Very busy day collecting swarms around Chorley & Preston. Our Bee Vac was essential for several today, 1 was under a tiled roof. BBKA

Before cutting your lawn and treating it with weedkiller, consider how many creatures love living in long grass. Let grass grow lusciously long and help wildlife thrive. #nomow may #nomow #urbannature #buzzandscuttle

Happy Star Wars Day!

#Maythe4thbeewithyou
#StarWarsDay

Looking forward to meeting some of your young bee keepers on the 27th June in the marketplace at Schools Sustainability Conference NW Blackburn Rovers Community Trust

Amy's first swarm of 2024. Listen to the hum of the bees. Only honeybees (and ants) swarm. Nature is wonderful ❤️
BBKA Jimmys Farm & Wildlife Park Marketing Lancashire Andrew Clark #swarm #honeybees #bees #education

It was great to have Peter come to #YoungEntomolgistClub tonight to help with our bees.
The children in Chorley St James Year 5 and Chorley St James Year 6 loved seeing inside the hives!
🐝 The Bee Centre 🐝 BBKA Chorley St James

There's time to enter the Vital-Energi Town STEM Challenge to be delivered by Helen Heggie during the Sustainability Learning Conference NW 27.06.24 Blackburn Rovers Community Trust Helen is brokering this event. DM her for info Sponsored by Vital Energi Two £££prizes be awarded.

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Thanks for supporting this learning beyond the classroom event AquaExplorer Sue Barker Sustainability Learning CIC Rachel A Walmsley - Baobab Tree Books 🐝 The Bee Centre 🐝 Let's Go Zero | the zero carbon schools campaign Little Chatters Eco-Schools England Mel Energy Heroes Good to see the DfE promoting us again.

Do something special for #nature and take a break from mowing the lawn this May 🌸

Join the #NoMowMay movement with Plantlife 🌱

Find out more 👉 plantlife.org.uk/campaigns/nomo…

The eco-hub enjoyed an afternoon at our local care home where they spent time with the residents.

They helped with the planting in the garden ready for summer! 🌿🌼

Eco-Schools England

Want to create your own wildflower patch in your garden or a flower pot? Now is a great month to sow wildflower seeds! 🌱

Find out how to choose your seed mix and prepare the soil with our FREE guide 👉 ow.ly/qoKF50Rj6Qg

📷 Cate Taylor

Two further Asian hornet queens have been found by the NBU in spring traps.

Both hornets were found in a single trap near Four Oaks, Kent, with one being found on 22nd April and a second hornet found on 24th April.

3 queen hornets have been found at this location

Another successful Introduction to Beekeeping course completed, 10 happy newbees ready to be released into the amazing world of beekeeping, here are some of their reviews

Good morning, let's start celebrating the start of the weekend and 1 more sleep until #InternationalDayoftheDandelion #dandelions

National Bee Unit Alert - Starvation

The NBU are raising this concern during this cold spring weather...

During inspection visits this week our Inspectors have witnessed many colonies struggling with starvation.

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The May edition of BBKA News is out soon

🐝Wally Shaw looks at cast swarming
🐝Dan Basterfield examines simple queen raising
🐝Lynfa Davies highlights the Miller queen rearing method
🐝Tim Lovett celebrates the BBKA’s 150 anniversary
🐝Plus, regulars, features, recipes & letters

keep up the good work 👏

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We recently did 2000 children all over UK with childrens university 😆

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