Nick Mawby, Author at BIBBA

Beginners or Introductory Courses

Discover how quality beginner beekeeping courses can build strong foundations, ensure accurate knowledge, and inspire confidence for future beekeepers.

Indoor Teaching

Discover effective indoor beekeeping sessions, from beginner skills to specialist topics, designed to enhance knowledge and engagement for all BKA members.

Potential Beekeepers and the Public

Guidance for Beekeeping Associations on Communication and Public EngagementBy Roger Patterson Interest in bees and beekeeping has grown dramatically in the 21st century—fuelled partly by media stories and well-intentioned but often inaccurate messaging. While much of this publicity is outside the control of beekeepers, ignoring it is unwise. If beekeepers do not provide clear, authoritative…

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Potential Beekeepers and the Public Guidance for Beekeeping Associations on Communication and Public EngagementBy Roger Patterson Interest in bees and beekeeping has grown dramatically in the 21st century—fuelled partly by media stories and well-intentioned but often inaccurate messaging. While much of this publicity is outside the control of beekeepers, ignoring it is unwise. If beekeepers…

Toolkit-Potential beekeepers and the public

Possibly fuelled by media activity, there has been great interest in bees and beekeeping in the 21st century, although in some respects it may not be in the best interests of the craft, but perhaps unwise to ignore it without response. Some of the publicity suggests that bees are in trouble and all you have…

Toolkit – General Beekeeping

General beekeeping This is a list of sound reliable resources that is collated to help teachers, apiary managers and BKA officials to teach beekeeping at all levels. It is part of the BIBBA teaching toolkit that we hope will save you time searching and filtering information. All items are in the public domain, so available…

Toolkit – Origins of Honey Bees

Origins of honey bees It is easy to think there is no need to know the origins of honey bees, but having a basic understanding will help explain why bees may have different characteristics. Worldwide, there are ten species of honey bee, but there is only one, Apis mellifera, called the Western Honey bee, that…

Toolkit- Overview

Overview Beekeeping is fun! This is a well-known saying of mine and how I sign books. The craft has been a source of great enjoyment for me for over 60 years and I try to encourage others to enjoy it too. It is a hobby for most of us, often relief from something else, where…

Toolkit – Teaching

Teaching material and presenting it It is important that what you teach is good and sound. There may be a temptation, perhaps by less experienced teachers, to simply copy and paste from elsewhere, assuming it is reliable, especially if the same or similar is in several places. The problem with that is that others have…