Derry and District Beekeepers

Doesn’t the summer pass in a flash!!! Just a reminder that our monthly meeting is tomorrow evening. It’s in the conference room of the Conservation Volunteers Building in Brooke Park

Thanks to Tom Williamson for coming along to Derry and District Beekeepers on Saturday ,Tom provided several hours of information and practical application on disease identification , prevention and management .

Colin Kennedy will do a presentation at our May monthly meeting on the development plans for St. Columbs Park and Brooke Park. The Manse Basement Cultúrlann Uí Chanáin 37 Great James Street . Starting time is 7pm

Some of our new folk getting their hands on bees, while others get a bit of spring cleaning started

It was a pleasure to welcome Mark to Derry & District Beekeepers we hope it will be the first of many collaborative workings which will ultimately benefit our native honey bee.

April meeting Wednesday (3rd), in The Manse Basement for it. Starting time is 7pm. Speaker this month is Mark Wallace. Mark is a Master Beekeeper and might already be known to many of you. He will talk about SWARMING and how this can be managed.

Thank you to all who called to our display yesterday in Brooke Park , we are pleased to have been a part of the Derry and Strabane City Council event . We met loads of potential bee-keepers , and even had a few special guests buzzn around our pitch !! , see photo below.

We are pleased to confirm that Derry and District Beekeepers will "bee" part of this great event .

March Update : Our speaker was the inimitable Dr Jim Loughrey. He talked about a natural approach to Beekeeping with new information from the conference on natural beekeeping which was held in he Netherlands last year. It was an interesting , thought provoking and lively session.

Unfortunately we haven't mastered the waggle dance, so here is a a map showing you the location of Conservation Volunteers , hope to see you on Wednesday night .

Meeting :March 6th, 7pm ! held in THE CONFERENCE ROOM , Conservation Volunteers building, in BROOKE PARK itself. The entrance to Brooke Park leisure centre is off Rosemount Avenue, and there is a car park just to the back of the Conservation volunteers building.

Just a few pics from the first night of our 2019 preliminary course , it wasnt all hard work , we also had time to enjoy a well earned cuppa , see you all again next week .

We took the opportunity yesterday to mark several of our 2018 queens , a rare but welcomed February "summers" day.

Re-stocking fondant yesterday , still a way to go before they can go it alone .

We welcome Mark Wallace as our speaker on the 3rd April. A full time and Master Beekeeper, Mark will talk about swarming, swarm control and also touch on the interesting subject of queen introduction.

Training and development Guest Speakers March 2019 Dr Jim Loughrey is the guest speaker at our meeting on the 6th March. He is an accomplished and entertaining speaker. According to Jim, he has been a beekeeper for over 30 years, but he hopes that the bees have forgiven him!

Thank you to Tom Williamson Senior Bee Inspector who gave a very informative talk on all things bees !,in particular diseases ,disease identification and reporting. Tom is pictured here with Club Chairman Gary Gray