Cooking with Honey
Cooking with Honey
North Pennines AONB ~ Oral History of Beekeeping
Knitting & Crafts
The members of Carlisle Beekeepers Association have between them many years experience in all aspects of beekeeping, honey and wax production, cooking with honey and a variety of craft skills.
The articles below represent individual opinions and ideas ~ if you have any article you would like to add please let us know.
Flowering Currant ~ Walter McPhee
BRANCH LIBRARY
The branch maintain a small library of books and DVDs which are available to members to borrow.
To see the current library stock
EQUIPMENT FOR LOAN
The Branch maintain a small stock of equipment which can be borrowed by members. To see the equipment list: click here
Cumbria Beekeepers also have equipment which may be borrowed by branch members. To see the Cumbrian equipment list: click here
Articles and Booklets
Videos
Physics for Beekeepers
Information Leaflets & Posters
Articles
Hive Record Card ~ MS Word file ~ here
Veterinary Medicine Administration Record ~ here
Winter Feeding including Thymol ~ here
Varroa Management. Learner, Molyneux & Bonner ~ here
An effective control for varroa ~ here
How to Make Fondant ~ recipe here (with permission from EMBA)
How to get bees from a National to a Langstroth ~ Peter Matthews ~ here
Hive Hygiene ~ Ian Homer ~ here
Where the bee sucks, artificial pollinators ~ here
Backpacks to save our bees are no flight of fancy ~ here
Booklets
There are queen cells in my hive, what should I do? - Wally Shaw ~ here
Basics of Beekeeping - Magnus Peterson (Scottish Beekeepers) ~ here
My Beekeeping Year - Ian Craig (Scottish Beekeepers) ~ here
Parasites of Honeybees - Dr Mary Coffey - here
North Pennines AONB - Oral History of Beekeeping
Syd Parker: getting the car stuck on the Moss. ~ here
Nick Mills: starting beekeeping in Botswana. ~ here
Oral history of beekeeping full film ~ here
Cooking with Honey
Honey Recipes 1 ~ Lorraine Priestley ~ here
Honey Recipes 2 ~ Lorraine Priestley ~ here
Honey Recipes 3 ~ Lorraine Priestley ~ here
Honey Recipes 4 ~ Lorraine Priestley ~ here
Roger Patterson’s Honey Recipes ~ here
Physics for Beekeepers
Temperature in the Hive - ~ here
Asian Hornet Information
Information Leaflets and Posters
Carlisle Beekeepers Association Leaflet ~ here
Oilseed Rape, poster ~ here
Orchards, poster ~ here
Useful Beekeeping Links
Useful Beekeeping Information
FREE BOOKLETS
Fantastic range of booklets free to read from the Welsh Beekeeping Association, cover swarm control, making increases, comb change and much more ~ click here
Asian Hornet Information
Asian Hornet identification chart ~ here
Asian Hornet identification poster ~ here
Build a simple hornet trap ~ plan ~ here
Build a simple hornet trap ~ video ~ here
Advice on using and baiting a hornet trap ~ here
If you think you have seen an Asian Hornet take a picture and email it with details of where you saw it and your contact information to ~ alertnonnative@ceh.ac.uk
Report sighting on line ~ here
Asian Hornet Watch app for Iphone ~ here
Asian Hornet Watch app for android ~ here
Hornet video ~ here