NEWS FROM FBKA

Read about  FBKA activities as reported by Ethel Irvine by clicking on button below (Autumn / Early Winter 2024 report is now available).

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We also have news on our Wild Bee project being run by Dave Bolton.

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News from FBKA:

​Happy New Year everyone and we hope you had a peaceful Christmas.

We are having our AGM and Christmas dinner at the Enniskillen Hotel at 7.00 on Thursday 30th January 2025. Please make your payment using the details provided by our Treasurer and send him your menu selections as soon as you can.

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Honey Bee Watch have sent an open invite to their next online event: "#4 Spreading the Buzz: Communicating and Recruiting for Citizen Science." where 3 experts share their experiences as well as hope to encourage participants for Citizen Science. Ordinary citizens have been participating in and contributing to scientific research for years. Citizen Science projects like this tap into peoples’ interest and ability to add to research that scientists cannot do alone. In this case, help is needed to locate and monitor free-living honey bee colonies in order to more better understand how and why they survive via natural selection.

Please join Carolina Doran (European Citizen Science Association), Nathalie Steinhauer (Oregon State University and the former Bee Informed Partnership), and Adelaide Valentini (Resilient Bee Project) on Thursday, 19 December (16–18h GMT), to explore these topics and more. It's free and open to all. 

For more info, visit the Events page on https://www.honeybeewatch.com/ and scroll down to #4. Registration is via this quick-and-easy online form. (Note: All talks are recorded in case you can't attend. You can sign up for previous events to receive links to those videos.)

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It will soon be time for us to resume our monthly association meetings.

• We are attempting to set aside more time at the end for people to mingle and have a chat over a cup of coffee. This will hopefully give us a chance to ask any questions we have and gain advice from more experienced beekeepers on a one to one basis so I would urge you all to attend in person. Of course, the meetings will be available over zoom for those unable to make it.

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FBKA Honorary Membership Awards

This Award recognizes individual member's outstanding contributions, dedication and commitment to beekeeping.

 

Previous FBKA Honorary Membership Award Winners are:

 

Howard McConnell     2017

Ethel Irvine                  2018

Hugh Mannix              2019

Joe Greene                 2019

Andrew Elliott              2020

Brian Dane                  2022

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2019 First award of Preliminary Beekeeper of the Year was presented to Mary Brady.

2020 Preliminary Beekeeper of the Year award went to John McGrath.
2020-2021 Preliminary Beekeeper of the Year award went to Emma Irwin.

Roisin Carey was the  ‘Beginner of the Year’ for 2022.

Beginners plaque 2022-2023 was shared by Wendy Buchanan and Kelley Harris.

Beginners plaque 2024 goes to Joanna Langham.

Congratulations to all!