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Monthly Magazine of the
Essex Beekeepers’ Association
Furthering the Craft of Beekeeping in Essex Registered Charity number 1031419
www.ebka.org
Monthly Magazine of the Essex Beekeepers’ Association
Furthering the Craft of Beekeeping in Essex Registered Charity number 1031419
www.ebka.org
THE
ESSEX BEEKEEPER
Monthly Magazine of the Essex Beekeepers’ Association
Furthering the Craft of Beekeeping in Essex
Registered Charity number 1031419
www.ebka.org
Issue No. 642 June 2018
In this issue:
Report on Ted Hooper
Memorial Lecture
Save the Bees
Conference details
Asian Hornet Traps
My Colony is Queenless!
A Rose by any other
Name
Hives for Large Colonies
Meeting Dates
A prime swarm resting in
Wisteria in a friend’s garden
Photo by Jean Smye
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Meetings in June:
3 June Sunday
2.30pm
Saffron
Walden
Garden Party and talk by Darren Lerigo - Helping
the Honey bee. Radwinter CB10 2TQ
6 June Wednesday
7.30pm Southend
Honey Extraction & plant exchange. W.I. Hall,
Bellingham Lane, Rayleigh SS6 7ED
6 June Wednesday
9am - 4pm Chelmsford
Essex Schools Food & Farming Day - Writtle College
Contact: Tim Pegrem 01245 471 878
7 June Thursday
8.00pm Harlow
The importance of Drones - Chad Colby-Blake. Kings
Church, Red Willow, Harlow CM19 5PA
7 June Thursday
8.00pm Romford
Top Bar Hives - Peter Aldridge. Chadwick Hall, Main
Road, Gidea Park RM2 5EL
12 June Tuesday
6.30pm Chelmsford
Queen clipping & Marking. Divisional Apiary, Hylands
Park, Chelmsford.
Contact: Jon Beasley 07776 180 524.
14 June Thursday
7.30pm
Saffron
Walden
Showing your honey - tips for success. Mike Barke.
Great Dunmow Day Centre, Great Dunmow CM6 1EQ
16 June Saturday Epping
Forest Apiary visit - Peter & Barbara Dalby.
18 June Monday
6.00pm Chelmsford
Reception to celebrate 100 years of Division.
Drone laying Queens & laying workers - Jane Ridler.
Chelmsford Museum, Oaklands Park, Moulsham
Street, Chelmsford, Essex, CM2 9AQ.
20 June Wednesday
6.00pm
Dengie 100
& Maldon
Marking Queens - why do it? Arcadia Apiary,
Burnham-on-Crouch
21 June Thursday
10 - 4
County
Event
EBKA Bee Health Day - Langham Community Centre,
School Road, Langham, Colchester CO4 5PA
21/22
June
Thursday
& Friday
10 - 4.30
JAR COLLECTION DAYS
at Chelmsford
24 June Sunday
3.00pm Braintree
Apiary meeting & gardens tour - Cressing Temple
Barns CM77 8PD. Jan French 07725 166 609
Divisional Meetings - June and July 2018
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Meetings in July
3 July Tuesday
7.30pm
Saffron
Walden
Preparing for Winter. Thaxted Day Centre, Vicarage
Lane, CM6 2RL
16 July Monday
7.30pm Chelmsford
Honey Show Preparation - Jim McNeill & WI member.
The Link, Rainsford Road, Chelmsford CM1 2XB
18 July Wednesday
6.00pm
Dengie 100
& Maldon Requeening - is it too late? Carters Apiary, Maldon
21 July Saturday Epping
Forest
Honey Show Preparation - Peter Beacham.
Wanstead Apiary.
25 July Wednesday
7.30pm Southend
Pitsea Waste Management. A representative of
Veolia on the considerations of the environment. W.I.
Hall, Bellingham Lane, Rayleigh SS6 7ED.
29 July Sunday
3.00pm Braintree
Apiary Meeting - Great Totham CM9 8BR
Contact: Jean Gill 01621 891 422 or Joyce Wells
01376 518 541.
Would each Division ensure that their meeting details - topic, venue and time
are notified to the editor at [email protected] by the 4th of the month so that
a comprehensive list is available to members.
EBKA Annual Honey Show - Orsett on 1st September 2018
Show Schedule and Entry Form accompanies this issue or
download from EBKA website
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The first of the two eminent speakers at the third Ted Hooper Memorial
Lecture was Professor Richard Pywell.
Richard is the Senior Principal Scientist at
the NERC Centre for Ecology & Hydrology.
He outlined the structure of the CEH and
spoke of the many threads of the research
with which he is involved, including -
Pollinator conservation - Since 1999 he
has worked closely with Defra and the
farming industry to develop practical and
effective means of conserving and
enhancing pollinator populations within the
intensively farmed countryside. This has
involved designing new pollen and nectar-
rich habitats to support bees and engaging
with the farming industry to encourage their creation over large areas of the
countryside through initiatives such as Operation Pollinator.
Agri-environmental research – Quantifying the effectiveness of existing
agri-environment practices and policies, developing new and innovative
approaches to enhance biodiversity and ecosystem function on commercial
farms, and demonstrating the importance of farmer training and engagement
in the delivery of policy objectives. He is currently leading several projects
commissioned by Defra to improve the effectiveness of agri-environment
management measures in conserving farmland biodiversity, and protecting
water and soil resources. This involves management to improve the quality
of hedgerow habitats on farmland and to conserve declining arable plant
species. Working closely with the farming industry and Natural England to
design economically viable and environmentally sustainable means of
controlling commercially important weed species, such as Blackgrass.
Experimental Farm Platforms - He has designed and implemented a large-
scale ecological experiment on a 1,000ha commercial arable farm in
Buckinghamshire. The aim is to test the potential for environmentally
sustainable increases in agricultural production by enhancing species
(pollinations, pest control species) and ecosystem functions that support
crop yields.
The Ted Hooper Memorial Lecture
Sunday 22 April 2018
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This 10 year experiment in so-called ‘ecological intensification’ is funded by
Defra, Natural England and the farming industry.
National Honey Monitoring Scheme - CEH research has shown that,
despite the implementation of the EU moratorium limiting the use of neonico-
tinoid seed dressings on mass flowering plants, there are still detectable
levels of neonicotinoids present in UK honey. Although the detected
concentrations aren’t harmful to humans, the exposure may pose a threat to
bee health and survival. The National Honey Monitoring Scheme invites
beekeepers to collect honey samples so that the pollen content can be
analysed and screened for any pesticide residues to provide an early
warning of any changes in bee diet and new threats from pesticide
exposure. More details if you are interested at: www.ceh.ac.uk/honey.
It was a fascinating talk by a very knowledgeable man at the forefront of
monitoring and quantifying the threats to pollinators and seeking solutions.
The second speaker was Norman Carreck —
Norman is the Science Director at the
International Bee Research Association
(IBRA) based at Sussex University and
spoke about the work of IBRA and, the
impact that its founder, Eva Crane, had
made in the world of beekeeping.
The International Bee Research
Association (IBRA) promotes the value of
bees by providing information on bee
science and beekeeping worldwide and
communicating science to the general
public.
Its database and information services,
including journals, teaching aids and
other publications, embrace all bee species whether managed by man for
pollination or their products, or truly wild.
Eva Crane was born in 1912 and was educated at Sydenham school in Kent
and won a scholarship to read mathematics at King's College London. She
completed her degree in two years, then took an MSc in quantum
mechanics, and received her PhD in nuclear physics from London University
in 1938. In 1941 she was appointed to a lectureship in physics at Sheffield
University. A career in the rapidly developing world of nuclear physics
beckoned.
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However, in July 1942 she married, and one of the wedding presents was
bees, the purpose of which was to provide honey at a time of sugar
shortages.
Eva's curiosity was aroused, and she set about finding out all she could
about these fascinating insects, starting with an immediate subscription to
Bee World. She then became a member of the British Beekeepers
Association and soon took over as secretary of its research committee. In
1949 she founded the Bee Research Association, an international body in
outlook and membership from the beginning, though it did not add the word
international to its title until 1976 when it became the IBRA.
Between 1950 and 1990, Eva's pursuit of all things related to bees took her
to more than 60 countries and resulted in a number of discoveries. These,
along with her ability to put together clues and then report her findings
lucidly, have made her work (more than 180 publications in all), inspirational.
A Book of Honey (1980) and the Archaeology of Beekeeping (1983) reflected
her strong interests in nutrition and the ancient past of beekeeping. She
retired from the IBRA in 1984 to concentrate on two seminal tomes, Bees
and Beekeeping - Science, Practice and World Resources (1991), and the
World History of Beekeeping and Honey Hunting (1999).
In 1985 Eva was awarded an honorary doctorate from Ohio State University
and was made an OBE in 1986. She died in 2007
Norman went on to outline the work of IBRA in the 21st century which is
staffed by 8 scientists in 7 countries and publishes its research papers,
journals and books through Taylor & Francis online.
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Today we spent a few hours saving some bees.
A bee friendly home owner was having a dying Ash tree removed and wanted
to save the bee colony which had made a cavity, some 20 foot up its trunk,
home.
The day involved 2 tree surgeons, 2 beekeepers, 2 home owners, 2 dogs and
lots of tea. It all started with a cold morning, smoke, rags to block the holes in
the trunk and some clingfilm to block all exits.
Next the 1/2 tonne trunk was cut off with a chainsaw and lowered to the
ground. With the bees apparently unworried by the
whole process, we decided it was time for a second
cup of tea.
A couple of very careful
cuts later and we had
access to the colony.
We had initially thought
the colony had made its
home down the centre
of the dying trunk, but it
became clear that they
had made their home in a medicine ball sized cavity,
which looked like it had been a woodpecker nest.
Finally came the easiest part. The pieces of comb
came away quite easily, all well filled with brood, larvae
and eggs. The last of the bees were brushed carefully
into the hive and we were done. An hour later and the
hive was installed in our apiary to settle down after the
excitement of the day.
Whilst the weather, cold and drizzly, was perfect for
moving bees, we were quite amazed just how docile
they were. Having been subjected to the noise and
vibration of a chainsaw, swung from a rope at 20 foot
up, and then pulled around, they barely needed the
smoke, they just sat there good as gold and let us move them around.
3 hours after we started, the job was done and the rain came down.
Save the bees
Andy Bennett - Braintree Division
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‘Bees and Well Being’
The theme of our conference is the ways in which bees enrich our lives and
make a difference to our world. Bees promote biodiversity by providing
essential pollination for a wide range of crops honey is becoming a powerful
new weapon in the battle against hospital-acquired infections being around
bees can raise a person’s self-esteem and the educational benefits are now
being recognised. Let’s learn more from our three speakers.
Speakers:
Bunny Campione, Daws Hall Trust Many of you will know Bunny from the Antiques Roadshow, but you may not
be aware that she is a fellow beekeeper.
Dr Rowena Jenkins, Swansea University Medical School,
Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases.
Rowena is a lecturer in microbiology.
Chris Newenham, Managing Director, Wilkin & Sons Ltd Chris will be speaking about the importance of bees as pollinators and the
collaboration between beekeepers and agriculturists.
Date and venue:
Saturday 3rd November 2018
10 - 4pm
Chelmsford City Racecourse
Great Leighs, CM3 1QP
Tickets £25
• Registration and view trade
stands from 9am
• Three excellent speakers
• Coffee and Danish pastries on
arrival.
• Buffet lunch
• Afternoon tea and cakes
• Raffle and trade stands
Payment:
By cheque payable to:
EBKA Braintree Division.
Send to: Neil Reeve, Hilly Ley, High
Easter, Chelmsford, Essex, CM1 4QZ
BACS Transfer:
Sort code 20-97-40 Account number
80089230
Reference EBKA Conference.
Send an email to
to advise transfer has been made and you
will receive an e-ticket by return.
Cash:
Cash to Braintree Committee members
when visiting Divisional meetings
(a ticket will be given immediately)
EBKA ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2018
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Asian Hornet Trap with 5 lures £6.00 + p&p
A simple and effective trap known to attract Asian
hornets.
Simply add the attractant to sugar and water.
Install the trap on a tree or other support. Use in
late winter/early Spring to attract Queen hornets.
Use an average of two traps for every five hives.
When the trap is full, or three weeks after
installation, replace the attractant solution.
Pack contains one trap and 5 sachets of attractant.
Full instructions are included. For more information visit:
http://www.veto-pharma.com/products/trap-and-hornet-attractant/
Specially developed to trap hornets.
The yellow bowl colour is known to attract hornets.
The shape of the trap concentrates the odour of the attractant and allows
better diffusion and efficacy.
The trap lid provides two entrances, both covered with a tunnel that
focuses and directs odours, shields ambient light, and prevents hornets
from escaping.
The trap is easily suspended from the hook included in the packaging.
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• Wasp Trap (4 Pack).
• The colour attracts Wasp and hornet. They come
in by the holes.
• The Trap is sold without the jar below. The cup
is environmentally friendly as you can recycle
the glass with the honey or fruit in syrup.
• Reusable and therefore economic.
The recipe for the attractant is just half water/syrup
or half water/Beer.
Price: £18.47 & FREE UK Delivery
Asian Hornet Traps. Make your own (see the beebase website) or
buy commercially available traps. A couple featured, one from Thornes and
another from Amazon.
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How many times have you heard this plaintive cry? It is true that colonies
do sometimes ‘lose’ their queens, but this is more often the fault of the
beekeeper, who may have dropped her in the grass or inadvertently
squashed her. This is a very good reason for marking queens so that they
can be easily spotted.
Queens can go missing on mating flights: they may have been eaten by a
bird, lose their way back home or entered the wrong hive. Swarms can
sometimes prove to be queenless, but leaving all that aside, the most
common time that queens appear to be absent is round about the time of
swarming/re-queening and this is where I want to pause while we consider
the timetable for a new queen to be functional following a swarming event;
Day 1 - The day the swarm departs.
Day 8/9 - The day the first young queen
emerges from her queen cell.
Day 14 – Queen is mature
Day 14 - ? Queen mating flights,
dependent on weather.
Day 18 - ? Queen starts to lay eggs. (A
few days after her mating flights)
Look at this calendar carefully. From
when the swarm departs, it is at least 18
days before the new queen will be laying.
If casts emerge it will be even longer
before the colony settles down with one queen and if the weather is poor, it
may be much longer before the queen is able to mate. Remember, she can
mate during the first month of her life although, given favourable conditions,
she will mate as soon as she is mature. A rough rule of thumb is that the
new queen should be laying by the time the last of the sealed brood from the
previous queen is hatching.
During the period when an unmated queen is in the hive, there is a distinct
possibility that she will fly off the comb if disturbed by looking for her and
bear in mind that she will be much harder to spot than a mated queen. She
may not come back and the colony will be well and truly queenless, with no
MY COLONY IS QUEENLESS!
Celia Davis – Warwickshire BKA - via ebees
A virgin queen hatching.
Photo courtesy Gerry Collins
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hope of making a new one. The answer is to leave well alone for two or three
weeks and allow the bees to do their job of nurturing the new queen and
getting her safely mated.
Even newly mated queens can be quite flighty, so take extreme care when
inspecting and always be ready to close the hive up quickly and do not be in
too much of a hurry to mark them. When a new queen starts to lay, she does
it slowly at first, just a few eggs and it takes about a week for her to build up to
a good rate. It is very easy to miss these first few eggs. I speak from
personal experience!
Another point to consider is that new queens often lay two eggs in a cell. It
seems that they need practice before they perfect their technique. This can
lead beekeepers to think they have laying workers when they have no such
thing. So be very cautious before you decide that you have no queen
following swarming. It is unusual for a laying queen to just disappear from a
hive. She is such an important individual that the bees will always ensure that
they have a new one, or a queen cell, before they will risk the existing queen.
Queens can get sick and die, but in my experience, this is quite unusual.
So, the rule is to always ensure that the queen is in a safe place when the
hive is being manipulated. I use a small nuc’ box with a fixed floor and lid and
I always put the frame containing the queen in it as soon as I find her. I have
to remember where this frame came from so that it goes back in the same
place, (I also have to remember to actually put it back!), but it means that I
know where the queen is if I need to find her for any reason and she is
protected from fingers, hive tools and general beekeeper clumsiness.
As a last resort, I always try to have spare replacement queens in nuc’s at all
times of the year. Remember that you can test for queenlessness by putting
a frame of eggs and very young larvae from another hive into the suspect
colony. A queenless hive will usually draw out some queen cells but often as
not, they will ignore it and later you will find a perfectly good queen.
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A big family of plants with some important bee plants as well as
the national flower of England and a group of plants that
epitomise the English country garden as well as that same
garden when it becomes completely neglected: the Rosaceae.
The range of plant types in this family is huge: trees, shrubs, climbers, low-
growing annuals and perennials, some of great economic importance, others
regarded as weeds. The flowers are symmetrical in appearance
(actinomorphic) and generally have 5 sepals and 5 petals with numerous
stamens, and these parts are usually carried above the ovary.
The roses we grow in our gardens, though undoubtedly beautiful, are of little
use to bees of any kind as they tend to carry double flowers which contain no
nectar and may not even contain pollen. Even the single roses, which allow
bees access do not contain useful nectar but produce pollen in copious
amounts. So the wild roses of the hedgerow and single cultivated varieties
are useful.
Apple (Malus pumila)
Apart from the rose itself the most familiar
member of the family is probably the apple,
and bees are vitally important as pollinators
of apple crops, as each individual tree
needs pollen from a tree of a different
variety in order to set fruit. In commercial
apple orchards a proportion of a different
variety called a ‘polliniser’ is planted along with the variety being grown to
ensure that pollen is available for cross-pollination. Sufficient bees are
needed to do the job effectively, usually between 2 and 3 colonies per
hectare. Other bees such as many solitaries and bumble bees, also use
apple as a source of pollen and nectar but, within commercial orchards, there
may not be sufficient wild bees, hence the need to transport honey bee
colonies to them. In a garden setting, neighbours’ trees usually provide the
essential pollen so variants are not so important.
Varieties of crab apple (M sylvestris), provided that the flowers are single, are
just as attractive to bees as the fruit trees. The apple flower is typical of the
family.
A ROSE BY ANY OTHER NAME
Celia Davis - courtesy of Warwickshire BKA via eBees
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Blackberry (Rubus fruticosus) and Raspberry (Rubus idaeus)
What an important plant blackberry is. There are more than 300 varieties of
wild blackberry in the UK and flowering extends from June through until
October. They are deep-rooted plants, as any gardener will tell you, so that
drought rarely affects their ability to produce nectar and they are totally
unfussy as to soil, growing just about anywhere. All nectar and pollen feeding
insects seem to love them and bees are no exception.
Raspberry is very similar in many ways to blackberry and honey bees can
collect a lot of nectar from it. Pollination, however, seems to be more
efficiently achieved by bumblebees. Because raspberry flowers hang down
the nectar inside them is less affected by rain than erect flowers such as
apple.
Hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna)
This is the normal species of Hawthorn, but there is a second species, which,
although not common, can be found if hunted for. This is C. laevigata. For
all practical purposes they look much the same although they can be easily
distinguished by close inspection of flowers and leaves, and they also form
hybrids.
It is a strange plant as far as honey bees are concerned as it seems to be an
intermittent provider of honey. The usual term applied to Hawthorn is ‘fickle’.
There is no clear answer as to why this should be. The honey is beautiful,
thick and amber, with a lovely aroma, but I have only obtained it once in any
quantity, despite living in an area full of Hawthorn trees and hedges.
Other members of the family ….
Cherries, pear, rowan, strawberry and meadowsweet are a few more
examples from the Rosaceae and there are many others. Meadowsweet
often has very pretty pale green pollen and is rarely an important plant
although in some damp areas it can be very abundant. Strawberry is not very
attractive to honey bees but insect pollination is necessary to produce well-
shaped fruits as large numbers of pollen grains are necessary to produce all
the little seeds and, if they are not all pollinated, the fruits are misshapen.
This can happen in other fruits with more than one seed in them.
The Rosaceae is a diverse family which is important both to
honey bees and beekeepers, on a commercial, as well as a
small, scale. As long as the fancy double varieties are avoided,
many are very useful for both pollen and nectar.
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Of all the apiaries I have visited, one in particular
was most memorable: an apiary which had a
Dadant - the largest hive in general use, the largest
frame, and it was full of bees.
For many years my bees were in National brood
and half, which has the same area as Dadant, but
the results were poor. Why? This was partly due to
poor Essex mongrel queens, which would
occasionally throw a prolific colony, but even then
the management of the frames was difficult. The
half box on top was nearly always full of stores and the bottom box had to be
kept clear of sealed stores in summer and replaced with foundation.
So what is the secret of the large Dadant frames?
At Buckfast, to make best use of their own queens, they used 12-frame
Dadant boxes but closed the bees down onto seven frames in the winter,
and this was the key to success. By March most of the stores were
consumed with a brood nest in the middle. After that the outer frames of
stores were removed, or moved outwards to be replaced, slowly and only as
necessary, with drawn comb or foundation from April to June. In this way the
full area of the frames was used for brood while the brood nest increased in
size. This is the key to producing large colonies. It's no good having sealed
stores on a brood frame, you can't use it, and nor can the queen. The bee-
keeper has to ensure that the brood nest can expand easily, without sealed
stores at the top of the frames except perhaps on the outer brood frames.
From the Buckfast experience their own queens needed 12 Dadant frames,
and this equates to 14 frames of Commercial or 20 frames of National. So
you see, our standard brood boxes are just not enough for a prolific queen.
The trick of reducing the number of frames for winter ensures that the
summer build-up uses the full height of brood frames, while the beekeeper
doesn't get lumbered with frames half full of sealed stores which bees are
reluctant to move. Instead of end boards, two full frames of stores may be
used by sliding them to the end when inspecting. The space outside the
brood should be filled with clear combs or foundation but don't let them be
filled with stores.
A good queen needs a large brood box managed to always give her room to
lay, by avoiding sealed stores which bees are very reluctant to clear; so you
have to be even more careful on a small box like the National. It's no good
leaving full frames of stores in the summer; more than a small arch of stores
will limit the queen's ability to increase colony size, leading to swarms.
HIVES
FOR
LARGE
COLONIES
Richard Alabone Chelmsford Division
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President of EBKA Pat Allen Hon CLM
EBKA Trustees:
Ian Nichols Chairman: 17 Dyers Hall Road, Leytonstone, London E11 4AD
email [email protected] tel. 0208 558 4733 / 07980 299 638
Chad Colby-Blake Secretary:
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Tom Keeper Treasurer: Kingfishers, 2 Chandlers, Burnham-on-Crouch CM0 8NY
email [email protected] tel: 07722 454 974 / 01621 784 626
Stuart Mitson [email protected] Braintree
Jan Tutton [email protected] Chelmsford
Tony Rand [email protected] Colchester
Kate Tuerena [email protected] Dengie Hundred & Maldon
Don McHale [email protected] Epping Forest
Nick Holmes [email protected] Harlow
Paul Wiltshire [email protected] Romford
Vanessa Wilkinson [email protected] Saffron Walden
Jean Smye [email protected] Southend
Divisional Contacts:
Braintree: Jan French 07725 166 609 Chelmsford: James Curtis 07940 757 831
Colchester: Morag Chase 01206 522 576 D.H. & Maldon: Carlie Mayes 07979 862 952
Harlow: Nick Holmes 07730 735 752 Epping Forest: Robin Harman 07971 237 312
Saffron Walden: Vanessa Wilkinson 01799 542 337 Romford: Pat Allen 01708 220 897
Southend: Pat Holden 01702 477 592
EBKA Education Secretary: Jane Ridler Old Barn House, 36 Walden Road,
Sewards End, Saffron Walden, Essex CB10 2LF
01799 218 023 [email protected]
EBKA Examinations Secretary: Pat Allen 8 Franks Cottages, St Mary’s Lane,
Upminster, Essex RM14 3NU
01708 220 897 [email protected]
The Essex Beekeeper Magazine:
Editor: David Smye email: [email protected] tel. 07710 197 078
Advertising: Jean Smye email: [email protected] tel. 07731 856 361
Mailing Secretary: Michael Elliott email: [email protected]
Printed by Streamset, 12 Rose Way, Purdeys Industrial Estate, Rochford, Essex SS4 1LY
Web site: Nick Holmes email: [email protected]
Regional Bee Inspectors for EBKA Region:
Epping Forest and Romford Divisions (excluding Brentwood):
Peter Folge [email protected] tel. 07775 119 433
All other Divisions:
Keith Morgan [email protected] tel. 01485 520 838 or 07919 004
WHO’S WHO & HOW TO CONTACT THEM
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