Wednesday, 3 December 2025 at 7:30pm, London Time.
We are delighted to welcome back Professor Tom Seeley, this time to talk about managing honey bee colonies in a way that is closer to nature. The goal is to harmonise beekeeping methods with the natural history of Apis mellifera through the seasons allowing full use of their adaptations evolved over 30 million years.
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We are grateful to the author Andrew Abrahams and the editor of the American Bee Journal for permission to use this article.
Readers might ask, why on earth spend much of a lifetime conserving what most beekeepers perceive as an aggressive, unproductive race of honey bee — a race perhaps left behind by history? I was fortunate, often by chance rather than grand design, to gather up some pure remnants of Scotland’s native honey bee (Apis mellifera mellifera) in the late 1970s and since then I have managed over decades to improve this population in the isolation of the remote island of Colonsay, which lies 16 miles off the west coast of Scotland (see https://colonsay.org.uk).
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