familiar European Hornet has the browner body, without the yellow socks of the Asian Hornet which I'm sure you recognised as the top specimen. These examples have now faded, but the single yellow stripe near the top of the abdomen on the Asian Hornet is usually a distinctive feature and if any of us were to spot one, we should take a picture or capture it if possible, and report the sighting through to the government link above...

Apiary meetings update at Avoncroft

Please note there will be no apiary meetings at Avoncroft during August but weekly meetings will resume at 11.00am on 4th September.

We have a Master Beekeeper in NEWBKA

We are all very pleased to discover that NEWBKA committee member, Doctor Alan Woollhead has just heard that he has passed the final, 'Advanced Husbandry' exam to become a 'Master Beekeeper'. This is a major achievement and makes him, as far as I know, our first 'home grown' Master Beekeeper (there is another Master Beekeeper in Worcestershire, who recently moved into the county after she qualified).

Doctor Alan Woollhead practicing for his General Husbandry exam

Hanbury Countryside Show

A big thank you to everyone who helped at the Hanbury Countryside Show on Saturday 8th July 2018.

Membership Survey

All NEWBKA members will shortly be receiving a short legitimate survey in your e-mail inboxes and we would welcome your input please by completing and submitting your responses. The survey will be received from your chairperson katechase@hotmail.co.uk
Please do check your junk and spam folders if the survey is not within your main inbox in the next few days. Many thanks.