Lecture Convention

National Honey Show 2010 Programme and Lecture Convention

Venue: St George’s College, Weybridge, Surrey KT15 2QS. Disabled facilities

Lecture hall

Speakers profiles
The 2010 National Honey Show Workshops are also listed in the programme and need to be booked in advance to guarantee a place.

Admission: £12.00 (Non – Members) Purchase Membership
Members FREE Accompanied Children, 16 yrs and under, FREE

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Thursday 28th October
1:45 Doors open
2:00 Opening Ceremony Martin Smith, President, BBKA
2:30 Workshops – See Workshops or page 6 in the printed schedule
2:30 Kim Flottum - The coming of age of varietal and Artisan honey
4:00 Dr Mark Goodwin - Beekeeping in New Zealand and the Manuka story
5:00 National Honey Show AGM followed by the Annual Meeting of the National Council
6:00 Show closes

Friday 29th October
9:00 Doors open
9:30 Hans-Ulrich Thomas - How bee swarms choose a new home
10:00 Workshops – See Workshops or page 6 in the printed schedule
11:30 Kim Flottum - LL Langstroth 200 years on
2:00 Dr Mark Goodwin - Paid pollination services
2:30 Workshops – See Workshops or page 6 in the printed schedule
4:00 Jim Ryan - Managing a colony to get the best from your bees – a seasonal perspective
6:00 Show closes

Saturday 30th October
9:00 Doors open
9.30 Dr Mark Goodwin - Controlling AFB without drugs
10:00 Workshops – See Workshops or page 6 in the printed schedule
11:30 Hans-Ulrich Thomas - Bees and beekeeping in Switzerland
1:00 Dr Nigel Raine - Learning to forage in the floral supermarket
1:00 Workshops – See Workshops or page 6 in the printed schedule
2:30 Kim Flottum - Urban beekeeping – the backyard beekeeper
3:45 Presentation of Trophies and Awards
4:30 Show closes

Wax Stands

Workshops & Demonstrations

The National Honey Show has agreed that we hold a number of workshops to assist new or less experienced exhibitors in the art and skills of showing and help raise the general standard of exhibits.

The format for each workshop will be designed to identify and discuss methods of preparing and improving exhibits for the show bench with either a qualified Judge or an extremely experienced exhibitor. The times for each workshop are shown in the Programme below.

The workshops will take place in Science rooms but, in view of the limited space available, the number of attendees will be limited. This will facilitate a more informal discussion and ensure each person will receive proper attention.

All workshops are scheduled for 2 ½ hours duration.

Note workshop programme amended 2nd August (now different from the printed schedule).

Thursday 28th October starting at 2.30pm
1. Wax modelling - Martin Buckle (£5)
2. Preparing honey for the show bench - Peter Schollick
3. Microscopy course – pollen identification - Alan Kime (£5)
4. BBKA Module 3

Friday 29th October starting at 10am
5. Make your own wax flowers - Liz Duffin (£5)
6. The beekeeping ladder: from hobbyist to commercial or a bee farmer semi-commercial beekeeper - A Bee Farmer
7. Honey judging technique - Peter Matthews and Enid Brown
8. BBKA module - exam technique - Val Francis

Friday 29th October starting at 2.30pm
9. What do do with your spare wax - Kathy Summers
10. The use of Apideas for all - Terry Clare
11. Taking better BEE pictures - Clare Waring
12. BBKA module-basic exam - Tom Salter

Saturday 30th October starting at 10.00am
13. Make your own skep – part 1 - Martin Buckle (£10) FULLY BOOKED
14. What to do with your spare wax - Kathy Summers
15. Make your own wax flowers - Liz Duffin (£5)
16. BBKA general husbandry - John Hendrie

Saturday 30th October stating at 1.00pm
17. Preparing honey for the show bench - Peter Schollick
18. Make your own skep – Part 2 - Martin Buckle FULLY BOOKED
19. The use of Apideas for all - Terry Clare
20. Make your own toiletries - Dr Sara Robb (£5) FULLY BOOKED

Workshops are FREE to all paid members of the NHS or paid visitors unless otherwise quoted to cover the cost of materials.

Workshops

Booking Workshops

Anyone wishing to attend a workshop should register as soon as possible and no later than Saturday 23rd October 2010 by contacting Peter Matthews to be assured of a place on the day.

You can book either by email silverhiveNOSPAM @ btinternet.com. (remove NOSPAM and spaces or click link) or telephone 01461 205 525.

All participants who have reserved a place MUST confirm their presence a minimum of 15 minutes before the start of the workshop as failure to do so will result in the space being reallocated. All participants must be NHS members or have purchased a Day Ticket. Any additional charge for materials is shown in brackets and will be collected at the session.

Speakers Profiles

Kim Flottum

Kim Flottum has been Editor of Bee Culture magazine for 24 years. He has served as President of the local Medina County Beekeepers’ Association for over a decade, was Chairman of The Board of The Eastern Apicultural Society of North America for 8 years, and President of The Ohio State Beekeepers’ Association for 8 years. He is the author of The BackYard Beekeeper (just increased, updated and revised), and The Honey Handbook, both published by Quarry Press. He has edited two Apimondia Gold Medal books...one with Roger Morse, Honey Bee Pests, Predators and Diseases, and the other with H. Shimanuki and Ann Harmon, the 41st Edition of The ABC and XYZ of Bee Culture, both published by The A. I. Root Company. He is a regular contributor to The Beekeeper's Quarterly, and several agricultural journals in the U.S., and writes a blog for the Hearst Digital Media Company web page www.thedailygreen.com, on Colony Collapse Disorder and The Beekeeping Life. He is currently finishing another book for Quarry on the subject of Commercial beekeeping, and is beginning a project on urban beekeeping and urban gardening. He and his wife Kathy live on 2 acres in rural northeast Ohio near Cleveland, and care for several hives, a garden and a couple of cats. This is Kim's third appearance at the National.

Dr Mark Goodwin

Dr Mark Goodwin Dr Mark Goodwin has 25 years of experience in honey bee research and the New Zealand beekeeping and pollination industries. He leads a honey bee research team based in Hamilton which carries out most of the honey bee research in New Zealand. The team currently has 4 full time staff and 4 part time. The team manages about 600 hives as part of their research programme and normally use several hundred hives belonging to commercial beekeepers each year.

Mark’s research interests include honey bee behaviour, honey bee and artificial pollination of crops, American foulbrood and unfortunately more recently varroa. Mark also assists New Zealand and other countries in the development of strategies for responding to exotic pests and diseases.

Marks team also conducts research on the effect of pesticides on bees, provides disease diagnostic services for the New Zealand beekeeping Industry and conducts research on the pollination of a range off crops in New Zealand and other countries. He and his team have an extensive extension programme. This includes seminars, the production of pollination, AFB and varroa manuals as well as a varroa video. The American foulbrood manual has sold 12,000 copies worldwide and is contently being revised.

Hans Ulrich-Thomas

Hans Ulrich-Thomas Hans-Ulrich Thomas got interested and started beekeeping after Karl von Frisch was awarded the Nobel prize for his research on the bee dance in 1973. Ever since he keeps between 14 to 30 hives and reads about, observes and studies these fascinating creatures in his free time. In addition he enjoys participating in beekeeping tours all over the world, Nepal being the latest country visited.

In 2002 he passed on some of his knowledge in the form of several book chapters in the 17th edition of the ‘Swiss Bee Father’, the standard beekeeping text for beginners. Lecturing to a lay or beekeeping audience is another activity he enjoys. Complementary to this he is also a frequent article writer for beekeeping journals.

Jim Ryan

Jim Ryan has been keeping bees since 1983 (having previous experience as a child) and currently has about 30 colonies. He qualified as a lecturer in Ireland in 1989 and has lectured to Associations all over Ireland, and also in Scotland and England. He is currently Editor of An Beachaire (The Irish Beekeeper) and is also F.I.B.K.A. Archivist. He is particularly interested in Queen Rearing, the History of Beekeeping and value added hive products.

Dr Nigel Raine

Dr Nigel Raine is interested in understanding how (or indeed if) the cognitive abilities of animals are adapted to their environment. The fact that individuals within a population can differ widely in their cognitive capacities despite operating in the same environment has lead him to examine the costs and benefits of this behavioural variation. He uses bumblebees as his model system as they face complex cognitive tasks everyday when making foraging decisions about which flowers to visit in nature’s dynamic pollination market.

He has been lucky enough to work on bees for over a decade.

He read for his BA (Biological Sciences: 1994-97) and DPhil (The Pollination Ecology of a Mexican Acacia Community) at Magdalen College Oxford (1997-2001). He conducted his first postdoc with Francis Ratnieks at the University of Sheffield (2002-03), before spending 6 years working with Lars Chittka at Queen Mary, University of London (2004-2009). He has recently moved to Royal Holloway, University of London where he is Senior Lecturer in Animal Behaviour.’

Disabled Facilities

St George's College is disabled-friendly, and, except for one room at the top of the building, is accessible by wheelchairs. There are also three wheelchair-friendly toilets.

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