KBKA members, bee keepers and people considering bee keeping may find the following websites and web pages of interest.
(If you find any of the links on this page are broken or if you'd like to suggest any website or webpage that you think may interest others please leave a comment for the club's webmaster using the facility at the bottom of the page.)
Links for prospective or new bee keepers
Website of the The British Beekeepers Association (http://www.britishbee.org.uk), including a getting started section for beginners, that includes: About Beekeeping, How do I Start Beekeeping and First steps in Beekeeping. There is also equipment advice for those new to bee keeping.
The BBKA site also has information leaflets and articles and there is a forum for beginners questions (which you can just browse).
Plans for making 'national' standard beehives can be found at:
Most suppliers have beginners kits. (The KBKA makes does not endorse or make recomendations concerning suppliers or the contents the kits listed below.)
There is also a ebay type site for beekeeping http://www.bid4bees.co.uk/ (You should use all the caution or more that you would when buying anything from strangers if bidding or buying from this site.) For fun you might want play 'spot the queen' at: http://www.reigatebeekeepers.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=48&Itemid=57 Links for club members and other links of interest
The Wiltshire Beekeepers Association - Members of KBKA are also members of WBKA. Browse this site to see what the other chapters of WBKA are doing. (Or go direct to Salisbury BKA).
Ron Hoskins (The Swindon Honeybee Conservation Group, Swindon & District BKA), on breeding for varroa tolerance: http://www.moraybeekeepers.co.uk/Stanton_Park.htm. The video referenced on the SHCG webpage of bees removing varroa from brood from the germain IWF website, requires windows media player (if you follow this link) and is at 6 minutes and 50 seconds into the video if you want to fast forward to the action.
Similarly queen breeding in cornwall including selecting for varroa tolerance: http://www.kilty.demon.co.uk/beekeeping/improvement.htm
The BBKA has a wide variety of forums for debating all matters bee at http://www.britishbee.org.uk/forum/index.php
Sourcing QueensBritish black bees: David Cambell (sold out 2010)
Carniolan: Doug the bee
Art and folkloreMany fantastic photographs of bees and apiculture on Éric Tourneret website.
Art centered on or featuring bees http://beesinart.com/ The folklore and mythology of bees (http://www.beelore.co.uk/) a site created and maintained by club member Chris Walton to gather, archive and disseminate information regarding the folklore and mythology of bees.
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