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
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
Useful Beekeeping Information
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
Recent additions:
An effective control for varroa ~ see articles
NBU Article on Varroa control ~ see articles
Samual Ramsey on how varroa feed on bees. - see Videos