Lock-down lecture series

Don't miss out on our lock-down online lecture series. The lectures are free and help you to increase your knowledge of beekeeping practice or hear about the latest honeybee research. Somerset BKA members are notified by email; beekeepers from across the country and further afield are welcome, too - just register for a ticket on Eventbrite.  ​

Somerset BKA's headline lecture:
​tom seeley and 'darwinian beekeeping'
7pm on saturday, february 13, 2021
In pre-covid times we held our annual Lecture Day on this Saturday in February; we're sorry not to be able to meet up in person but hope you will be able to join us for our online lecture to see scientist and author Tom Seeley speaking live from the US.  
Darwinian beekeeping is an evolutionary approach to beekeeping, one that seeks to provide managed honey bee colonies with living conditions that are as close as possible to those of wild honey bee colonies. Tom will review ways in which the living conditions of honey bees differ between wild and managed colonies and explain how we can pursue beekeeping in a way that is centred less on treating a bee colony as a honey factory and more on nurturing the lives of the bees.
Tom, a biologist and writer, is the Horace White Professor in Biology at Cornell University, where he is a member of the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior. 
Tickets are available on Eventbrite.
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