North Staffordshire Beekeepers For everyone interested in honeybees in and around North Staffordshire

Queen rearing method

Tue 15 Apr 2025

Dave Bonner“Queen Rearing with the Miller method and a Cloake Board” Joint meeting with North Staffs BKA.

From 19:30

At Cranage Village Hall, CW4 8EQ.

Dave Bonner is an "enthusiastic hobbyist" who has been keeping bees since 2006 and runs 25 productive colonies. He is a Master Beekeeper and has been going to Uganda regularly since 2008.  As a Project manager for Bees Abroad, he has four active projects in rural communities in Northern Uganda. He is active in the Warwickshire BBKA, mainly in education and training of beekeepers, and was a Seasonal Bee Inspector for ten years.


 

The talk will take you through a relatively simple queen rearing method, which requires the minimum of equipment and is therefore accessible to all. 

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