Interested in keeping honey bees?
Many of our members have hives and share experience and equipment. However as well as being members of CSSA they are usually also members of their local beekeeping Association and the Scottish Beekeepers Association. This entitles them to insurance, courses, and a whole range of benefits. Your first point of contact regarding bee matters would be the national organisation which will give you information and links to local groups.
Relevant websites:
National http://www.scottishbeekeepers.org.uk/
Local
- Dunblane & Stirling http://www.dsbka.net/
- Edinburgh & Midlothian http://www.edinburghbeekeepers.org.uk/
- Fife www.fifebeekeepers.co.uk
Download info from here
http://www.scottishbeekeepers.org.uk/downloads/html/downloadsindex.html
Latest news
- Info from Fife Beekeepers
We recently held a successful Bee Breeding and Morphometry Course on the 27th November at Portmoak, Kinross-shire. Over 50 people attended from around Scotland despite the weather conditions. We wish to share the event with all interested beekeepers around Scotland by informing you of the link to the site on the SBAi forum which has been set up by Gavin Ramsay. Further information can be found from on-going discussions in the ‘Native Bees’ section of the same forum and a full article will appear in the January edition of the ‘Scottish Beekeeper’ written by Mike Thornley.The link is accessed by http://www.sbai.org.uk/Breeding/Please pass this information on to as many of your members as possible. We hope you will find the site useful and interesting as it contains important information about the future of Scotland’s native bees.
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/News/Releases/2010/07/19075740
Beekeepers are urged to check their hives and notify any suspicion of disease to BeesMailbox@scotland.gsi.gov.uk .
Further info on Bees can be found here
