Lectures

Description

I'm happy to visit your beekeeping association or, indeed, any group, to deliver a lecture on bees and beekeeping. Some of the subjects I'll talk about are below, although I can talk on any facet of this are that might interest you.


Topics I have recently spoken on include

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  • Management of an Apiary to Maximize Honey Yield

    • How to get the most out of your hives, specifically in amount of honey harvested.

  • Mastering Swarms Management

    • How to manage your colonies when they decide they might like to swarm.

  • Implications of the Asian Hornet for Beekeepers

    • What the arrival of the Asian Hornet means for bees and beekeepers.

  • Reading a colony of bees

    • This covers the aspects of interpreting the bees' behaviour.

  • Managing an on-going queen-rearing programme

    • How to successfully run a queen-rearing programme.

  • Important colony handling skills

    • Describes the skills you need to manage your colonies

  • The Drone: Lazy layabout or Critical contributor?

    • Explains how drones fit into the colony as well as their mating behaviours

  • Mind Your Beeswax!
    Hive products for fun and profit - how to harvest and exploit your wax.

    • How to collect and process wax from your bees, and what to make with it.

  • The Endocrine System & Fat Body

    • Quite an in-depth look at the bee's glands and the hormones they produce, including a look at the fat body.

  • Honey Bee Internals

    • A lightning tour of the bee's internal anatomy.

  • Really Simple Genetics

    • As the name indicates, this is a very high-level explanation of the honey bee's genetics as it pertains to beekeeping. The goal of this is to make any beekeeper aware of what they should be aware of when thinking of queen-rearing.

  • Mendelian Genetics

    • A rather advanced introduction to genetics, substantially more complex than the one above.