2024 Newsletters

December 2024 Newsletter – Issue 22

  • Welcome
  • Dates for your diary, and Sicamm
  • Links to our Zoom recordings
  • 2025 Membership fees
  • Native honey bees in the Orkneys
  • Different approaches to queen rearing
  • A new hornet species in Europe: Southern giant hornet, Vespa soror

September 2024 Newsletter – Issue 21

  • Welcome
  • Members Chat Zoom Meeting – 4th September
  • Making the Conservation of Scottish Dark Honey Bees Work – Gavin Ramsay
  • Dr John Anderson Award – Andrew Abrahams
  • A Squeaky Wheel – Sue Spence
  • SNHBS Visit to Colonsay – Colin Campbell
  • The Heather Bee (Colletes succinctus) – Gavin Ramsay
  • Book Review: Raising Resilient Bees by E&J McEwen – John Durkacz

May 2024 Newsletter – Issue 20

  • Welcome
  • Weather, Climate, and Bees
  • Ben Bellamy – an Appreciation
  • The Bearded Mining Bee – Andrena barbilabris
  • Book Review: The Joy of Bees – Paolo Fontana